Faculty Profiles

Dr. Qiang Zhao

Faculty Advisor, Table Tennis Club - Texas State University. September 2024 - Present.

Member, Budget Committee. August 2023 - January 2025.
Chair/Member, Statistics Qualifying Exam Committee. January 2013 - January 2025.
Chair, 2025 Tenure-track Assistant Professor Hiring Committee - Probability. September 2024 - January 27, 2025.

Other, Submitted 13 recommendation letters for 3 students; Job reference for 2 students. January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024.
Creating comprehensive exams for Math 5305. December 2024 - December 16, 2024.
Member, Assisting writing proposals for courses: STAT 5305, 5345, 5376B, 7325, and 7335. September 2024 - October 4, 2024.
Volunteer, Substituting Teaching for Dr. Sorto. October 3, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Mathematical Foundations of Computing. July 2024 - August 2024.
Member, Program and Curriculum Committee. September 2016 - August 2024.
Writer, Writing course proposals for STAT 5390 and STAT 5325. September 2024 - August 4, 2024.
Faculty, Grading for tests of two MathCAT tutors. May 31, 2024 - June 3, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Applied Statistics. January 2024 - April 2024.
Volunteer, 2024 Spring Awards Ceremony. April 26, 2024.
Member, Addressing external reviews' concerns for the PhD program - Statistics concentration. January 24, 2024.

Recommendation letter writer, Wrote 29 recommendation letters for 5 students. January 2023 - December 2023.
Chair, 2024 Tenure-track Assistant Professor Hiring Committee. March 2023 - December 31, 2023.
Chair, Budget Committee. August 2022 - August 2023.
Member, Lecturer Hiring Committee. February 2022 - August 2023.
Other, Department representative at the University Curriculum Committee Meeting. August 3, 2023.
Review new course proposals, Reviewed new course proposals for Math 7375F, 7375G, and 7375J. July 2023.
Helper with using CIM system, Helped Drs. Keller and Tanaka with CIM questions. July 2023.

Member, Special Opportunity Hires Search Committee. 2022.
Other, Wrote recommendation letters and/or acted as a reference for 11 students. 2022.
Awards Presenter, 2022 Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematics. April 29, 2022 - 2022.
Other, Department representative at the University Curriculum Committee Meeting. February 11, 2022 - 2022.
Volunteer, Substituting Teaching for Lab instructor (twice). August 24, 2022 - November 9, 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, Statistics in Medicine. May 2021 - October 2022.
Other, Providing two rides from Airport to San Marcos to REU students. June 9, 2019 - June 12, 2022.
Other, Faculty Respondent during 2022 International Research Conference for Graduate Students. April 14, 2022.
Member, Help Writing a "Big Initiative" White Paper Proposal. January 2022 - February 2022.

Wrote Letters for Colleague, Students, and REU Mentees, Wrote 55 Letters for 9 Individuals (Colleague, Students, and REU Mentees). January 2021 - December 2021.
Assist Colleague on New Course Proposal, Assist Colleague on New Course Proposal. July 2021 - October 2021.
Reviewer / Referee, SIAM Undergraduate Research Online. June 2021 - August 2021.
Member, Statistics Hiring Committee. September 2020 - March 2021.
Grading An Honor's Paper for Other University, St. Mary's University. February 2021.

Member, Statistics Hiring Committee. 2019 - 2020.
Member (Chair of Statistics Sub-committee), PhD in Math Proposal Committee. September 2019 - 2020.
Editorial Review Board Member, Pacific Journal of Applied Mathematics. 2006 - 2020.
Wrote 7 Letters of Reference for 5 Students, Wrote 7 Letters of Reference for 5 Students. January 2020 - December 2020.
Poster Judge, 2020 ICSA Symposium. December 11, 2020 - December 14, 2020.
Poster Judge, WiSE 2020 Conference. March 6, 2020.
Volunteer, Substitute for Colleague's Teaching. February 11, 2020.

Wrote 10 letters of reference for 4 students, Wrote 10 letters of reference for 4 students. January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019.
Helper for presenting recognitions, 2019 Mathematics Awards Day. April 26, 2019.
Chair, Hiring Committee. May 15, 2018 - February 2019.

Provided statistical assistance to colleague/program, Provided statistical assistance to colleague and program. 2018.
Chair, Math 2328 Textbook Committee. 2017 - 2018.
Editorial Review Board Member, International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics. 2015 - 2018.
Wrote letters of reference for 10 students, Wrote letters of reference for 10 students. January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018.
Volunteer, Revised SACS Assessment Questions for Math 5345. December 15, 2018.
Observed Classroom Teaching for Colleague. October 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Applied Statistics. August 8, 2018 - September 26, 2018.
Volunteer, Revised the Departmental Syllabus for Math 2328. June 2018.
Member, Lecture Review/Renewal Committee. November 2015 - May 2018.
Math Department Representative, University Curriculum Committee Meeting. January 26, 2018.
Math Representative, University Curriculum Committee meeting. January 26, 2018.

Reference, Wrote letters of references for 4 students and colleague. 2017.
Member, Hiring Committee for Position in Mathematics or Statistics. May 12, 2017 - December 2017.
Moderator of a parallel session, 2107 Math Department Graduate Open House. November 10, 2017.
Math representative, Construction Science Management program accreditation visit. October 16, 2017.
Volunteer, Update Math 2328 departmental syllabus and Scope and Sequence. October 2017 - October 6, 2017.
Member, For determining departmental external evaluators list for two colleagues. June 8, 2017 - July 14, 2017.
Peer, Provided statistical assistance to peer. July 7, 2017 - July 10, 2017.
Graduate Marshal, May 2017 Graduation Ceremony. May 12, 2017.
Chair, Math 2328 Textbook Committee. 2017 - March 29, 2017.
Author, Scope and Sequence for Math 3305 and Math 4305. February 2017 - March 22, 2017.
Substitute, Substituted 2 Math 2328 classes for Dr. Yang Liu. March 2, 2017 - March 7, 2017.
Reviewer / Referee, Statistics and Probability Letters. January 18, 2017 - March 6, 2017.
Data Provider, Shared data used in published article with peer. February 8, 2017.
Member, Statistics Expedited Hiring Committee. December 2016 - January 2017.
Data Provider, Shared data used in published article with peer. January 23, 2017.

Reference, Wrote letters of reference for 8 students. 2016.
Helper, The 7th Annual Math Department Symposium and Recruitment Fair. November 2016.
Substitute, HON2380J Apply Statistics to Your World. October 4, 2016.
Reviewer / Referee, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods. 2016 - September 2016.
Colleague, Observed classroom teaching of 3 colleagues. April 2016 - September 2016.
Promotion & Tenure External Reviewer, Penn State - Harrisburg. June 2016 - August 2016.
Representative, Personnel Committee. July 2016.
Reviewer / Referee, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods. 2016 - June 2016.
Providing Data Set to Peer, Providing Data Set to Peer. 2016 - June 2016.
Chair, Math 2326 Textbook Committee. March 2016 - April 2016.
Helper, Picking Up Job Candidate. February 2016.