Work in progress #

• Spatial statistical downscaling of economic data.
  Noel Cressie$^*$, David Gunawan, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, and Xiaotian Zheng.
  Submitted. [Preprint]

• Bayesian quantile regression for marked temporal point processes.
  Skylar Shi$^+$ and Xiaotian Zheng*.
  

• Generalized chi-squared process for spatial dissimilarity.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, and Noel Cressie.
  

Book chapter #

• Fine-resolution climate data in ecological applications: A spatial-statistical perspective.
  Xiaotian Zheng* and Bella Salter$^+$ .
  To appear in Encyclopedia of Climate System Science, 2026. [link]
  [Elsevier Major Reference Work in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences]

Refereed journal articles #

• Mixture modeling for temporal point processes with memory.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Athanasios Kottas, and Bruno Sansó.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods), 2026. [link]
  [An earlier version received the 2023 ASA Business and Economics Statistics Section Student Paper Award]

• Transferring species distribution models to understudied systems: Does data integration help?
  Charlotte R. Patterson$^+$$^*$, Xiaotian Zheng, Scott D. Foster, and Kate J. Helmstedt.
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025. [link] [GitHub] [Zenodo]
• Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Noel Cressie, David A. Clarke, Melodie A. McGeoch, and Andrew Zammit-Mangion.
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025. [link] [GitHub] [Zenodo]
• A new family of error distributions for Bayesian quantile regression.
  Yifei Yan, Xiaotian Zheng, and Athanasios Kottas$^*$.
  Bayesian Analysis, 2025. [link] [GitHub]
• Nearest-neighbor mixture models for non-Gaussian spatial processes.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Athanasios Kottas, and Bruno Sansó.
  Bayesian Analysis, 2023. [link] [GitHub]
  [An earlier version received the 2022 ISBA Section on Environmental Sciences Student Paper Award]
• Bayesian geostatistical modeling for discrete-valued processes.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Athanasios Kottas, and Bruno Sansó.
  Environmetrics, 2023. [link] [GitHub]
  [The paper received the 2023 Wiley-TIES Best Environmetrics Paper Award]
• On construction and estimation of stationary mixture transition distribution models.
  Xiaotian Zheng$^*$, Athanasios Kottas, and Bruno Sansó.
  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2022. [link] [arXiv] [GitHub]
  [An earlier version received the 2021 ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Student Paper Award]