ABOUT

Employment

• 2022-Present: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University

• 2017-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University

• 2014-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Mentor: Professor Ming Yuan)

Education

• 2009-2013: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong

Thesis: Statistical learning algorithms under entropy criteria 

Supervisor: Professor Ding-Xuan Zhou

• 2005-2009: B.Sc. in Statistics, Beijing Normal University

Research Group

Students under supervision

• 2025-Present: Kunpeng Yue (Ph.D.) 

• 2024-Present: Yuxi Zhang (Ph.D.)

• 2024-Present: Ruohan Shen (Mphil)

• 2023-Present: Chao Wang (Ph.D.)

• 2023-Present: Fangjia Dong (Ph.D.)

Graduated students

• Yingqiao Zhang (Ph.D.), 2024

Thesis: Information Theoretic Learning with Deep Neural Networks 

• Renyuan Ni (Ph.D.), 2024

Thesis: Communication-efficient Distributed Optimization and Federated Learning 

• Keli Guo (Ph.D.), 2022

Thesis: Statistical Learning for Kernel-Based Functional Linear Regression 

Previous Research Associate

• Puyu Wang (2023-2025) 

• Fusheng Lv (2018-2020) 

Previous Research Assistant

• Baiyu Chen (Aug 2025 - Dec 2025)

• Yanmei Shi (May 2025 - Dec 2025)

• Xiaotong Liu (Jan 2025 - Dec 2025)

• Qianxin Yi (Jan 2025 - May 2025)

• Aoli Yang (May 2024 - Nov 2025)

• Zirui Sun (Apr 2024 - Aug 2024)

• Zichu Liu (Sep 2023 - Feb 2024)

• Tong Wei (Jul 2023 - Sep 2023)