I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas. I am mainly interested in foundations of AI, data sciences, statistics, and related fields.

I was a postdoc at SAMSI and the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. My postdoc mentor is firstly Sayan Mukherjee. After Sayan moved to Germany,  I also worked with Eric Laber. 

I  obtained my Ph.D. degree from the program Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Even though the Ph.D. degree is applied mathematics, I am supervised by Alfred Hero from EECS and XuanLong Nguyen from Statistics. I obtained my B.S. degree in Computational Mathematics from Nankai University.  

Research Interests

• Latent Variable Models, Hierarchical models

• Foundations of AI

• Reinforcement Learning & Operations Management

• High Dimensional Statistics

• Bayesian Statistics

I am broadly interested in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. I am looking for motivated PhD students and research interns with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, operations research, computer science, or other related fields.