January 2024: Our paper 'PERCEPT: a new online change-point detection method using topological data analysis' was selected (one of two articles) by the editors for an outstanding Technometrics article in the ASA Choice Collection issue [link]
August 2023: Greatly appreciative of new funding from NSF DMS 2220496, NSF DMS 2316012, and DE-SC0024477 on a variety of projects on threat detection, Quasi Monte Carlo sampling, and Bayesian uncertainty quantification.
August 2023: Xiaojun Zheng was awarded the 2023 ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences Best Student Paper Award for our paper 'PERCEPT: a new online change-point detection method using topological data analysis'. Congrats Xiaojun!
May 2023: Flora Shi received the 2023 Undergraduate BEST Award, awarded to the best senior thesis in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke. Congrats Flora!
November 2022: Honored to receive the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award from j-ISBA, which recognizes outstanding junior Bayesian researchers for their contributions to the field and community.
Research Experience
Currently the Program Chair-Elect of the ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, and an Associate Editor for Technometrics and Data Science in Science.
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. His research involves integrating domain knowledge (e.g., scientific theories, mechanistic models, guiding principles) as prior information for cost-efficient statistical inference, prediction, and decision-making. His ongoing research is motivated from interdisciplinary collaborations in high-energy and nuclear physics, aerospace engineering, and bio-engineering.