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Xiran Zhang

About Xiran Zhang

Xiran Zhang

  • Ph.D. Student, Statistics

statistics High Performance Computing HPC geospatial statistics spatio-temporal statistics

Xiran Zhang research investigates statistics and high-performance computing, with a particular focus on scalable methods for large-scale geostatistical and spatio-temporal problems.

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May 10 - May 16, 2026

  • KAUST CEMSE STAT Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Xiran Zhang Scalable Methods for Multivariate Normal Probability Estimation with Applications in Confidence Region Detection, Transport Phenomena, and Parallel Computing Using RCOMPSs

    Scalable Methods for Multivariate Normal Probability Estimation with Applications in Confidence Region Detection, Transport Phenomena, and Parallel Computing Using RCOMPSs

    Xiran Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Statistics
    May 14, 15:00 - 17:00

    B2 R5209

    geospatial statistics spatio-temporal statistics High Performance Computing HPC multivariate statistics GPU Algorithms

    This thesis addresses computing high-dimensional multivariate normal (MVN) probabilities in environmental and geospatial applications by combining high-performance computing, numerical approximation, and transport-based covariance modeling to make several important spatial procedures usable at larger scales.

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