RESEARCH GROUP
Current Members
Postdocs
Weicong Lyu (with Prof. Chun Wang)
Xin Xie, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
(AI mentor, with science mentor Prof. Hui Deng)
PhD Students
Jinming Li (co-advised by Prof. Ji Zhu)
Mengqi Lin (co-advised by Prof. Colin Fogarty)
Feifan Jiang (co-advised by Prof. Ji Zhu)
MS Students
Kevin Wang
Jiaqi Sun
Undergraduate Students
Chenrui Hu (URPS 2024, co-advised by Prof. Ji Zhu)
Tarun Raaj Saravanan (URPS 2024, co-advised by Prof. Ji Zhu)
Yanlong Liu
URPS: Undergraduate Research Program in Statistics
Alumni
PhD Students
🎓 Chengcheng Li, Ph.D., Umich
Graduated 2022 ➙ First job: Microsoft
Thesis Title: Statistical Estimation and Inference for Large-Scale Categorical Data
🎓 Chenchen Ma, Ph.D., Umich
Graduated 2022 ➙ First job: Meta
Thesis Title: Statistical Learning for Latent Attribute Models
🎓 Yinqiu He (co-advised by Prof. Xuming He), Ph.D., Umich
Graduated 2021 ➙ First job: Assistant Professor of Statistics @ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thesis Title: High-Dimensional Statistical Inference: Phase Transition, Power Enhancement, and Sampling
🎓 Yuqi Gu, Ph.D., UMich
Graduated 2020 ➙ First job: Assistant Professor of Statistics @ Columbia University
Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis of Structured Latent Attribute Models
🎓 April Cho, Ph.D., UMich
Graduated 2020 ➙ First job: Data Scientist @ Center for Naval Analyses
Thesis Title: Gaussian Variational Estimation for Multidimensional Item Response Theory
🎓Zhuoran Shang, Ph.D., UMN
Graduated 2018 ➙ Meta
Thesis Title: Latent Class Models: Design and Diagnosis.
MS Students
Tianci Liu , UM (Graduated 2021)
Zi Wang, UM (Graduated 2020)
Xian Zhang, UM (Graduated 2020)
Zhongyuan Lyu, UM (Graduated 2019)
Yuming Yang, UM (Graduated 2019)
Yuanhao Liu, UM (Graduated 2019)
Shiyang Su, UMN (Graduated 2016)
Yifan Gu, UMN (Graduated 2015)
Mengxi Cheng, UMN (Graduated 2014)
Qian Su, UMN (Graduated 2014)
Undergraduate Students
Raphael Chin (URPS 2022, Honors Thesis 2023)
Emma Thronson (URPS 2022, Honors Thesis 2023)
Jingruo Sun (Honors Thesis 2023)
Wangze Shen (URPS 2022)
Weihan Xu (URPS 2022)
Zhihao Guo (Honors Thesis)
Yanmeng Song (Honors Thesis)
Xinyue Zhao (Honors Thesis)
William Zhang (Independent Research)
Yeichan Kim
URPS: Undergraduate Research Program in Statistics
Visiting Students
Jialin He (USTC)
Zimeng Li (USTC)
Chengyu Cui (USTC)
Feifan Jiang (USTC)
Bingqing Li (USTC)
Jiaqi Tang (USTC)
Bo Meng (USTC)
Zhenghao Zeng (USTC)
Jiyang Wen (USTC)
Juntao Wang (Northeast Normal U)
Students News
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on receiving the Department Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award! (May, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Jinming on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Li! (May 1, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Ouyang! (April 29, 2024)
🎉 Yanlong's honors thesis was awarded Highest Honors by the Statistics Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Congratulations! (April, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (April, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2024-25 (March 2024)
🎉 Big Congratulations to Jing, who just accepted a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Business School at the University of Hong Kong! (Feb, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the student paper award from the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the ASA (Jan, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Raphael Chin on receiving Outstanding Undergraduate Award (April 2023)
🎉 Congratulations to Raphael Chin, Emma Thronson, and Jingruo Sun on completing their Honors Theses (April 2023)
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on receiving the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (March, 2023)
🎉 Congratulations to Chengcheng on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Li! (May 2022)
🎉 Congratulations to Chenchen on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Ma! (April 2022)
🎉 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the Best Presentation Award from the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS) (March 2022)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award! (Feb, 2022)
🎉 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the 2022 ASA Nonparametric Statistics Student Paper Award (Jan, 2022)
🎉 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship 2021-2022 (Dec, 2021)
🎉 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Outstanding First Year PhD Student Award (Sep, 2021)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the Department Outstanding Dissertation Award (May 2021)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. He! (April, 2021)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on receiving the 2020 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)! (March, 2021)
🎉 Big Congratulations to Yinqiu, who just accepted a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Statistics Department at the University of Wisconsin! (Feb, 2021)
🎉 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship 2020-2021 (Dec 11, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the Outstanding First Year PhD Student Award (June 4, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (May 15, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to April on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Cho! (May 11, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Chengcheng on receiving a Graduate Student Instructor Award (honorable mention) (April 30, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Gu! (March 20, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! (March 4, 2020)
🎉 Big Congratulations to Yuqi, who just accepted a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Statistics Department at Columbia University! (Feb 20, 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu for winning the Biostats-Stats Shark Tank for Research Ideas in Data Science & Statistics (STRIDES) Proposal Award! (Feb 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu for winning a 2020 ASA Biometrics Section JSM Travel Award with her paper titled "Asymptotically Independent U-Statistics in High-Dimensional Testing"! (Jan 2020)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on receiving the IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award! (Oct 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on receiving her Poster Award at the Symposium to Celebrate 50 Years of Statistics at the University of Michigan (Sept, 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Chengcheng on receiving the Outstanding First Year PhD Student Award (June 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (May 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Yanmeng on receiving Outstanding Undergraduate Major Award (May 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Yanmeng, Xinyue, and Zhihao on completing their Honors Theses (May 2019)
🎉 Congratulations to Yuqi on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2019-2020! (Feb 2019)
🎉 Congratulations, Zhuoran on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Shang! (Nov 2018)
🎉 Congratulations to Yinqiu for receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship 2018
🎉 Congratulations to Zhuoran for receiving the Victor Psychometric Group Travel Award, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) 2017