Education
• PhD in Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.
Doctoral Dissertation: Fully Nonparametric Efficient Estimation for Some Causal Inference Problems and Well-posedness on Mean Field Theory.
• BSc in Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2011.
Academic Appointment
• Associate Professor (with tenure), Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, August/2022 ~ current.
• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Sep/2016 ~ July/2022.
• Research Fellow, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Feb/2016 ~ Aug/2016.
• Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sep/2015 ~ Jan/2016.
Administrative Appointment
• Vice Dean, Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, June/2025 ~ current.
Honors and Awards
• National High-Level Talent Special Support Programs (国家“万人计划”)- Outstanding Young Talents, 2024.
• Excellent Research Award (the First Prize), Renmin University of China, 2023.
• Excellent Research Award (the Second Prize), Renmin University of China, 2022.
• Overseas Research Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014). (Destination: University of Washington, USA)
Supervised Students
PhD Students:
• Lukang Huang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2016-2021.
Doctoral Dissertation: Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for Some Causal Effects.
First Position: Lecturer at School of Statistics and Data Science, Nankai University.
• Haoze Hou, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2021-2026 (expected).
• Yulin Zhang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2021-2026 (expected).
• Zixuan Xu, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2022-2026 (expected).
• Zeqi Wu, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2023-2028 (expected).
• Meiling Wang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2023-2028 (expected).
Master Students:
• Yao Dong, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2020-2022.
Master Dissertation: Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects using Random Forests.
First Position: Algorithm Engineer in Ant Group.
• Xiao Han, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2020-2022.
Master Dissertation: Disease Diagnosis Based on Machine Learning.
First Position: Data Analyst in Trip.com Group.
• Zixuan Xu, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2020-2022.
Master Dissertation: Independence Test Based on Least-squares Density-Ratio Estimation.
First Position: PhD in Institute of Statistics & Big Data, Renmin University of China.
• Mengcai Zhang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2020-2022.
Master Dissertation: Estimating Quantile Treatment Effect with SVM.
First Position: Data Scientist in JD.com, Inc.
• Haitao Zhao, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2020-2022.
Master Dissertation: Application of Graph Neural Networks in Community Detection.
First Position: Algorithm Engineer in ByteDance.
• Siyu Wang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2022-2024.
• Jin Wang, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2022-2024.
• Fangzhu Ji, Statistics, Renmin University of China, 2022-2024.
Referee Service
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of Econometrics
• Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
• Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
• Statistica Sinica
• The Canadian Journal of Statistics
• Journal of Multivariate Analysis
• Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Visiting Experience
• Department of Mathematics, National Central University, June 2009-January 2010.
• Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, May 2014-August 2014, invited by Gary Chan.
• Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2015-January 2016, invited by Phillip Yam.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. May 2017, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. October 2017, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
• Faculty of Economics, Kobe University. December 2017, invited by Shigeyuki Hamori.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. August 2018, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
• Faculty of Economics, Kobe University. December 2018, invited by Shigeyuki Hamori.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. January, 2019, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. January, 2020, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
• Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University. April and May, 2020, invited by Ching-Kang Ing.
• Institute of Statistics, National Central University. January, 2023, invited by Li-Hsien Sun.
Languages
• Chinese (native speaker), English, Japanese (JLPT N1).