Research

Publications

  • The Typicality Principle and its Implications for Statistics and Data Science
    Yiran Jiang , Zeyu Zhang, Ryan Martin and Chuanhai Liu
    Journal of Data Science (2026), to appear.
    [arXiv]

  • Modern Synthetic Data Generation for Transportation: Methods, Domain Constraints, and Evaluation
    Xiaowei Chen, Yiran Jiang
    Advanced Statistical Methods for Transportation Economics and Engineering (2026), to appear.

  • Estimation of Over-parameterized Models from an Auto-Modeling Perspective
    Yiran Jiang and Chuanhai Liu
    Journal of the American Statistical Association (2025).
    [paper] [arXiv] [code]

  • Empowering Genome-wide Association Studies via a Visualizable Test Based on Regional Association Score
    Yiran Jiang and Heping Zhang
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).
    [paper] [code]

  • Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data
    Timothy Jones, Owen G. Ward, Yiran Jiang, John Paisley and Tian Zheng
    Statistica Sinica (2025).
    [paper] [code]

  • Real-time onboard SVM-based human locomotion recognition for a bionic knee exoskeleton on different terrains
    Zhihao Zhou, Xiuhua Liu, Yiran Jiang, Jingeng Mai, Qining Wang
    IEEE-RAS TC on Wearable Robotics (2019)
    [paper]

Preprints

  • Genetics of Human Longevity: Regional Association Signals and Cross-Cohort Replication
    Yiran Jiang, Yue Hu and Heping Zhang
    submitted.

  • Forest-Based Approaches to Detecting Gene-Environment Interactions
    Yue Hu, Yiran Jiang and Heping Zhang
    submitted.

  • Finite Sample Valid Inference via Calibrated Bootstrap
    Yiran Jiang, Chuanhai Liu and Heping Zhang
    arXiv preprint (2023), under revision at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B
    [arXiv] [code]

Others

I am currently leading several projects on uncertainty quantification (conformal prediction), synthetic data generation, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS).