Tailen Hsing, Professor

Office: Blocker 406D Phone: (409) 845-3106
E-mail: thsing@stat.tamu.edu

I am currently interested in the following research areas:

• Bioinformatics: This is an area that I am trying to know more about. We have an exciting Bioinformatics Training Program in the department. If you have a doctorate degree in mathematics, physics, engineering or statistics, and is a permanent resident of the U.S., you are qualified to apply for a traineeship.
• Extreme value theory: I wrote my Ph.D. thesis in this area. My advisor in North Carolina was Ross Leadbetter. I still come back to it now and then, the most recent example being a paper with Holger Rootzen on the longest edge of a minimal spanning tree.
• Functional data analysis: I am working with Ron Macfarlane of the Department of Chemistry on the analysis of lipoprotein density profile data. There are many exciting new problems in this area.
• Processes with long memory: My joint work in this area with Hwai-Chung Ho and Wei-Biao Wu shows that the asymptotic distribution of many U-statistics based on long-memory linear processes can be analyzed through a decomposition akin to the Hoeffding decomposition.

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