Guanyu Hu
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Probability
Location: C439 Wells Hall
Email: huguanyu@msu.edu
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Bio
## Research Interests * **Statistical Theory & Methodologies**: Bayesian Nonparametric, Spatial Point Process, Bayesian Computation, Causal Inference, Big Data Inference, and Survival Analysis. * **Statistical Applications**: Sports Analytics, Clinical Trials, Spatial Omics, Spatial Econometrics, and Educational and Psychological Measurement. ## Education * Ph.D. in Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (2017) * M.S. in Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (2016) * B.E. in Statistics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China (2014) ## Professional Activities * Chair of ASA Statistics in Sports Section 2024 * Program Chair of ISBA-EAC 2023-Present * Associate Editors for Biometrics, AoAS, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Statistics and its Interface, and the New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science ## Honors and Awards * Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2022 * IMS New Researcher Travel Award 2021 * ICSA China Conference Junior Researcher Award 2019
Selected Publications
- Hu, G., Chen, M-H., Ma, Z.. (2025) Flexible Bayesian Spatial Modeling for Unknown Missing Data Mechanism in Survey Analysis: an Application to the Chinese General Society Survey. Annals of Applied Statistics, 19(2): 1714-1733
- Hu, G., Geng, J., Xue, Y., Sang, H. (2023) Bayesian Spatial Homogeneity Pursuit of Functional Data: an Application to the U.S. Income Distribution. Bayesian Analysis, 18 (2), 579-605.
- Pan, T., Shen, W., Davis-Stober, C. P., Hu, G.. (2024) A Bayesian nonparametric approach for handling item and examinee heterogeneity in assessment data. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 77, 196-211
- Ren, Y., Zhu, X., Lv, X., Hu, G.. (2024) Graphical Assistant Grouped Network Autoregression Model: a Bayesian Nonparametric Recourse. Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 42:1, 49-63.
- Yin, F., Jiao, J., Yan, J., Hu, G.. (2022) Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Point Processes with Spatial Homogeneity: A Spatial Analysis of NBA Shot Locations. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 25523-25551.