Welcome to my website! I am an Assistant Professor in Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, Haslam College of Business, The University of Tennessee Knoxville.


Contact information

Address: 239 Stokely Management Center, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Email: lgao13@utk.edu

Education

2015. 08  - 2019. 07, Ph.D., Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, supervised by  Qi-Man Shao

2011. 09 - 2015. 07, B.S., Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Academic Positions

2022.08 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee Knoxville.

2019. 08 - 2022.07, Postdoctoral scholar, Data Sciences and Operations Department, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Supervisors: Yingying Fan and Jinchi Lv .

Research Interests

High-dimensional statistics and inference

Nonparametric statistics

Reinforcement learning

Asymptotic  theory

Honors and Awards

Professional Service

Updated in July 2024.