معرفی
Dr. Zhan Gao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University, where he has been a faculty member since 2025. His core expertise lies in econometric theory and its intersection with machine learning, particularly in high-dimensional time-series and panel-data settings.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Southern California
Research Interests:
Dr. Gao’s research spans econometrics, machine learning, biostatistics, and health economics. Methodologically, he focuses on robust estimation under endogeneity, high-dimensional inference, and convex optimization techniques that scale to large datasets.
His recent publications advance robust regression methods that withstand outlier contamination, develop new identification strategies for categorical random-coefficient models, and create survival-analysis tools for dependent censoring in oncology trials. Collectively, this body of work reflects a commitment to rigorous theory paired with reproducible computational tools.
Software & Reproducibility:
All major papers are accompanied by open-source R and Python packages hosted on GitHub, ensuring full reproducibility. Notable repositories include implementations of penalized least squares, copula-graphic estimators, and high-dimensional GMM routines.
Teaching:
In Fall 2025 Dr. Gao will teach ECO 4370 / 6370 Computing for Economics, introducing graduate and advanced undergraduate students to modern computational methods and convex optimization in econometrics.
