Ph.D. (2020- 2023) 

PhD Thesis Title: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics harnessing the forces of data in survival analysis and change-point detection.

Email: 20039527r@connect.polyu.hk

Full-time Ph.D.

Co-supervisor: Prof. Zhanli HU, SIAT, CAS

Thesis Theme: Bayesian factor model and its application in medical image analysis. 

Email: Leonora-ran.jiang@connect.polyu.hk

Full-time Ph.D.

Co-supervisor: Dr. Elynn Chen, NYU

Thesis Theme:  Factor-analysis Learning for Dynamic Multi-modality Data

2021-2024  M.Phil in Statistics.

2017-2021  B.S. in Statistics.

Email: 550347471@qq.com

Full-time Ph.D.

Co-supervisor: Prof. CAI Jing, PolyU

Email: 24056659r@connect.polyu.hk

Project Assistant 

Email: 23059218g@connect.polyu.hk

Project Assistant 

Email: 24066161g@connect.polyu.hk 

2022 - Present

Email: 22099947d@connect.polyu.hk

2022 - Present

The Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS)

Email: 22098789d@connect.polyu.hk

2023 - Present

The Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS)

Email: 23097386d@connect.polyu.hk 

2025 - Present

The Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS)

Email: 24109385d@connect.polyu.hk 

2025 - Present

The Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS)

Email: 24101368d@connect.polyu.hk 

2025 - Present

Email: 22098858d@connect.polyu.hk 

2025 - Present

From: Central China Normal University

Email: kangfu@polyu.edu.hk 

2025 - Present

From: Changchun University of Technology

Email: xuping.xu@polyu.edu.hk; 1202112007@stu.ccut.edu.cn 

Postdoc (2020)

Interests: Statistical modelling and inference for network data and tensor/matrix data. 

Present: Lecturer at South China Normal University

M.Phil and Ph.D. (2012- 2018) 

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Hypothesis testing for two-sample functional/longitudinal data

M.Phil Dissertation Title: Testing serial correlation in partially linear additive models

Present: PostDoc at NICHD, NIH, USA

Ph.D. (2016- 2020) 

PhD Thesis Title: Supervised statistical inference for data of versatile dimensionality with application to GWAS studies

Present: Principal Statistician at BeiGene, China 

Google Scholar: Sheng Xu 

Ph.D. (2020- 2023) 

PhD Thesis Title: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics harnessing the forces of data in survival analysis and change-point detection.

Present: Postdoc at PolyU

M.Phil (2018- 2020)

M.Phil Dissertation Title: Functional Analysis of hospital admissions due to respiratory diseases between 2010 to 2017 in Hong Kong

Present: Ph.D. in financial mathematics at PolyU.

M.Phil (2019- 2021)

M.Phil Dissertation Title: A Bayesian comparison in Stan and NIMBLE by trimmed mean regression

Present: Product Manager at Huawei.

M.Phil (2022 - 2024)

M.Phil Dissertation Title: On Bayesian prediction under nonparametric transformation models with doubly censored data

Present: Ph.D. student at Department of Applied Social Sciences, PolyU

2023

M.S. Dissertation Title:  Bayesian matrix factor model with Indian buffet process priors for image denoising.

Present: RA at PolyU.

2022

M.S. Dissertation Title: Latent tensor regression based on the Tucker tensor factor model with application to breast cancer study

Present: Ph.D. student at CUHK.

2022

M.S. Dissertation Title: Variational Bayesian inference in factor models for high-dimensional vector observations

Present:  Collaborative Ph.D. Scheme by PolyU & SIAT, CAS

2020-2022

Project Title: Joint feature screening incorporating network structure among responses.  

Present: Year-2 Ph.D. student, financed by the full Ph.D. scholarship at the Biostatistics scheme, University of Michigan, USA. 

*He is the first current undergraduate in AMA that has received a Ph.D. offer with full scholarship.

 2022

Project Title: Assessing Error Rates in Multiple Examiner Groups Using Regression Methods.

Present: PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park

 2022

Present: PhD student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business