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Dr. Li is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences of College of Business and Economics at California State University Fullerton. Before joining CSUF, Dr. Li was Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Central Florida and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Data Sciences and Operations Department at the University of Southern California working with Prof. Yingying Fan and Prof. Jinchi Lv. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Manchester advised by Prof. Jianxin Pan.

His research interests include Feature Screening, Variable Selection, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, High Dimensional Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Missing Data, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Data Mining with applications to Business, Public Health, Medicine, Biology, Engineering and Social Media.  His papers have been published in leading journals in statistics and business, including the Annals of Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, and Journal of Business Research. Examples of his research projects include reducing lending risks for commercial banks, predicting wildfires using big data, forecasting Solar Power using new statistical models, and classifying breast cancer data.