Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Research Interests
- Functional data analysis
- Nonparametric and semiparametric statistics
- Bayesian econometrics
- Computational statistics
- Demographic forecasting
Editorial Board
- Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics (7/2019-)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (1/2017-)
- Associate Editor, Computational Statistics (1/2019-)
- Associate Editor, Forecasting (3/2020-)
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting (2/2021-)
- Associate Editor, Demographic Research (4/2022-)
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (1/2019-12/2022)
- Associate Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics (1/2017-6/2019)
Grants & Awards
- 2024: ARC Future Fellow (FT240100338) "Functional Panel Data Analysis: Harnessing Big Data for Society"
- 2023-2024: Visiting International Scholar Award, Macquarie University
- 2022: ARC Discovery Project (DP230102250) "Feature Learning for High-dimensional Functional Time Series"
- 2022: Macquarie University Consilience Research Centre
- 2022: Visiting Domestic Scholar Award, Macquarie University
- 2022: Enterprise Partnership Scheme, Macquarie University
- 2020: Research Accelerator Grant Scheme, Macquarie University
- 2018, 2019: Mid-Career Research Grant Scheme, Australian National University
- 2018, 2019: RSFAS Cross-Disciplinary Grant Scheme, Australian National University
- 2017: ARC Discovery Project (DP170102468) "Overcoming the problems of inconsistent migration data in the Asia Pacific"
- 2016, 2017: Research School of Social Science Cross-College Grant
- 2017: IUSSP Travel Grant
- 2016: SOA Travel Grant
- 2013: IIF Travel Grant
- 2010: Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University
Visiting Experience
- Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University (7/2013)
- Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University (8/2013; 4/2018)
- Cass Business School, City, University of London (6/2014; 12/2015; 6/2018)
- Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei (12/2014)
- ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton (12/2015; 6/2017; 7/2018)
- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University (1/2017; 2/2018)
- Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University (3/2018)
- United Nations Population Division (3/2018)
- Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo (4/2018)
- Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University (5/2018)
- Department of Mathematics, University of York (5/2018)
Postdoc Experience
- ESRC Centre for Population at the University of Southampton (January - December, 2013)
- Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University (July, 2010 - December, 2012)
Affiliations
- I am also a visiting scholar at the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton.
- I am an affiliated member at the School of Demography at the Australian National University.
Supervision
- Supervised Dr Jasmine Ha for her postdoc project, Australian National University, July 2018 - June 2020 (a Lecturer at Vietnam National University)
- Supervised Dr. Philip Drummond as a panel member for his Ph.D. program, February 2014 - July 2018 (a Lecturer at Monash University)
- Supervised Dr. Antonio Elias Fernandez, visiting 4th year Ph.D. student from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, November 2018 - April 2019 (a postdoc research fellow at Universidad de Málaga)
- Supervised Dr. Yuan Gao for her Ph.D. program, April 2015 - July 2020 (a Lecturer at the ANU from July 2020)
- Supervised Dr. Yang Yang for his Ph.D. program, February 2016 - September 2020, September 2020 - August 2022 (a postdoc research fellow at Monash University); September 2022 - present (a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle)
- Supervised Dr. Chen Tang for his Ph.D. program, March 2016 - April 2021 (a Lecturer at the ANU from February 2021)
- Supervised Dr. Xin (Landy) Huang for her Ph.D. program, September 2020 - May 2022 (a data analyst at Deloitte Australia); June 2022 - present (a data analyst @ Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
- Supervised Ms. Kehan Zhao (a first-class honors student @ ANU, a data analyst @ Atlassian)
- Supervised Ms. Vanessa Tan (Honours student @ MQ)
- Supervised Mr. Cristian Felipe Jimenez Varon (KAUST, a postdoc at the University of York in England)
- Supervised Mr. Jacky S. K. Wang (Reinsurance Group of America, Sydney)
- Supervised Mr. Hengzhe Zhao (Master student)
- Supervising Dr. Angel Lopez Oriona (a postdoc @ KAUST)
- Supervising Dr. Adam Nie (a postdoc @ ANU)
- Supervising Ms. Michelle Dong (EY Global, London)
- Supervising Ms. Hasna Afifahrusyda (PhD student)
- Supervising Mr. Runze Yang (Cotutelle PhD student)
Education/Academic qualification
Statistics, Ph.D., Visualizing and forecasting functional time series, Monash University
1 Mar 2007 → 28 Feb 2010
Award Date: 23 Sept 2010
Statistics, Bachelor with First Class Honours, Multiple hypothesis testing, La Trobe University
1 Mar 2004 → 29 Dec 2006
Award Date: 29 Dec 2006
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MQDRC: MQRC Consilience Macquarie University Data Research Centre
Yang, J., Selvadurai, N., Shang, H. & Sowman, P.
23/02/23 → 3/01/28
Project: Other
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Feature Learning for High-dimensional Functional Time Series
Yang, Y., Shang, H., Li, D., Qiao, X. & Fan, Q.
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Ensemble modelling for forecasting mortality and its implications for annuity pricing and risk management
1/07/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Inconsistent migration data in the Asia Pacific
Raymer, J., Pietsch, J., Shang, H., Wisniowski, A. & Abel, G.
1/07/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Research Outputs
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Is the age pension in Australia sustainable and fair? Evidence from forecasting the old-age dependency ratio using the Hamilton-Perry model
Chen, S., Shang, H. & Yang, Y., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Population Research. 42, 1, p. 1-27 27 p., 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A compositional approach to modelling cause-specific mortality with zero counts
Dong, M., Shang, H. L., Hui, F. & Bruhn, A., 6 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of Actuarial Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bootstrapping long-run covariance of stationary functional time series
Shang, H. L., Mar 2024, In: Forecasting. 6, 1, p. 138–151 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Change-point detection in functional time series: Applications to age-specific mortality and fertility
Shang, H. L., 6 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of Operations Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detection and estimation of structural breaks in high-dimensional functional time series
Li, D., Li, R. & Shang, H. L., Aug 2024, In: Annals of Statistics. 52, 4, p. 1716-1740 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
Impacts
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Forecasting the old-age dependency ratio to determine a sustainable pension age
Rob J. Hyndman (Participant), Yijun Zeng (Participant) & Hanlin Shang (Participant)
Impact: Society impacts
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Innovations in Statistical Modeling for Timber Industry
Hanlin Shang (Participant), Jiguo Cao (Participant), Peijun Sang (Participant) & FPInnovations (End user)
Impact: Commercial impacts, Environment impacts, Health impacts, Technology impacts