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 Prof. 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
Self-normalized limit theory
Stein's method and its applications
Honors and Awards
IMS New Researcher Travel Award, 2021.
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, 2015 - 2019.
Oversea Research Award, CUHK, 2017 - 2018.
National Scholarship (China), 2012 - 2014.
Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University, 2015.
Professional Service
Referee for The Annals of Statistics, JRSSB, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Science China Mathematics, Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
Session organizer
"Session 47: Recent Advances in Large-Scale Data Analysis", 2022 ICSA China Conference, Xi'an, China, July 2022
"Session EO314: Recent Advances in Statistical Learning and Analysis for complex data", CMStatistics 2023, Berlin, Germany, December 2023
Updated in Dec 2023.