Zheng (Tracy) Ke

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University. Office: Science Center 714. Tel:  617-496-8318. Email: zke@fas.harvard.edu

Announcement: Recently, my old website experienced a technical issue. I am making slow progresses to move contents to the new site. If you would like to download the MAStat data set, please visit this GitHub-MADStat page or Harvard Dataverse. The data and code of my other projects can be downloaded at GitHub. For a list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.

Academic Positions

  • 2023-present: Associate Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
  • 2018-2023: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
  • 2014-2018: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Sloan Research Fellow, 2023
  • IMS Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize, 2021
  • ASA Gottfried E. Noether Young Scholar Award, 2020
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2020

Editorial Services

  • Electronic Journal of Statistics (2022-present)
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association (2023-present)
  • Statistica Sinica (2022-present)

Research Interests

  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Machine learning
  • Social network analysis
  • Text mining
  • Bioinformatics and statistical genetics

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