Curriculum Vitae

 
 

Academic Degrees


Institution                                  Major                                        Degree    Year


University of South Carolina     Statistics                                   PhD        2011

University of South Carolina     Mathematics                             MS          2007

Nanjing University, China         Computational Mathematics     BS          2004


Professional Experience


2011 - present              Assistant Professor, Division of Stat, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics,                      

                                     Florida International University.

2008 -2010                  Research Assistant, Dept of Statistics, University of South Carolina.

2007-2008, 2010 Fall  Teaching Assistant, Dept of Statistics, University of South Carolina.

2004 -2007                  Teaching Assistant, Dept of Mathematics, University of South Carolina.


Publications


  1. 1.Edsel A. Pena*, Wensong Wu*, Walter W. Piegorsch, Ronald W. West, Lingling An.  (2016). Model Selection and Estimation with Quantal-Response Data in Benchmark Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis. In press. *These authors contribute equally.


  1. 2.Annia Mesa, Mitch Fernandez, Wensong Wu, Giri Narasimhan, Eric L. Greidinger, DeEtta K. Mills. (2016). Can SLE classification rules be effectively applied to diagnose unclear SLE cases? Lupus. In press. pii: 0961203316655212. Epub ahead of print.


  1. 3.Marwan Tabbara, Juan C Duque, Laisel Martinez, Luis A Escobar, Wensong Wu, Yue Pan, Natasha Fernandez, Omaida C. Velazquez, Edgar A. Jaimes, Loay H Salman, and Roberto Vazquez-Padron. (2016). Pre-existing and Postoperative Intimal Hyperplasia and Arteriovenous Fistula Outcomes. American Journal of Kidney Disease. 68(3):455-464


  1. 4.Edsel A. Pena, Joshua D. Habiger, and Wensong Wu. (2015). Classes of multiple decision functions strongly controlling FWER and FDR. Metrika. Volume 78, Issue 5, pp 563-595. DOI: 10.1007/s00184-014-0516-6


  1. 5.Anas Salah Eddin, Jin Wang, Wensong Wu, Saman Sargolzaei, Bruce Bjornson, Richard A Jones, William D Gaillard, and Malek Adjouadi. (2014). The Effects of Pediatric Epilepsy on a Language Connectome. Human Brain Mapping. 35(12):5996-6010.


  1. 6.Jin Wang, Xiaozhen You, Wensong Wu, Magno R. Guillen, Mercedes Cabreriza, Joseph Sullivan, Elizabeth Donner, Bruce Bjornson, William D. Gailard, and Malek Adjouadi. (2014). Classification of fMRI Patterns - A Study of the Language Network Segregation in Pediatric Localization Related Epilepsy. Human Brain Mapping, Apr; 35(4):1446-60. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22265


  1. 7.Wensong Wu and Edsel A. Pena. (2013). Bayes Multiple Decision Functions. Electronic Journal of Statistics, Volume 7, 1272-1300. DOI:10.1214/13-EJS813.


  1. 8.Annia Mesa, Jason A. Somarelli, Wensong Wu, Laisel Martinez, Melissa B. Blom, Eric L. Greidinger, and Rene J. Herrera. (2013). Differential immunoglobulin class-mediated responses to components of the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Mixed Connective Tissue Disease. Lupus, 22(13): 1371-1381. DOI: 10.1177/0961203313508\\444.


  1. 9.Walter W. Piegorsch, Lingling An, Alissa A. Wickens, R. Webster West, Edsel A. Pena, and Wensong Wu. (2013). Information-theoretic model-averaged benchmark dose analysis in environmental risk assessment. Environmetrics, 24(3), 143–157. DOI: 10.1002/env.2201.


  1. 10.R. Webster West, Walter W. Piegorsch,  Edsel A. Pena,  Lingling An,  Wensong Wu,  Alissa A. Wickens,  Hui Xiong, and Wenhai Chen. (2012). The Impact of Model Uncertainty on Benchmark Dose Estimation. Environmetrics Special Issue: Modern quantitative methods for environmental risk assessment, 23, 706–716. DOI: 10.1002/env.2180.


  1. 11.Edsel A. Pena, Joshua D. Habiger, and Wensong Wu. (2011). Power-Enhanced Multiple Decision Functions Controlling Family-Wise Error and False Discovery Rates. Annals of Statistics, 39(1), 556-583. DOI:10.1214/10-AOS844.


  1. 12.Edsel A. Pena, Joshua D. Habiger, and Wensong Wu. (2011). Supplement to “Power-enhanced multiple decision functions controlling family-wise error and false discovery rates”. Annals of Statistics (to appear as online supplement). DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS844SUPP.


  1. 13.Xiangli Cui, Yu Jin, Deepak Poudyal, Alexander A. Chumanevich, Tia Davis, Anthony Windust, Anne Hofseth, Wensong Wu, Joshua Habiger, Edsel Pena, Patricia Wood, Mitzi Nagarkatti, Prakash S. Nagarkatti, and Lorne Hofseth. (2010). Mechanistic insight into the ability of American ginseng to suppress colon cancer associated with colitis. Carcinogenesis, 31(10), 1734--1741. DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgq163.


  1. 14.Paul F Meeh, Christopher L Farrell, Randal Croshaw, Hampton Crimm, Samantha K Miller, Dora Oroian, Sangeeta Kowli, Jinyu Zhu, Wayne Carver, Wensong Wu, Edsel Pena, and Phillip J Buckhaults. (2009). A gene expression classifier of node positive colon cancer. Neoplasia, 11(10), 1074--1083.


  1. 15.Lili Ju, Wensong Wu, and Weidong Zhao. (2009). Adaptive finite volume methods for steady convection-diffusion equations with mesh optimization. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Volume: 11, Number: 3, pp. 669--690.



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