Selected Invited Talks
- November 2026: Department of Statistics and Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
- November 2026: ASA Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Conference, New York City.
- September 2026: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.
- July 2026: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) 2026, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- July 2026: ICML 2026 Workshop “Connecting Low-rank Representations in AI: From Practice to Theory”, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- June 2026: IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Hong Kong.
- March 2026: Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University.
- March 2026: Department of Statistics, University of Virginia.
- March 2026: Causal Identification and Discovery Workshop at Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.
- December 2025: Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science.
- October 2025: Department of Statistics Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- October 2025: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Econometrics, Finance, and Statistics Conference, University of Chicago.
- June 2025: 14th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics (BNP 14), UCLA.
- June 2025: International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2025 Applied Statistics Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
- June 2025: Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond (SNAB 2025), Tokyo, Japan.
- May 2025: Seminar, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Business School.
- May 2025: Seminar on Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- April 2025: Math and Data Seminar, Center for Data Science (CDS) at New York University.
- January 2025: Department of Statistics Seminar, University of California, Irvine.
- January 2025: Statistics Empowering Data Science (SEEDS) Conference, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
- December 2024: IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Nice, France.
- November 2024: Department of Statistics Seminar, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
- November 2024: Department of Statistics Colloquium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
- October 2024: NYU Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM).
- August 2024: Joint Statistical Meetings 2024, Portland, Oregon.
- June 2024: Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond (SNAB 2024), Nassau, Bahamas.
- April 2024: Keynote speaker, UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Causality Workshop, University of California San Diego, California.
- April 2024: Theory and Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
- April 2024: National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- March 2024: Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometrics Society (IBS) Spring Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
- November 2023: Online Causal Inference Seminar.
- November 2023: Algebraic Economics Workshop, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Chicago, Illinois.
- October 2023: Algebraic Statistics for Ecological and Biological Systems Workshop, IMSI, Chicago, Illinois.
- October 2023: Big Data and Machine Learning in Econometrics, Finance, and Statistics, Chicago, Illinois.
- October, 2023: Econometrics and Statistics Colloquium, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois.
- August 2023: Joint Statistical Meetings 2023, Toronto, Canada.
- April 2023: Berkeley-Columbia Meeting in Engineering and Statistics, Columbia University.
- October 2022: Statistics Colloquium, Tsinghua University (virtual).
- September 2022: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
- September 2022: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (virtual).
- March 2022: Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (virtual).
- November 2021: Department of Statistics Colloquium Series at University of Missouri (virtual).
- August 2021: Joint Statistical Meetings 2021 (virtual).
- July 2021: Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (virtual).
- April 2021: ETH Young Data Science Researcher Seminar (virtual).
- August 2020: Early career speaker, Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium (virtual).
Selected Honors and Awards
- Best Reviewer Award for Psychometrika (from the Psychometric Society), 2024.
- Outstanding Reviewer, American Educational Research Association and Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023.
- IMS New Researcher Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2021.
- Honorable Mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, University of Michigan, 2020.
- Inaugural IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2020.
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2019-2020.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, 2019.
- Tsinghua Xuetang Talents Program in Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2013-2015.
Workshop Organization
- Jointly with Can Le (UC Davis), Xiaodong Li (UC Davis), Jiashun Jin (Carnegie Mellon University), and Ji Zhu (University of Michigan), we are organizing the 2026 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond (SNAB) in Vietnam, from June 8 – June 10, 2026.
- Jointly with Yuxin Chen, Cong Ma, and Anru Zhang, we are organizing a week-long workshop Statistics meets Tensors: Methodology, Theory, and Applications at IMSI, Chicago in May 2025.
- Jointly with Jingchen Liu and Zhiliang Ying, we are organizing a two-day Psychometrics Workshop at Columbia University in September 2023.