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Academic Achievements
Paper 'Heteroskedastic Tensor Clustering' (with Yuxin Chen), under revision
Paper 'Deflated HeteroPCA: Overcoming the curse of ill-conditioning in heteroskedastic PCA' (with Yuxin Chen), accepted to Annals of Statistics
Paper 'Inference for Low-rank Tensors – No Need to Debias' (with Dong Xia, Anru Zhang, alphabetical order), published in Annals of Statistics, 2022
Paper 'Optimal High-order Tensor SVD via Tensor-Train Orthogonal Iteration' (with Anru Zhang, Lili Zheng, Yazhen Wang), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022 (This paper received IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, 2021)
Paper 'Sparse Group Lasso: Optimal Sample Complexity, Convergence Rate, and Statistical Inference' (with T. Tony Cai, Anru Zhang, alphabetical order), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022
Paper 'High-dimensional Log-Error-in-Variable Regression with Applications to Microbial Compositional Data Analysis' (with Pixu Shi, Anru Zhang, equal contributions), published in Biometrika, 2022 (This paper received Biometrics Early-Stage Investigator Award by the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association, 2019)
Paper 'On the Non-asymptotic and Sharp Lower Tail Bounds of Random Variables' (with Anru Zhang, alphabetical order), published in STAT, 2020
Paper 'Optimal Analysis of Subset-Selection Based L_p Low-Rank Approximation' (with Chen Dan, Hong Wang, Hongyang Zhang, Pradeep Ravikumar, equal contributions), published in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019
Paper 'Dropout Training, Data-dependent Regularization, and Generalization Bounds' (with Wenlong Mou, Jun Gao, Liwei Wang), published in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018
Paper 'Low Rank Approximation of Binary Matrices: Column Subset Selection and Generalizations' (with Chen Dan, Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen, He Jiang, Liwei Wang, alphabetical order), published in 43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 2018
Background
Research interests include high-dimensional statistical inference, tensor data analysis, statistical learning theory, and nonconvex optimization. Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.