As Professor of Statistics with a joint appointment in the Department of Entomology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Zhu routinely teaches and provides statistical consultation on statistical methods that encompass experimental designs, linear and generalized linear models, random and mixed effects models. 

 

Her primary research interests are environmental statistics, spatial statistics, and spatial-temporal statistics with applications to agriculture, biology, ecology and environmental sciences. She has successfully collaborated with researchers in a wide range of disciplines including environmental health, forest entomology, landscape ecology and spatial demography. She has also conducted statistical methodological research in a variety of areas of statistics including resampling methods, Marko random fields, spatial-temporal statistics and Bayesian hierarchical models, which are motivated by problems that arise in scientific collaboration.

 

Dr. Zhu holds a B.A. from Knox College in Mathematics and Computer Science, an M.S.E. from John Hopkins University in Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University, Ames, IA.