Jiaying Weng

Teaching Interests

Teaching interests include Introductory Statistics, Regression, Statistical Learning, and Business Analytics.

Research Interests

Sufficient Dimension Reduction, Sufficient Variable Selection and Non-parametric Analysis.

Publications

Journal Articles


  • Wang, P., Hu, J., Weng, J., Mitra, S. (2024). Conditional sufficient variable selection with prior information. Computational Statistics. (Link)
  • Huang, K., Weng, J., Wang, C., Li, M. (2024). A new online learning algorithm for streaming data and decision support with a Bayesian approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. (Link)
  • Weng, J., Ke, C., Wang, P. (2023). Sparse Fréchet sufficient dimension reduction via nonconvex optimization. Conference on Parsimony and Learning, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (234) 39-53. (Link)
  • Peecher, J. S., Schecter, A. J., Lu, H., Quynh, H., Stromberg, A., Weng, J., Crandall, R., Birnbaum, L. S. (2022). Biomonitoring of Polybrominated Dioxins & Furans, Polychlorinated Dioxins & Furans, and Dioxin Like Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Vietnamese Female Electronic Waste Recyclers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, (64) 9 742-747. (Link)
  • Weng, J. (2022). Fourier transform sparse inverse regression estimators for sufficient variable selection. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, (168) (Link)
  • Weng, J., Yin, X. (2022). A minimum discrepancy approach with Fourier transform in sufficient dimension reduction. Statistica Sinica, (32) Online Special Issue II 2381-2403. (Link)
  • Gutierrez, A. M., Bhandari, R., Weng, J., Stromberg, A., Dziubla, T. D., Hilt, J. (2020). Synthesis of Magnetic Nanocomposite Microparticles for Binding of Chlorinated Organics in Contaminated Water Sources. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. (Link)
  • Ahmad , I., Weng, J., Stromberg, A., Hilt , J. Z., Dziubla , T. D. (2019). Fluorescence based detection of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in water using hydrophobic interactions. Analyst, (144) 2 677-684. (Link)
  • Jackson, E. N., Thatcher, S. E., Larian, N., English, V., Soman, S., Morris, A. ., Weng, J., Stromberg, A., Swanson, H. ., Pearson, K., Cassis, L. A. (2019). Effects of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Deficiency on PCB-77-Induced Impairment of Glucose Homeostasis during Weight Loss in Male and Female Obese Mice. Environmental Health Perspectives, (127) 7 1-11. (Link)
  • Gutierrez, A. M., Bhandari, R., Weng, J., Stromberg, A., Dziubla, T. D., Hilt, J. (2019). Novel magnetic core-shell nanoparticles for the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from contaminated water sources. Materials Chemistry and Physics, (223) 68-74. (Link)
  • Weng, J., Yin, X. (2018). Fourier transform approach for inverse dimension reduction method. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics , (30) 4 1049-1071 . (Link)
  • Weng, J., Young, D. S. (2017). Some dimension reduction strategies for the analysis of survey data. Journal of Big Data, (4) 43 (Link)
  • Presentations

  • Weng, J. (2024). Presented at the CMStatistics 2024 London, UK
  • Weng, J. (2024). Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting Seattle, WA
  • Weng, J. (2024). Presented at the 7th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics
  • Weng, J. (2023). Presented at the CMStatistics 2023 Gemany
  • Weng, J. (2023). Presented at the ICSA ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Arbor, MI
  • Weng, J. (2023). Presented at the Miami University Colloquium talk Virtual
  • Weng, J. (2022). Presented at the Mathematical Sciences Research Seminar Mathematical Sciences Department Waltham, MA
  • Weng, J. (2022). Presented at the 2022 Landenhop Lecture and Probability and Statistics Conference Carbondale, IL
  • Weng, J. (2022). Presented at the International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications 2022 Huntington, WV.
  • Weng, J. (2022). Presented at the American Statistical Association 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings Washington, D.C.
  • Weng, J. (2021). Presented at the King's College CMStatistics 2021 London
  • Weng, J. (2021). Presented at the University of Arkansas Colloquium talk Virtual
  • Weng, J. (2021). Presented at the Southwest Jiaotong University School of Mathematics Colloquium talk Virtual
  • Weng, J. (2021). Presented at the Hangzhou Dianzi University Colloquium talk Virtual
  • Weng, J. (2020). Presented at the American Statistical Association 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings Virtual
  • Weng, J. (2019). Presented at the Bentley University Bentley University's 7th Annual Research Showcase Poster Session and Reception
  • Service

    Department Service


  • Committee Member for Research Committee 2019 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Social Committee 2021 - 2022
  • Committee Member for Social Committee 2019 - 2021
  • Committee Member for CADS Consulting 2021 - 2021
  • Committee Member for GB213 curriculum reform 2020 - 2020
  • University Service


  • University Senate for At-large faculty senate 2023 - 2025
  • Committee Member for Curriculum Implementation Committee 2023 - 2025
  • Committee Member for Chinese faculty search committee 2022 - 2023
  • Professional Service


  • Committee Member for BCASA Planning Committee 2020 - Present
  • Newsletter editor for Boston Chapter American Statistical Association 2023 - 2026
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Biometrics 2024 - 2024
  • Conference Organized Invited Session Organizer for 17th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics - 2024
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science 2024 - 2024
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Statistics and Computing 2024 - 2024
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 2023 - 2024
  • Student Competition committee for 7th Analytics without border conference 2023 - 2024
  • Conference Organized Invited Session Organizer for 16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics - 2023
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 2023 - 2023
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Electronic Journal of Statistics 2023 - 2023
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Statistics and Probability Letters 2023 - 2023
  • Conference Organized Invited Session Organizer for New England Statistics Symposium - 2023
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Systems Science & Complexity 2023 - 2023
  • Topic-contributed Session Organizer for ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium 2023 2022 - 2023
  • Conference Organized Invited Session Organizer for Alamo Symposium in Statistics - 2023
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2022 - 2022
  • Topic-contributed Session Organizer for Joint Statistical Meetings 2022 2021 - 2022
  • Topic-contributed Session Organizer for ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium 2022 2021 - 2022
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Statistics and Probability Letters 2022 - 2022
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Statistica Sinica 2021 - 2022
  • Committee Member for Poster Judge of NESS-NextGen Data Science Day 2021 - 2021
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Statistics and Probability Letters 2021 - 2021
  • Topic-contributed Session Organizer for Joint Statistical Meetings 2021 2020 - 2021
  • Invited Session Organizer for Joint Statistical Meetings 2021 2020 - 2021
  • Student Competition committee for Analytics without border conference 2021 - 2021
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Applied Statistics 2020 - 2020
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 2020 - 2020
  • Reviewer, Journal Article for Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2019 - 2020
  • Conference Organized Invited Session Organizer for 13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics - 2020
  • Lunch Session Zoom Host for Virtual Student Research Symposium on Statistics and Data Science 2020 - 2020
  • Reviewer, Book for Festschrift in honor of R. Dennis Cook: Fifty years of contribution to Statistical Science 2019 - 2020