Research Interest

• Graphical models, causal inferences, Bayesian networks, neuroimaging data analysis

Publications

• Wang S, Isbell F, Deng W, et al. (2021) How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability. Ecology. Mar:e03347. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3347.

• Deng W, Rolls ET, Ji X, et al. (2017) Separate neural systems for behavioral change and for emotional responses to failure during behavioral inhibition. Human Brain Mapping, 38(7), 3527-3537.

• Deng W, Geng Z, Li H. (2013) Learning local directed acyclic graphs based on multivariate time series data. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 7(3), 1663-1683.

• Deng W, Geng Z, Luo P. (2013) Identifiability of Intermediate Variables on Causal Paths. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 8(3), 517-539.

Teaching

• Undergraduate

• Elementary Probability Theory

• Multivariate Statistical Analysis

• Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

• Introduction to Causal Inference

• Graduate

• Bayesian Methods for Statistical Inference

• Casual Inference and Graphical Models