Wei Biao Wu

Wei Biao Wu is a Chinese-born statistician. He is a professor of statistics at the University of Chicago.

Education and career Wu attended Fudan University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1997. He went on to the University of Michigan for graduate studies, receiving his PhD in 2001 under the supervision of Michael Woodroofe and Sándor Csörgő. He was hired at the University of Chicago shortly after completing his PhD, and has remained there since.

Wu is best-known for his work on dependence, in which the main new idea is to interpret random processes as physical systems, and to examine coefficients that would have physical meaning. According to Google Scholar, this work has been cited over 350 times. Wu has written over 100 papers.

Wu has more than 20 students and their descendants working in academia.

Most-cited publications His most cited article, WB Wu, Nonlinear system theory: Another look at dependence in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) 2005 Oct 4;102(40):14150-4. (open access) has been cited 485 times, according to Google Scholar. Wu WB, Pourahmadi M. Nonparametric estimation of large covariance matrices of longitudinal data. Biometrika. 2003 Dec 1;90(4):831-44. (open access) has been cited 341 times, according to Google Scholar