About me

I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS) at the University of Notre Dame.  

I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2021. I was very fortunate to be co-advised by Dr. Runze Li and Dr. Lingzhou Xue. Prior to graduate school, I received my B.S. in Statistics from School of the Gifted Young  at  University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016.

I became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2025.

My research interests include:

• Statistical foundations of AI & machine learning

• Statistical inference with black-box learners (deep learning architectures, large language models, etc.)

• High-dimensional statistics & large-scale statistical inference

• Causal learning and inference

• Statistical applications in business analytics, econometrics, public health, and social sciences. 

My research is partially supported by NIH R01GM152812 (Multiple-PI role).