Jiaxin Hu

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison working with Prof. Miaoyan Wang. My research interests lie in the intersection of statistics and machine learning. Currently, I am working on higher-order tensor methods with application in networks.

Prior to the Ph.D. program, I received my Master's degree in Statistics from UW-Madison in 2020 and Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Wuhan University in 2019.

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Publications
blind-date Large-scale multiway clustering with seeded clustering
Jiaxin Hu
2nd Conference of Parismony and Learning (CPAL), 2025
CPAL
blind-date A spectral framework to map QTLs affecting joint differential networks of gene co-expression
Jiaxin Hu, Jesse N. Weber, Lauren E. Fuess, Natalie C. Steinel, Daniel I. Bolnick, Miaoyan Wang
PLOS Computational Biology, In press
bioRxiv
blind-date Multiway spherical clustering via degree-corrected tensor block models
Jiaxin Hu and Miaoyan Wang
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023
Short version at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2022
Journal / arXiv / AISTATS / Software

  • This work wins Best Student Paper Award -- honorable mention from the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2022.
  • Part of the work is accepted into NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning.

blind-date Generalized tensor decomposition with features on multiple modes
Jiaxin Hu, Chanwoo Lee, and Miaoyan Wang
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2021
Journal / NeurIPS Workshop / arXiv / Software

  • This work wins Best Student Paper Award from the Statistical Computing and Graphics Section of American Statistical Association (ASA), 2021.
  • Part of the work is accepted into NeurIPS 2020 Second Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences.

Professional activities
  • Invited Session Chair for JSM 2022, 2021 and NESS 2022.
  • Reviewer for AISTATS, SII, CSDA, Statistics in Bioscience
Awards
  • Honorable Mention Graduate Course Teaching Assistant (TA) Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
  • Student Research Grants Competition Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022
  • Best Student Paper Award -- honorable mention from the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of ASA, 2022.
  • Best Student Paper Award from the Statistical Computing and Graphics Section of ASA, 2021
  • Exchange & Visiting International Student Academic Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
  • Second-Class Scholarship for Excellent Students (top 10%),Wuhan University, 2016, 2017, 2018
Teaching
  • Discussion TA of STAT 850 Theory and Application of Regression and ANOVA, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Discussion TA of STAT 601 Statistical Method I, Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and Spring 2021, 2025.
  • Discussion TA of STAT 679 Statistics: Foundations & Regression and Big Data, Summer 2021.
  • Discussion TA of STAT 324 Statistics: Introductory Applied Statistics for Engineers, Summer 2022.

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