Research

Zhang, L., Ma, X., Wikle, C. K., & Huser, R. (2023). Flexible and efficient spatial extremes emulation via variational autoencoders. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08079. Article Link.

Zhang, L., Risser, M. D. and Shaby, B. A. (2024+). Spatial Scale-aware Tail Dependence Modeling for High-dimensional Spatial Extremes. In preparation

Zhang, L., Shaby, B. A., & Wadsworth, J. L. (2022). Hierarchical transformed scale mixtures for flexible modeling of spatial extremes on datasets with many locations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(539), 1357-1369. Article Link.

Zhang, L., del Castillo, E., Berglund, A. J., Tingley, M. P., & Govind, N. (2020). Computing confidence intervals from massive data via penalized quantile smoothing splines. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 144, 106885. Article Link.

Zhang, L., & Shaby, B. A. (2023). Asymptotic posterior normality of the generalized extreme value distribution. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05747. Article Link.

Zhang, L., & Shaby, B. A. (2023). Reference Priors for the Generalized Extreme Value Distributions. Statistica Sinica, 33, 1-24. Article Link.

Zhang, L., & Shaby, B. A. (2022). Uniqueness and global optimality of the maximum likelihood estimator for the generalized extreme value distribution. Biometrika, 109(3), 853-864. Article Link.

Zhang, L., Risser, M. D., Wehner, M. F., & O'Brien, T. A. (2023). Explaining the unexplainable: leveraging extremal dependence to characterize the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03688. Article Link.

Bercos‐Hickey, E., O’Brien, T. A., Wehner, M. F., Zhang, L., Patricola, C. M., Huang, H., & Risser, M. D. (2022). Anthropogenic contributions to the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(23), e2022GL099396. Article Link.

Zhang, L., Risser, M. D., Molter, E. M., Wehner, M. F., & O'Brien, T. A. (2022). Accounting for the spatial structure of weather systems in detected changes in precipitation extremes. Weather and Climate Extremes, 38, 100499. Article Link.

Brown, B., Grollemund, R. B. and Zhang, L. (2023+). Reconstructing the evolutionary history of languages from non-lexical data. In preparation.

Wei, Y., Zhang, L. and Wang, S. (2023+). Bayesian learning of mental representations using reverse correlation in neurophysiological research. In preparation.