Research Papers

(# indicates authors contributed equally or authors are listed in alphabetical order; @ indicates students mentored by me ) 

Statistical Methods & Theory: 


A novel approach of high dimensional linear hypothesis testing problem. (link, pdf). 

Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).


A unified combination framework for dependent tests with applications to microbiome association studies. (link, pdf, code).

Biometrics.


Power-enhanced two-sample mean tests for high-dimensional microbiome compositional data. (link, pdf).

Biometrics.


Fisher's combined probability test for high-dimensional covariance matrices. (link, pdf, code).

Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).


Power enhancement for testing multi-factor asset pricing models via Fisher's method. (link, pdf). 

Journal of Econometrics (JoE).


Projection test for mean vector in high-dimensions. (link, pdf, code). 

Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).


Power-enhanced simultaneous test of high-dimensional mean vectors and covariance matrices with application to gene-set testing. (link, pdf, code).  

Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).


Multiple-splitting projection test for high dimensional mean vectors. (link, pdf, code). 

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).


Inverse moment methods for sufficient forecasting using high-dimensional predictors. (link, pdf, code). 

Biometrika.


Nonparametric estimation and conformal inference of sufficient forecasting with a diverging number of factors.  (link, pdf, code). 

[ Winner of 2018 ASA Business and Economic Statistics Best Student Paper Award ].

 Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES).


Statistical Machine Learning & Applications


Factor Augmented Tensor-on-Tensor Neural Networks. (link, pdf)

AAAI 2025. [Acceptance rate: 23.4%]


Assessment of supervised longitudinal learning methods: Insights from predicting low birth weight and very low birth weight using prenatal ultrasound measurements. (link, pdf)

Computers in Biology and Medicine. [Impact factor: 7.0]


Generalized causal tree for uplift modeling.   (link, pdf, code)

IEEE BigData 2023. [Acceptance rate: 17.5%]


Quantifying the effectiveness of marketing campaigns: a bootstrap proportion test for brand lift testing.    (link, pdf, code). 

CIKM 2023.  [Acceptance rate: 24%]