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.

Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

Journal Articles


  • Weng, J., Tan, K., Wang, C., Yu, Z. (2025). Sparse Fréchet sufficient dimension reduction with graphical structure among predictors. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, (52) 3 1111-1478. (Link)
  • Li, M., Wang, Y., Kazis, L., Weng, J., Xia, W. (2025). Comorbidities and apolipoprotein E genotypes of patients with mild cognitive impairment in transition to Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports (Link)
  • Wang, P., Lu, J., Weng, J., Mitra, S. (2025). Conditional sufficient variable selection with prior information. Computational Statistics , (40) 2519–2551. (Link)
  • Huang, K., Weng, J., Li, M. (2024). A new online learning algorithm for streaming data and decision support with a Bayesian approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, (94) 11 2483-2499. (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 11-Jan. (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)
  • Service

    Service: Department


  • Committee Chair for Research Committee 2025-09-01 - 2026-06-30
  • Committee Member for Tenure and promotion committee at Mathematical Sciences 2025-09-01 - 2026-06-30
  • Service: Ph.D. Advising


  • Supervisor 2025/01 - Present
  • Service: University


  • Committee Member for Member of tenure and promotion committee at Modern Languages Department 2025-01-01 - Present
  • University Senate for At-large faculty senate 2023-09-01 - 2025-06-30
  • Committee Member for Curriculum Implementation Committee 2023-09-01 - 2025-06-30
  • Committee Member for Chinese faculty search committee 2022-09-01 - 2023-02-28