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Likun Zhang

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Phone: 814-880-8824

likunz@lbl.gov

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Biography

Likun is currently holds a guest faculty position with the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State, where he focused on studying the extreme value theory and developing flexible models for extremes of spatial processes. For his postdoctoral studies at the lab, he works closely with Mark Risser to apply the advanced Bayesian models and develop novel methodology to study a variety of weather processes and their corresponding climatology. The long-term goal of this work is to characterize extreme weather events and describe the influence of greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities on these events.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, with Graduate Minor in Computational Science, Penn State University, State College, PA, 2020, Dissertation: “Topics on Statistical Inference for Extreme Values”
  • B.S., Statistics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2015

Experience

  • Guest Faculty, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2022-Present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2020-2022
  • Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2018-2020
  • Data Analyst Intern, Netflix Inc., 2017; 2018
  • Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015-2017
  • Summer Intern, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, 2014

Professional Affiliations

  • American Statistical Association, 2020-Present
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2018-Present
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