alexzhao.netWhich universities gained R1 in the new 2025 Carnegie Classifications?The American Council on Education recently released their new updated 2025 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (or Carnegie Classification for short). Of note, this update from the 2021 Classification release changed a previou...Feb 20, 2025·9 min read
alexzhao.netNew research paper about high-dimensional inference out nowA paper that was part of my dissertation work during grad school is now finally published in the Annals of Statistics. Details can be found below: Title: Testing high-dimensional regression coefficients in linear models Abstract: This paper is concer...Feb 17, 2025·1 min read
alexzhao.netThe most annoying default setting to turn off on a new Windows 11 installThis is more or less just a note for myself in the future (for Windows 11 anyways, who knows how Windows 12 will work), but I figure if someone on a search engine stumbles across this, it might be helpful to them as well. tl,dr; Go to OneDrive's Sync...Dec 30, 2023·3 min read
alexzhao.netWhere Do Penn State Statistics PhD Students Go After They Graduate? (2022 Update)A version of this article was originally written in 2019. Now that I’ve graduated and as part of moving my website to Hashnode I decided to revisit this analysis with data through Summer 2022. When I was a statistics PhD student, I was often asked wh...Oct 12, 2022·7 min read
alexzhao.netThe Unroll.me Data That Uber Bought Probably Isn't That AnonymousAs was to be expected, a recent New York Times article about Uber has gotten the internet into an uproar over how Uber conducts its business. What's strange, however, is that while much of the internet's displeasure has been focused on Uber (and read...Apr 25, 2017·5 min read
