2025, Penn State Schreyer Honors College (SHC) Excellence in Advising Award
2024, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
2024, Penn State Huck Institutes Leadership Fellow
2023, Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
2023, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Distinguished Service Award
2021, The inaugural Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leader Award
2020, Adobe’s Data Science Research Award
2019, International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Best Paper Award
2019, The inaugural Bernoulli Society (BS) New Researcher Award
2016, International Chinese Statistical Association International Conference Young Researcher Award
2016, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Education
2023 - present, Professor of Statistics, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University
2019 - 2023, Associate Professor of Statistics, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University
2014 - 2019, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University
2012 - 2013, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University (Mentor: Professor Jianqing Fan)
2008 - 2012, Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Minnesota (Advisor: Professor Hui Zou)
2008 - 2011, M.Sc. in Statistics, University of Minnesota
2004 - 2008, B.Sc. in Statistics, Peking University
Background
His research interests include high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric statistics, statistical and machine learning, large-scale optimization, and statistical modeling in biomedical, environmental, and social sciences. His recent research focuses on causal inference, federated learning, graphical models, high-dimensional inference, optimal transport, random objects, and reinforcement learning.
Miscellany
He is a dedicated mentor to Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, and five of his former advisees have become tenure-track faculty members in statistics. Please see both Statistical Learning and Data Mining (SLDM) Lab and Microbiome Data Science (MDS) Lab for more details.