Zheng Xu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics and Economics at Iowa State University in 2012. After graduation, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His research interests include biostatistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, nonparametric statistics, and statistical methodological development in applied fields.