I am an Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Qualifications
Ph.D, McMaster University, Canada, - 2015
Experience
Associate Professor, Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, 2022-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2017-2022
Statistician, Office of Institutional Research and Analysis, McMaster University, Canada, 2015-2017
Articles
Zhu, Xiaojun Zhu & Balakrishnan, N. 2022 'One-shot device test data analysis using non-parametric and semi-parametric inferential methods and applications', Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 221, 108319
Zhu, Xiaojun, Liu, K. He, M. & Balakrishnan, N. 2021 'Reliability estimation for one-shot devices under cyclic accelerated life-testing', Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 212, 107595
Zhu, Xiaojun, N. Balakrishnan, H. So. 2021 'Exact one-and two-sample likelihood ratio tests based on time-constrained life-tests from exponential distributions.' Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability
Zhu, Xiaojun, Balakrishnan, N. , & Zhou, Y. 2020. 'Exact likelihood-ratio tests for a simple step-stress cumulative exposure model with censored exponential data'. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, vol. 22, p. 497-509
Zhu, Xiaojun & Balakrishnan, N 2016 'Exact inference for Laplace quantile, reliability and cumulative hazard functions based on Type-II censored data', IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. , no. 65, p. 164-178
Feng, S. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2016 'Exact likelihood inference for two exponential populations based on a joint generalized Type-I hybrid censored sample', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. , no. 86, p. 1342-1362
Balakrishnan, N. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2016 'Exact likelihood-based point and interval estimation for Laplace distribution based on Type-II right censored samples', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. , no. 86, p. 29-54
Zhu, Xiaojun, Ng, H.K.T & Tang, M.L. 2016 'Sequential Nonparametric Procedures for Testing the Equality of Two Lifetime Distributions based on Progressively Censored Data', Sequential Analysis:Design Methods and Applications, vol. , no. 35, p. 158-174
Fang, L., Zhu, Xiaojun & Balakrishnan, N. 2016 'Stochastic comparisons of parallel and series systems with heterogeneous Birnbaum-Saunders components', Statistics & Probability Letters, vol. , no. 112, p. 131-136
Balakrishnan, N. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2015 'Inference for the bivariate Birnbaum-Saunders lifetime regression model and associated inference', Metrika, vol. , no. 78, p. 853-872
Zhu, Xiaojun & Balakrishnan, N. 2015 'Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Laplace kernel and some properties and inferential issues', Statistics & Probability Letters, vol. , no. 101, p. 1-10
Balakrishnan, N. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2015 'Inference for the Birnbaum-Saunders lifetime regression model with applications', Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, vol. , no. 44, p. 2073-2100
Balakrishnan, N., Zhu, Xiaojun & Al-Zahrani, B. 2015 'Recursive computation of the single and product moments of order statistics from the complementary exponential-geometric distribution', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. , no. 85, p. 2187-2201
Balakrishnan, N. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2014 'On the existence and uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Type-I, Type-II and hybrid censored samples', Statistics, vol. , no. 48, p. 1013-1032
Balakrishnan, N. & Zhu, Xiaojun 2014 'An improved method of estimation for the parameters of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, vol. , no. 10, p. 2285-2294
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
Zhu, Xiaojun & Balakrishnan, N. 2017 Mathematical and Statistical Applications in Biology, Engineering, Environment and Information Science, ,
Zhu, Xiaojun, Mitra, D. & Balakrishnan, N. 2017 The Mathematics of The Uncertain, ,
Zhu, Xiaojun & Balakrishnan, N. 2013 Multivariate Statistics: Theory and Applications (Ed., T. Kollo), World Scientific,
Grants
Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)--Young Scientists
Principal Investigator, Jiangsu Science and Technology Programme- -Young Scientists
Principal Investigator, Research Development Fund, Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University
Courses taught
MTH313 Loss Distribution
MTH306 Credibility Theory
MTH303 Statistics Linear Mode
MTH206 Distribution Theory
MTH104 Introduction to Statistics
MTH008 Multivariable Calculus
MTH007 Linear Algebra
Awards and honours
2022 Jiangsu Science and Technology Programme-Excellent Young-Scholar Programme