Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao

Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences
Arizona State University

Office: PSA 741
Email: mkao3@asu.edu
URL: http://math.la.asu.edu/~mhkao/

Education:

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2009

M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2006

M.S. in Statistics, National Central University, Taiwan, 1999
B.S. in Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan, 1997

Experience:

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2009 – present

Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2009 spring

Statistical Consultant, Biostatistics Consulting Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2006 – 2008

Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2004 – 2006

Assistant Manager, Virginia Contract Research Organization, Taiwan, 2002 – 2004

Statistician, Virginia Contract Research Organization, Taiwan, 2001 – 2002

Publications:

1.           Kao, M.-H., Mandal, A., and Stufken, J. (2008). “Optimal Design for Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Considering Both Individual Stimulus Effects And Pairwise Contrasts.” Statistics and Applications, 6, 235-256

2.           Kao, M.-H. (2009). “Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for ER-fMRI Using MATLAB.” Journal of Statistical Software, 30, 1-13

3.           Kao, M.-H., Mandal, A., Lazar, N., and Stufken, J. (2009). “Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies.” NeuroImage, 44, 849-856

4.           Kao, M.-H., Mandal, A., and Stufken, J. (2009). “Efficient Designs for Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Multiple Scanning Sessions.” Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 38, 3170-3182

5.           Kao, M.-H., Mandal, A., and Stufken, J. (2012). “Constrained Multi-Objective Designs for Functional MRI Experiments Via A Modified Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 61, 515-534

6.           Kao, M.-H., Majumdar, D., Mandal, A. and Stufken, J. (2012+) “Robust Event-Related fMRI Designs Under A Nonlinear Model”, revised

7.           Kao, M.-H., and Stufken J. (2012+) “Optimal Design for Event-Related fMRI Studies”, under review

8.           Kao, M.-H., and Mittelmann, D. H. (2012+) “A Fast Algorithm for Constructing Efficient Event-Related fMRI Designs”, revised

9.           Kao, M.-H. (2013) “On the Optimality of Extended Maximal Length Linear Feedback Shift Register Sequences”, Statistics & Probability Letters, in press

10.      Kao, M.-H. (2013) “A New Type of Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Via Hadamard Matrices”, submitted

Other Manuscripts:

Kao, M.-H., (2009) “Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia; advisors: John Stufken & Abhyuday Mandal; technical report (a substantially revised version has appeared in NeuroImage).

Kao, M.-H., (1999) “Bayesian Analysis for Multiple Changes of The Long Memory Parameter.” M.S. thesis, National Central University, Taiwan; advisor: Shu-Ing Liu; technical report (cited by 2: a, b).

Selected Consulting Projects:

“K-shuff: A robust new tool to quantitatively compare gene sequence libraries” – presented by Jangid, K. at the 13th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Seattle, WA

“Alcohol-related elevations in blood pressure among young adults on a college campus” – presented by Godette, D. at the APHA 136th Annual Meeting and Expo, San Diego, CA

“Hurt at work in America: An examination of workplace injury through the 2002 General Social Survey And NIOSH Quality of Worklife Module” – presented by Smith, T. at the 2008 National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA

“Semantic specific and semantic – syntactic integration regions engaged by verbal memory processes and the semantic encoding advantage” – manuscript under revision

Awards and Honors:

James L. Carmon Scholarship: awarded to a graduate student whose research reflects state-of-the-art utilization of computer and/or networking technology in the sciences or creative arts by Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Georgia

Student Paper Award: awarded by Statistical Computing Section and the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association

R. L. Anderson Award: awarded jointly by the Southern Regional Council on Statistics and the American Statistical Association

The Best Senior Student: awarded by the Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
The Best Beginning Theoretical Student: awarded by the Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
University-Wide Graduate School Assistantship: a university-wide, competitive assistantship awarded by the Graduate School, University of Georgia

Scholarship of Cathay Life Charity Foundation: a scholarship awarded to the most outstanding students at each university in Taiwan

Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China: elected by National Central University, Taiwan

Conference Presentations

1.      Maximin and Maximin Efficient Designs for fMRI Experiments, Oct. 2012, the Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference, Athens, GA

2.     Experimental Designs for Functional MRI with Compound Stimulus, Jul. 2012, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA (invited; topic contributed session)

3.     Robust Event-Related fMRI Designs under A Nonlinear Model, Jun. 2012, the 6th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Athens, Greece (invited)

4.     Experimental Designs for Functional MRI with Compound Stimulus, May 2011, International Conference on Design of Experiments, Memphis, TN (invited)

5.     Constrained Multi-objective Designs for Functional MRI via A Modified NSGA-II, Dec. 2010, the 2010 Annual Meeting of Chinese Statistical Society and International Statistical Conference, Jhongli, Taiwan (invited)

6.     Multi-Objective fMRI Designs with Unequal Epoch Length via NSGA-II, May. 2010, Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

7.     Multi-Objective fMRI Designs with Unequal Epoch Length via NSGA-II, May 2010, the Fifth International Workshop: Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data, Pittsburgh, PA

8.     Multi-Objective fMRI Designs with Unequal Epoch Length via NSGA-II, Apr. 2010, New England Statistics Symposium, Cambridge, MA (invited)

9.     Efficient Experimental Designs under a Nonlinear Model for Event-Related fMRI, Oct. 2009, Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference, Columbia, MO (invited)

10.      Efficient Experimental Designs under a Nonlinear Model for Event-Related fMRI, Aug. 2009, Joint Statistical Meeting, Washington, DC

11.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, Oct. 2008, Network of Greater Georgia Institutions of Neuroimaging and Statistics, Athens, GA

12.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, Aug. 2008, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO (invited; student paper award)

13.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, May 2008, International Indian Statistical Association, Storrs, CT

14.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, May 2008, Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, Atlanta, GA

15.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, Nov. 2007, the Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference, Memphis, TN

16.      Multi-Objective Optimal Experimental Designs for Event-Related fMRI Studies, Jun. 2007, the SRCOS/ASA Summer Research Conference on Statistics, Richmond, VA

Teaching

STP 231: Statistics for Biosciences, 2009, 2010
STP 420: Introductory Applied Statistics, 2011
STP 427: Mathematical Statistics, 2011
STP 526: Theory of Statistical Linear Models, 2010, 2011, 2012

STP 531: Applied Analysis of Variance, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
STP 598: Advanced Design of Experiments, 2012
STAT 4220 (UGA): Applied Experimental Designs, 2009