Postdoctoral Associate
Rice University, Houston, TX
Advisor: Dr. Hanjie Chen
Biostatistics
UTHealth Houston
Advisors: Dr. James Yang ยท Dr. Anne Buu ยท Dr. Theresa Tran
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne, Australia
Advisor: Dr. Howard Bondell
Statistics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Advisor: Dr. Jingjing Wu
Applied Statistical Methods for Identifying Features of Heart Rate Associated with Nicotine Vaping
Zhao P., Yang J., Buu A.
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Feb 2025
Reproducible and Generalizable Speech Emotion Recognition via an Intelligent Fusion Network
Zhang H., Zhao P.*, Tang G., Li Z., Yuan Z.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, May 2025
Pre-attentive Speech Signal Processing with Adaptive Routing for Emotion Recognition
Zhang H., Pang Z., Zhao P., Tang G., Shen L., Wang G.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2025
Sparse Temporal-Aware Capsule Network for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition
Zhang H.*, Huang H., Zhao P., Yu Z.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025
CENN: Capsule-Enhanced Neural Network with Innovative Metrics for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition
Zhang H.*, Huang H., Zhao P., Zhu X., Yu Z.
Knowledge-Based Systems, Sep 2024
DiGAN Breakthrough: Advancing Diabetic Data Analysis with Innovative GAN-Based Imbalance Correction
Zhao P., Liu X., Yue Z., Zhao Q., Liu X., Deng Y., Wu J.*
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 2024
Weighted Federated Learning with Encryption for Diabetes Classification
Zhao P., Yue Z., Liu X., Wu J.
IEEE CPS, AIxMHC ยท Taiwan, 2025 ยท Accepted
An Attention-Based LSTM Framework for Detection of Bitcoin Scams
Zhao P., Tian W., Xiao L., Liu X., Wu J.
IEEE HDIS ยท Tianjin, 2022
Prediction of Solar Power via Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Zhao P., Tian W.
IOP Conference Series ยท Tokyo, 2022
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Last updated: February 2026
