News, travels, and upcoming events

• Teaching the new course STAT 161 in the fall, the course syllabus is here.

• Design and Analysis of Experiment at Virginia Tech during May 15 - 17, 2024

• Chen, He, Lin, Sun (2024), ``Grouped Orthogonal Arrays and Their Construction Methods''. Submitted. 

• Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto during Aug 7-11, 2023

• World Congress Meeting in Ottawa during July 17-20, 2023

• ICSA China Conference in Chengdu, China during June 30 -July 1, 2023

• Lin, C.D. and Ranjan, P. (2023). ``Sequential Designs for Computer Experiments,' book chapter, submitted 

• Spring Research Conference 2023 (the conference website is, https://sites.google.com/view/src2023)  will take place on May 24-26, 2023 at Banff Center, Alberta, Canada

• Co-editor for the New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science (NEJSDS) special issue of “Design and Analysis of Experiments for Data Science”, submission details at https://nestat.org/news/2022/04/design/

• Spring Research Conference 2022 (the conference website is, https://sites.google.com/view/src2022)  has been postpone to May 24-26, 2023 at Banff Center, Alberta, Canada

• Optimal Design Emulator: A Point Process Approach. with Pratola, M.T. and Craigmile, P.F., submitted, 2022. 

• A New and Flexible Design Construction for Orthogonal Arrays for Modern Applications. with Y. He and F. Sun,  The Annals of Statistics, Accepted, 2021.

• Bootstrap Adjustment to Minimum p-Value Method for Predictive Classification with Li, N., Song, Y., and Tu, D., Statistica Sinica, Accepted, 2021

• Doubly Coupled Designs for Computer Experiments with both Qualitative and Quantitative Factors. with Yang, F.,  Zhou, Y., and He. Y., Statistica Sinica Accepted, 2021.

• The Lasso with Nearly Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs with Chien, P. Z. G and Deng, X.,  accepted, 2021. 

• Sequential Design for Computer Experiments with Quantitative and Qualitative Factors, with Cai, X, Xu, L, Lin, C.D., Hong, Y. and Deng, X, submitted, 2021

• EzGP: Easy-to-Interpret Gaussian Process Models for Computer Experiments with Both Quantitative and Qualitative Factors, with Qian, X., Mandal, A., and Deng, X. SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification,  to appear, 2020. 

• Global Fitting of the Response Surface via Estimating Multiple Contours of a Simulator, with F. Yang and P. Ranjan, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, to appear, 2020.

• A Sequential Design Approach for Calibrating Dynamic Computer Simulators, with R. Zhang and P. Ranjan, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 7(4), 1245–1274. 2019.