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I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at University of Washington (UW), Seattle, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yen-Chi Chen. During 2019-2020, I served as the Master Student Representative for our department. Before joining UW, I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2018. During my undergraduate, I was also an honor student of the Yat-Sen Honor College, an elite liberal undergraduate institution of SYSU.

Research Interests

My current theoretical research interests lie in

  • Nonparametric Statistics (Kernel Smoothing),
  • Optimization on Nonlinear Manifolds,
  • High-dimensional Inference with Missing Data,
  • Causal Inference for Continuous Treatments.

On the applied side, I am broadly interested in challenging problems in astronomy, with a focus on how to detect and analyze the large-scale structure of the Universe (i.e., cosmic web) in a statistically motivated way.

Education