I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas. 

I was a postdoc at SAMSI and the Department of Statistical Science at Duke. My postdoc mentor is Sayan Mukherjee, Hau-tieng Wu and Eric Laber. 

I  obtained my Ph.D. degree from the program Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, supervised by Alfred Hero and XuanLong Nguyen. I obtained my B.S. degree from Nankai University.  

Research Interests

• Latent Variable Models, Hierarchical models

• High Dimensional Statistics

• Bayesian Statistics

• Reinforcement Learning

• Mathematical Statistics/Mathematics of Data Science

• Information Theory

I am broadly interested in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Feel free to email me if you want to chat about anything.