2025-11: Chao's PhD student Kaizhou Lei successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Advanced Statistical Methods for Heterogeneous and High-Dimensional Data on Alzheimer's Disease Studies".
2025-10: Chao was appointed as a faculty fellow with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia.
2025-10: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Bayesian monotone single-index quantile regression model with bounded response and misaligned functional covariates" was published in Biometrics.
2025-09: Chao's PhD student Zeliang Sun received the Graduate School Doctoral Fellows Award from the University of Georgia.
2025-08: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Subgroup Mediation Analysis" was published in Stat.
2025-08: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "S-GMAS: Genome-Wide Mediation Analysis With Brain Subcortical Shape Mediators" was published in Human Brain Mapping.
2025-07: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Statistical Learning on Manifold-valued Data with Applications in Medical Imaging Studies".
2025-07: Chao's PhD student Xiaohe Chen successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Statistical Learning Methods for Biomedical Data".
2025-06: Chao’s co-author paper "Beta regression model for bounded functional response" was published in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.
2025-05: Chao’s co-author paper "Functional partially linear single-index model with beta distribution" was published in Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods.
2025-05: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan received the First Place of the Case Studies and Applications Category in the 2025 Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference Student Paper Award competition.
2025-05: Chao gave an invited talk "Patch-wise Intensity Mapping for Individualized Brain Abnormality Detection in Alzheimer’s Disease" at the 2025 Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference.
2025-04: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Single-Index Measurement Error Jump Regression Model in Alzheimer's Disease Studies" was published in Statistics in Medicine.
2025-04: Chao’s corresponding-author pre-print paper "AD-GPT: Large Language Models in Alzheimer's Disease" was published in arXiv.
2025-03: Chao was appointed as a courtesy faculty member with the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia.
2025-03: Chao was appointed as an affiliate faculty member with the Precision One Health Initiative at the University of Georgia.
2025-02: Chao was appointed as an affiliate with the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia.
2025-01: Chao’s co-author pre-print paper "Large Language Models for Bioinformatics" was published in arXiv.
2025-01: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan received the First Place Award in the 2024 JSM ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Award competition.
2024-12: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Confounder adjustment in single index function-on-scalar regression model" was published in Electronic Journal of Statistics.
2024-12: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Distribution-on-scalar Single-index Quantile Regression Model for Handling Tumor Heterogeneity" was published in Technometrics.
2024-12: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan received the winner of the 2024 Ermine M. Owenby Travel Award.
2024-12: Chao's PhD student Shengxian Ding received the winner of the 2024 Ralph A. Bradley Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
2024-11: Chao’s corresponding-author paper "Shape Mediation Analysis in Alzheimer's Disease Studies" was published in Statistics in Medicine.
2024-10: Chao’s co-author paper "Efficient Distributed Transfer Learning for Large‐Scale Gaussian Graphic Models" was published in Stat.
2024-10: Chao’s co-author pre-print paper "GP-GPT: Large Language Model for Gene-Phenotype Mapping" was published in arXiv.
2024-10: Chao's PhD student Anisha Das successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Advanced Statistical Methods in Imaging Genetics Studies".
2024-08: Chao joined the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Georgia as an assistant professor.
2024-06: Chao's PhD student Miyeon Yeon successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Mediation Analysis in Neuroimaging and Geospatial Studies".
2024-06: Chao's PhD student Harshita Dogra successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Functional Regression Models for Multi-Site Imaging Data Integration".
2024-05: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan received the winner of the 2024 Yongyuan and Anna Li Presentation Award.
2024-04: Chao gave an invited talk "Exploring Aging through Statistical Shape Analysis in Imaging Studies" at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Arizona.
2024-03: Chao's PhD student Shengxian Naomi Ding successfully defended her dissertation research entitled "Advanced Functional Regression Models in Biomedical Data Analysis".
2024-03: Chao gave an invited talk "Exploring Aging through Statistical Shape Analysis in Imaging Studies" at the Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Division, Penn State University.
2024-03: Chao’s co-author rejoinder paper "Rejoinder on: Shape-based functional data analysis" was published in Test.
2024-02: Chao gave an invited talk "Exploring Aging through Statistical Shape Analysis in Imaging Studies" at the Department of Biostatistics, Yale University.
2024-01: Chao's PhD student Miyeon Yeon received the Honorable Mention in the 2024 ASA Mental Health Statistics Section Student Paper Award competition.
2024-01: Chao received the FSU Summer Research Support (SRS) Award "Identification and Evaluation of Subgroups in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Using Longitudinal Multimodal Image Data from Multiple Studies": Role: PI.
2024-01: Chao’s equal-contributed first-author paper "Merging or Ensembling: Integrative Analysis in Multiple Neuroimaging Studies" was published in Biometrics.
2024-01: Chao offered a new graduate course STA 5327 Statistical Inference.
