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Associate Editor

  • 2025 -
    • Bernoulli
  • 2020 - present
    • Statistica Sinica
  • 2019 - present
    • 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
  • 2008
    Master of Science in Bioinformatics
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 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