Jun Zhu is a statistician and entomologist who works as a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Entomology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[1] Her research interests involve the analysis of spatial data and spatio-temporal data, and the applications of this analysis in environmental statistics.
[2] After earning a bachelor's degree from Knox College (Illinois) in mathematics and computer science in 1994, Zhu moved to Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master's degree in mathematical sciences in 1995.
[1][2] Her dissertation, Asymptotic Inference for Spatial Cumulative Distribution Function, was jointly supervised by Soumendra Nath Lahiri and Noel Cressie.
[3] Zhu serves on the Human Studies Review Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.