Biography

Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
  Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-2021
  Advisor: Yao Xie
  Major: Statistics; Minor: Operations Research

• B.S. in Statistics
  University of Science and Technology of China, 2012-2016

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, 2024 - Now
  Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)
  University of Minnesota

• Assistant Professor, 2021 - 2024
  School of Data Science (SDS)
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ)

Visiting Experience

• Visiting Fellow, ECE, Princeton University, Fall 2023.
  (Hosted by Prof. Vincent Poor and Prof. Mengdi Wang)

• Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Fall 2022.
  (Hosted by Prof. Xiuyuan Cheng)

• Computer Science Department, Rutgers University. November 2019.
  (Invited by Prof. George V. Moustakides)

• Computer Science Department, Rutgers University. June 2018.
  (Invited by Prof. George V. Moustakides)

• High-Dimensional Statistical Modeling Unit (RIKEN AIP), Kyoto, Japan, July 2018
  Summer Intern. Mentor: Makoto Yamada

Academic Editorship

• Associate Editor, Statistics and Computing, 2024/03 - Now.

Research Awards and Honors

• Robert Goodell Brown Fellowship for excellence in research (Data Science and Statistics), ISyE, 2021

• IDEaS-TRIAD research fellowship, Spring 2021.

• Selected to participate in the 2020 EECS Rising Star Workshop

• ARC-TRIAD fellowship, Spring 2020

• Finalist of INFORMS QSR best student paper competition, 2019

• Runner-up for the INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize, 2019.

• Third Prize, poster competition at Georgia Statistics Day 2019.

• Best Poster Award. WuFest 2019.

• Best Poster Award(Honorable Mention). Georgia Statistics Day 2018.

Teaching Awards and Certificates

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Fall 2020.

• Tech to Teaching Certificate, obtained Summer 2020.

Selected Recent Research Presentations

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 2025.

• Allerton Conference, UIUC, September 2025.

• EcoSta, Japan, August 2025.

• ISIT, Ann Arbor, June 2025.

• Department seminar, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, February 2025.

• CMStatistics, London, December 2024.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 2024.

• Department seminar, Department of ACMA, University of Notre Dame, September 2024.

• Allerton Conference, UIUC, September 2024.

• Bernoulli-IMS World Congress, Bochum, Germany, August 2024.

• Applied Probability and Statistics Seminar Series, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College, CUNY.

• Cornell SDS Seminar, November 2022.

• UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory SINE Seminar. Oct 2022.

• Duke Applied Math Seminar. Sep 2022.