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Area Chair
- 
        2026
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
 
 
Associate Editor
- 
        2025 - present
- Bernoulli
 
 - 
        2020 - present
- Statistica Sinica
 
 - 
        2019 - 2024
- Canadian Journal of Statistics
 
 
Honors and Awards
- 
        2020
- Simons Fellowship in Mathematics
 - Associate, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC
 
 - 
        2018
- NSF CAREER Award
 - Arnold O. Beckman Award, University of Illinois
 
 
Education
- 
        2013
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Advised by Z. Jane Wang
 
 - 
        2008
Master of Science in Bioinformatics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Advised by Raphael Gottardo and Kevin P. Murphy
 
 - 
        2006
Bachelor of Science
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Experience
- 
        2023 - Present
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Southern California
 - 
        2023 - Present
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - 
        2019 - 2023
Associate Professor of Statistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - 
        2013 - 2019
Assistant Professor of Statistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - 
        2019 - 2020
Visiting Faculty
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 - 
        2020 - 2023
Affiliated Member
Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois
 - 
        2014 - 2023
Affiliated Faculty
Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - 
        2014 - 2023
Affiliated Faculty
Informatics Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - 
        2011 - 2012
Post-doc and research intern
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago