I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences within the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois Chicago.
From 2017 to 2023, I was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining UCSD, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University from 2015 to 2017, supervised by Jianqing Fan; and as a research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne from 2013 to 2015, supervised by Aurore Delaigle. I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013, advised by Qi-Man Shao.
Positions
08/2023 -- Present, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois Chicago
07/2021 -- 06/2023, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
07/2017 -- 06/2021, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
09/2015 -- 06/2017, Research Associate (Postdoc), Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
08/2013 -- 08/2015, Research Fellow (Postdoc), School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Editorial Service
Current:
Associate Editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association (01/2026-Present)
Associate Editor for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (01/2022-Present)
Associate Editor for Annals of Applied Probability (01/2022-Present)
Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica (07/2025-Present)
Past:
Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics (01/2022-12/2024)
Associate Editor for Statistics (07/2020-08/2023)
Awards
Hellman Fellow (UCSD), 2020
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Travel Award, 2014
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Laha Travel Award, 2012
HKUST Overseas Research Awards, 2012
Grants
Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP230100147, 2023–2026, partner investigator; PI: Aurore Delaigle)
NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Award (NSF-DMS 2401268, 2023-2025, PI)
NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Award (NSF-DMS 2113409, 2021-2023, PI)
UCSD Hellman Fellowship (2020-2021, PI)
UCSD General Campus Research Grant (2020-2021, PI)
NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Award (NSF-DMS 1811376, 2018-2022, PI)
UCSD General Campus Research Grant (2018-2019, PI)