I will start as an Assistant Professor in STOR and SDSS at UNC-Chapel Hill, from Jan 2026.

Before joining UNC, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics at UC Davis, working with Professors Hans-Georg Müller and Jane-Ling Wang. I got my Ph.D. in Statistics from Peking University in 2022, under the supervision of Professor Fang Yao.

My current research interests include:

Theory and methodology for:

• Statistical modeling and inference for object data, including but not limited to distributions, trees, and compositional data
• Functional data with complex structure, including discretely observed and non-Euclidean data
• Learning theory, generalization bound for deep neural network
• Model agnostic method and its applications in real-world dataset, e.g., anomalies detection
• Dynamical systems and its applications in information retrieval

Application areas:

• Longitudinal/Compositional data in biological and medical sciences
• Brain image data (MRI, fMRI)

Contact

• Office: 339 Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
• Email: hzh[at]unc[dot]edu