Associate Professor of Statistics

Ph.D. in Statistics, Purdue University, 2003

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Research Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Functional data analysis
• Geophysics

Honors and Appointments

• Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008)
• Elected member of International Statistical Institute (2010)
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2011)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011)
• Associate Editor, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2009-present
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011-present
• Review Editor, Frontiers in Genetics, 2011-present
• Steering Committee member, Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium, 2010-present

Selected Publications

• Zamdborg, L., Ma, P.(2009) Discovery of protein-DNA interactions by penalized multivariate regression, Nucleic Acids Research, 37(16), 5246-5254.
• Leung, Y. F. *, Ma, P.*, Link, B. A. and Dowling, J.(2008) Factorial microarray analysis of zebrafish retinal development , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (35), 12909-12914.(* joint first authors)
• Ma, P. and Zhong, W.(2008) Penalized clustering of large scale functional data with multiple covariates, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103 (482), 625-636.
• van der Hilst, R.D., de Hoop. M.V., Wang, P., Shim,S.-H., Ma, P., Tenorio, L. (2007) Seismo-stratigraphy and thermal structure of Earth's core-mantle boundary region, Science, 315(5820), 1813-1817. [Supplementary material]
  • [Science Perspective]
  • [National Geographic]
  • [Live Science]
• Leung, Y.F. *, Ma, P.*, and Dowling, J. (2007) Gene expression profiling of zebrafish embryonic retinal pigment epithelium in vivo, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 48(2), 881-890.(* joint first author)
• Ma, P., Wang, P., Tenorio, L., de Hoop, M. V., and van der Hilst, R. D. (2007) Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized Radon transform: II- statistical inference of singularities, Journal of Geophysical Research , in press.
• Wang, P., de Hoop, M. V., van der Hilst, R. D., Ma, P., and Tenorio, L. (2006) Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized Radon transform: 1. Construction of image gathers, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B12304, doi:10.1029/2005JB004241.
• Yuan, G.C. *, Ma, P.*, Zhong, W., and Liu, J. S. (2006) Statistical assessment of the global regulatory role of histone acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Genome Biology, 7(8):R70. [Supplementary material] (* joint first author)
• Ma, P.*, Castillo-Davis, C.*, Zhong, W., and Liu, J. S. (2006) A data-driven clustering method for time course gene expression data, Nucleic Acids Research, 34(4), 1261-1269. [Software](* joint first author)
• Zhong, W.*, Zeng, P.*, Ma , P.*, Liu, J. S., and Zhu, Y. (2005) RSIR: regularized sliced inverse regression for motif discovery, Bioinformatics, 21(22), 4169-4175. [Software](* joint first author)
• Gu, C. and Ma, P. (2005) Optimal smoothing in nonparametric mixed-effect models, Annals of Statistics, 33(3), 1357-1379. [Software]
• Gu, C. and Ma, P. (2005) Generalized nonparametric mixed-effect models, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14(2), 485-504. [Software]
• Vio, R., Ma, P., Zhong, W., Nagy, J., Tenorio, L., and Wamsteker, W. (2004) Estimation of regularization parameters in multiple-image deblurring, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 423, 1179--1186.