Whitney Huang
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Associate Professor, Ph.D.
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About Me
I am currently an Associate Professor of Statistics at Clemson University, where I have been since August 2019. Prior to joining Clemson, I was a Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) / NSF Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria (UVic), affiliated with the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, where I worked with Francis Zwiers and Adam Monahan. Before joining UVic, I was a SAMSI/University of North Carolina postdoctoral fellow working with Richard Smith.
I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue University in August 2017, where I was advised by Hao Zhang. During my Ph.D. studies, I was actively involved in the NSF Research Network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS) and the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), working with Michael Stein and Elisabeth Moyer at the University of Chicago, and Doug Nychka at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Before coming to Purdue, I earned a Master's degree in Statistics from the University of Akron and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
My research interests include statistics of extremes; spatial and spatio-temporal statistics; surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification for computer experiments; time-frequency analysis; multiscale statistical modeling; spatial point processes; and applications in environmental and climate sciences.
I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Weather and Climate Extremes (WACE), the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES), and Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (ASCMO). At Clemson, I help organize the Statistics Seminar in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, which brings researchers in statistics and related fields to campus.
Employment
Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Aug. 2025 to Present
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Aug. 2019 to Aug. 2025
CANSSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Aug. 2018 to July 2019
SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Climate and the Earth System (CLIM), Aug. 2017 to July 2018
Education
Purdue University: Ph.D., Statistics, Aug. 2017
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Thesis Topic: Statistics of Extremes with Applications in Climate
University of Akron: M.S., Statistics, Dec. 2009
National Cheng Kung University: B.S., Mechanical engineering, June. 2006