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Ph.D. Candidate, Biostatistics and Data Science, UT Health Science Center at Houston

My research interests span a wide range of areas in biostatistics and data science, particularly applied to public health and tobacco control:

Zhao P., Yang J., Buu A.* Applied Statistical Methods for Identifying Features of Heart Rate that Are Associated with Nicotine Vaping. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Feb 2025.
Zhang H., Pang Z., Zhao P., Tang G., Shen L., Wang G. Pre-attentive speech signal processing with adaptive routing for emotion recognition. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2025.
Zhang H., Zhao P.*, Tang G., Li Z., Yuan Z. Reproducible and Generalizable Speech Emotion Recognition via an Intelligent Fusion Network. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, May 2025.
Zhang H.*, Huang H., Zhao P., Yu Z. Sparse Temporal-Aware Capsule Network for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
Zhang H.*, Huang H., Zhao P., Zhu X., Yu Z. CENN: Capsule-Enhanced Neural Network with Innovative Metrics for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition. Knowledge-Based Systems, Sep 2024.
Zhao P., Liu X., Yue Z., Zhao Q., Liu X., Deng Y., Wu J.* DiGAN Breakthrough: Advancing Diabetic Data Analysis with Innovative GAN-Based Imbalance Correction Techniques. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2024.

Zhao P., Yue Z., Liu X., Wu J. Weighted Federated Learning with Encryption for Diabetes Classification. IEEE CPS, AIxMHC, Taiwan, 2025. (Accepted)
Zhao P., Tian W., Xiao L., Liu X., Wu J. An Attention-Based Long Short-Term Memory Framework for Detection of Bitcoin Scams. IEEE HDIS, Tianjin, 2022. (Best Paper Nomination)
Zhao P., Tian W. Research on Prediction of Solar Power Considering the Methods of Statistical and Machine Learning – Based on the Data of Australian Solar Power Market. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Tokyo, 2022.