Ruiyi Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow for NISS, working with the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS). She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Nankai University in China and Ph.D. in Statistics from Florida State University. Prior to NISS, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Imaging Science of Johns Hopkins University.
Ruiyi’s research interests include:
- Computational statistics
- Computer Vision
- Elastic shape analysis
- Functional data analysis
- Nonparametric statistics
Selected Publications
Zhang, R., Ogden, R.T., Picard, M. and Srivastava, A. Nonparametric k-sample Test on Shape Spaces with Applications to Mitochondrial Shape Analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C.
Zhang, R. and Srivastava, A. Elastic Shape Analysis of Planar Objects Using Tensor Field Representations. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
Zhang, R. and Srivastava, A. On shape analysis of functional data. Book chapter of Riemannian Geometric Statistics in Medical Image Analysis.