Jeongyoun Ahn


Assistant Professor

Department of  Statistics

University of Georgia

Phone: (706) 542-3433,   Office: 107 Statistics Building

Email: jy”last name” at uga ddot edu

 

Education

 Ph.D. in Statistics (2006), Department of Statistics & Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MS, BS in Statistics (1999), Department of Computer Science & Statistics, Seoul National University

 

Research Interests

High dimension, low sample size inference

Machine learning; statistical learning theory

Statistical problems in fMRI data

 

Publications

 

·         Lee, M. H., Ahn, J. & Jeon, Y. (2011), HDLSS Discrimination with Adaptive Data Piling, submitted.

·         Park, E., Spiegelman, C. & Ahn, J. (2011), A Nonparametric Approach Based on a Markov like Property for Classification, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, tentatively accepted.

·         Park, C., Ahn, J., Hendry, M. & Jang, W. (2011), Analysis of Long Period Variable Stars using a Nonparametric Significance Test of No Trend, JASA, accepted.

·         Ahn, J., Lee, M. H., & Yoon, Y. J. (2011), High Dimension, Low Sample Size Clustering with the Maximal Data Piling Distance, Statistica Sinica, accepted.

·         Review of Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning, by Clarke, Fokoue, and, Zhang (2011), JASA, 106(493): 375-382

·         Park, C., Lazar, N., Ahn, J., and Sornborger, A. (2010),  A Multiscale Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Resting fMRI Data,  Journal of Neuroscience Methods 193: 334-342

·         Ahn, J. (2010), A Stable Hyperparameter Selection for the Gaussian RBF Kernel for Discrimination, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 3(3):142-148

·         Ahn, J. and Marron, J. S. (2010), The Maximal Data Piling Direction for Discrimination, Biometrika, 97(1):254-259

·         Marron, J. S., Todd, M. J., and Ahn, J. (2007), Distance Weighted Discrimination, JASA, 102(480): 1267- 1271

·         Ahn, J., Marron, J. S., Muller, K.E. and Chi, Y. -Y. (2007), The High Dimension, Low Sample Size Geometric Representation Holds Under Mild Conditions, Biometrika, 94(3):760-766.

·         Liu, Y., Zhang, H. H., Park, C. and Ahn, J. (2007), Support Vector Machines with Adaptive Lq Penalty, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 6380-6394, (extended version of the proceeding)

·         Liu, Y., Zhang, H. H., Park, C., and Ahn, J. (2007), The Lq Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of Joint Summer Research Conference on Machine and Statistical Learning: Prediction and Discovery, Contemporary Mathematics, 443, 35-48.

·         Zhang, H., Ahn, J., Lin, X., and Park, C. (2006), Gene Selection Using Support Vector Machines with Nonconvex Penalty, Bioinformatics, 22, 88–95.

·         Robinson III, W. P., Stiffler, A., Rutherford, E. J., Ahn, J., Hurd, H., Baker, C. C., Meyer, A., and Rich, P. B. (2004), Blood Transfusion is an Independent Predictor of Increased Mortality in Nonoperatively Managed Blunt Hepatic and Splenic Injuries, Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 58(3):437 - 445.

·         Ahn, J. and Park, S. H. (1999), Optimal Restrictions on Regression Parameters For Linear Mixture Model, Journal of Korean Statistical Society, Vol. 28, No. 3, 325 - 336.

 

Links

Distance Weighted Discrimination