Dr. Changbao Wu

Biography

Changbao Wu is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He obtained his PhD in Statistics in August 1999 from Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Professor Randy Sitter and has been a faculty member at Waterloo since then. His primary research interest lies in the design and analysis of complex surveys, encompassing broad topics such as semiparametric and nonparametric methods, resampling techniques like the jackknife and bootstrap methods, and issues related to missing data and measurement error. Wu has worked extensively on empirical likelihood methods and their computational procedures, fostering a strong interest in developing R packages for practical implementations of these methods. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Additionally, he has received the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics in 2012 and serves as an Associate Editor for several prestigious journals including Survey Methodology and Biometrika. Wu is also a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods.

Research Interests