Dr Archer Gong Zhang

  • Lecturer in Statistics and Data Analytics (Statistics)

Biography

Prior to my role at the University of Glasgow, I was a Departmental Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto, where I worked with Dr. Nancy Reid and Dr. Qiang Sun. I got my PhD from the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Dr. Jiahua Chen.

My personal webpage: https://gozhang.github.io/.

Research interests

 I am broadly interested in the theoretical and methodological aspects of Statistics. My current research centres on problems related to data integration and distribution shift. In particular, I study how to make efficient inferences using data collected from multiple sources, where the underlying populations are interconnected and share a common latent structure. A substantial part of my work focuses on inference under a semiparametric model known as the Density Ratio Model, which is closely related to biased sampling, exponential tilting, and proportional likelihood ratio models. I also work on nonparametric methods such as Empirical Likelihood.

Beyond these areas, I have a strong interest in causal inference and in the statistical aspects of machine learning, with a particular focus on transfer learning and related challenges involving distributional shift.

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Qiang Sun, Archer Gong Zhang, Chenyu Liu, Kean Ming Tan (2025) Resistant convex clustering: How does the fusion penalty enhance resistance? Electronic Journal of Statistics Archer Gong Zhang. ISSN 1935-7524 (doi: 10.1214/25-ejs2359)

Qiong Zhang, Archer Gong Zhang, Jiahua Chen (2024) Gaussian Mixture Reduction With Composite Transportation Divergence IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Crossref. (doi: 10.1109/TIT.2023.3323346)

Archer Gong Zhang, Jiahua Chen (2022) Density ratio model with data-adaptive basis function Journal of Multivariate Analysis Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2022.105043)

Archer Gong Zhang, Jiahua Chen (2021) Empirical likelihood ratio test on quantiles under a density ratio model Electronic Journal of Statistics Archer Gong Zhang. ISSN 1935-7524 (doi: 10.1214/21-ejs1943)

Archer Gong Zhang, Nancy Reid, Qiang Sun () A Semiparametric Approach to Causal Inference Archer Gong Zhang.

Archer Gong Zhang, Jiahua Chen () Optimal Estimation under a Semiparametric Density Ratio Model Archer Gong Zhang.

Thesis

Archer Gong Zhang (2022) Semiparametric inferences under a density ratio model University of British Columbia Archer Gong Zhang. (doi: 10.14288/1.0407289)