Research Interests

I am broadly interested in data science and artificial intelligence, especially their mathematical and statistical foundation.

My research work has been centered around optimal transport, Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, and optimization, with applications in machine learning and mathematical biology.

Selected Awards

• Norton Prize for outstanding thesis research in the Department of Statistics at UIUC, 2023

• ASA SBSS student paper award, 2023

• First Prize of Fudan University Scholarship, 2018

• Fudan Professional Scholarship for undergraduate, 2016-2018

• Silver Medal in China Mathematics Olympiad, 2015

Contact

Email: rentian2 (at) math (dot) ubc (dot) ca

Office: PIMS building, room 4122, Vancouver, BC, Canada