2025-12: Chao's PhD student Yuanyao Tan received the winner of the 2025 Ralph A. Bradley Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
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.
