Academic and Professional Experience

Xiaoyue Cheng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University in 2015, and her Master and Bachelor’s degrees in Statistics from Renmin University of China. Xiaoyue has taught courses at different levels at UNO including machine learning, time series, mathematical computing, statistical methods, etc.

Xiaoyue’s research interest includes data visualization, interactive graphics, statistical computing and simulation, machine learning, image object recognition, and exploratory data analysis. She has served as PI and co-PI of three research grants and has extensive interdisciplinary research experience in a variety of fields including public administration, K-12 education, psychology, public health, medical clinics, engineering, aviation, agronomy, and business marketing. She is the main author of six R packages and six visual dashboard web applications.

Xiaoyue is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA). She has served as the Associate Editor of the R Journal since 2020, Editorial Board member of the National Accounting Review since 2019, and served on the Review Panel of the Student Paper Award, ASA Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Section in 2019 & 2020. Xiaoyue is elected as Secretary/Treasurer of ASA Nebraska Chapter for 2021-2024.