Education

Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University (advisor: Trevor Hastie) 

Research interests

High-dimensional statistics, machine learning, statistical optimization

Applied statistics for business, engineering and sciences

Honors

Three papers on the most cited of all time list in JRSSB, JASA and JCGS

Founders of Statistics Prize (given biennially, at the ISI World Statistics Congress)

Pau-Lu Hsu Prize 2025 (given triennially to an individual under the age of 50)

Fellow elected, American Association For The Advancement Of Science

World's top 2% scientists ranked by Stanford University 

Best Paper Award in Applied Mathematics, 2019 ICCM

Fellow of American Statistical Association

Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Scholar of the College, 2015

Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2014--2019

Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award, 2013

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Tweedie award, 2011

McKnight Presidential Fellow, 2010

NSF career award, 2009

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2008