Won Chang

  Associate Professor
  Division of Statistics and Data Science
  Department of Mathematical Sciences
  University of Cincinnati

  email : changwn at ucmail.uc.edu   or   won.chang at uc.edu
  Curriculum Vitae



Education and Training

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, August 2014 - July 2016 (mentored by Dr. Michael L. Stein and co-mentored by Dr. Elisabeth J. Moyer)

Ph.D. Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 2014.
Thesis title: Climate model calibration using high-dimensional and non-Gaussian spatial data (Thesis advisor: Dr.
Murali Haran, Thesis co-advisor: Dr. Klaus Keller).

M.S. Statistics, Korea University, 2009.
Thesis title: Estimating volatility and distribution of European option prices using Bayesian UHF GARCH-M model (Thesis advisor: Dr. Yousung Park).

B.S. Statistics, Korea University, 2007.



Employment

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, July 2022 -

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, August 2016 - June 2022



Research



Professional Services

Associate Editor, Journal of Korean Statistical Society, 2023 - present

Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2023 - present

Associate Editor, Stat, 2023 - present



Honors and Awards

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI), 2021

Career Development Award, Korean International Statistical Society, 2019

Winner, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Student Paper Competition, 2014

Graduate Fellow, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010



Teaching

Instructor for Machine Learning and Statistics, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, and Spring 2024

Instructor for Bayesian Data Science, Fall 2023

Instructor for Introduction to Data Science, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

Instructor for Applied Statistics I, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020 and Fall 2021

Instructor for Statistical Computing with R and SAS, Fall 2021 Instructor for Spatial Statistics, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2017, Spring 2019

Instructor for Probability and Statistics I, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2016 - Fall 2019

Instructor for Introduction to Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2012.

Instructor for Introduction to Biometry, Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2012.