Research Interests
Statistical Learning and Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Inference
Nonparametric and Semiparametric Statistics
Quantile Regression and Distributional Learning
Extreme Value Theory and Tail Inference
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
Biostatistics and Biomedical Data Science
Grant Acknowledgement
01/2025-12/2027, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2436216, "Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Advancing Mathematical and Statistical Foundations to Enhance Human Digital Twin of Neurophysiological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification", Principal Investigator (co-PI: Chung Hyuk Park)
09/2024-08/2027, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2426174, "CDS&E-MSS: Collaborative Research: Unlocking Complex Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Spatial-Temporal Data with Adaptive Quantile Learning," Principal Investigator
07/2024-06/2026, National Institute of Health, "Antigen-Specific Immunosuppression of Myasthenia Gravis by CAR-Engineered Tregs," Co-Investigator (PI: Jie Luo)
09/2017-08/2022, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1712760 "Inference for High Dimensional Quantile Regression," Principal Investigator
04/2016-03/2019, KAUST OSR-2015-CRG4-2582 "Statistical Process Monitoring and Risk Assessment for Engineering and Spatial Environmental Applications," Co-Investigator
09/2015-06/2016, GWU CCAS (Columbian College of Arts & Sciences) Dean's Interdisciplinary Collaboration Excellence Award on "Characterization of Social Signals in Components of Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Laboratory Mice," Co-Investigator
09/2012-08/2017, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1149355 (DMS-1525692) "CAREER: A New and Pragmatic Framework for Modeling and Predicting Conditional Quantiles in Data-sparse Regions," Principal Investigator
08/2012-07/2013, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1216197 "2012 International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS2012)," Principal Investigator
09/2010-08/2013, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1007420, "Analysis of Incomplete Data in Quantile Regression and Semiparametric Models," Principal Investigator
09/2009-08/2011, National Science Foundation US-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research, "Semiparametric Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data," Principal Investigator
09/2007-08/2010, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-0706963, "Collaborative Research: Nonparametric Methods for Emerging Technologies in Bioinformatics," Principal Investigator
07/2007-06/2008, NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, "A Nonparametric Method for the Detection of Alternative Splicing with Exon Tiling Array Data," Principal Investigator
