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Dr. Qiang Zhao

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics
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Biography and education

Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2004.

Research Interests

  • Pan, Xi (Principal), Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Co-Principal), Westerberg, Carmen E (Supporting), Zhao, Qiang (Supporting). Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on Cognitive Function in Firefighters in Central Texas, Texas State University, $30000. (Funded: 2023 - 2024). Grant.
  • Yang, Yong (Principal), Keller, Thomas M (Co-Principal), Sun, Shuying (Supporting), Zhao, Qiang (Supporting), Dochtermann, Anton (Supporting), Oh, Suho (Supporting). REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, NSF, Federal, $305417. (Submitted: August 2021, Funded: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
  • Dochtermann, Anton M (Supporting), Keller, Thomas M (Co-Principal), Oh, Suho (Supporting), Sun, Shuying (Supporting), Yang, Yong (Principal), Zhao, Qiang (Supporting). REU Site: Algebra, Combinatorics, and Statistics, NSF, Federal, $269696. (Submitted: August 18, 2017, Funded: September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Zhao, Q. (2015, January). Package “glrt”  (version 2.0). USA: Comprehensive R Archive Network. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/glrt/glrt.pdf
  • Zhao, X., Duan, R., Zhao, Q., & Sun, J. (2013). A New Class of Generalized Log Rank Tests for Interval-censored Failure Time Data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 60, 123–131. Retrieved from www.elsevier.com/locate/csda
  • Zhao, Q. (2012). gLRT - A New R Package for Analyzing Interval-censored Survival Data. In Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications (pp. 377–396). USA: CRC Press.
  • Zhao, Q. (2012). Disease Survival Rate. In Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 311–312). USA: Salem Press.
  • Gao, B. J., Griffith, O. L., Ester, M., Xiong, H., Zhao, Q., & Jones, S. J. M. (2012). On the Deep Order-preserving Submatrix Problem: A Best-effort Approach. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 24(2), 309–325. Retrieved from https://www.computer.org/web/tkde
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Faculty. September 2006 - June 2026
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support (from Lawrence Warren). July 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Certificate of Recognition from Siemens Foundation. January 28, 2013
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mathworks Research Mentor Recognition, Texas Mathworks. 2010
  • Award / Honor Nominee: 2009 Dean's Nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Science, Texas State University. 2009
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  1. Other

    Table Tennis Club - Texas State University

  2. Member

    Budget Committee

  3. Other

    Statistics Qualifying Exam Committee

  4. Chair

    2025 Tenure-track Assistant Professor Hiring Committee - Probability

  5. Other

    Submitted 13 recommendation letters for 3 students; Job reference for 2 students.

  6. Creating comprehensive exams for Math 5305

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