Annie Qu – CARAMS

Professor, Statistics

University of California, Irvine (USA)

Email: anniequ@illinois.edu
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, Recommender Systems, Natural Language Processing, Network Data, Personalized Medicine, Longitudinal/Correlated Data Analysis, Missing Data, High-dimensional Data, Model Selection, Non-parametric Models, Biostatistics

Achievements: Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding unstructured large-scale data. She works to develop cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms for text sentiment analysis, automatic tagging and summarisation, recommender systems, tensor imaging data, and network data analyses for complex heterogeneous data. Her work helps extracting essential information from large-volume high-dimensional data. Before joining UCI, Qu was Data Science Founder Professor of Statistics and the Director of the Illinois Statistics Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received an NSF Career Award and is a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. More details...