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 Royal Statistical Society Series B (01/2022-Present)
Associate Editor for The Annals of Applied Probability (01/2022-Present)
Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica (07/2025-Present)
Past:
Associate Editor for The Annals of Statistics (01/2022-12/2024)
Associate Editor for Statistics (07/2020-08/2023)
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)
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