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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yen-Chi Chen. Previously, I obtained my master’s degree in Statistics at UW in 2020. Before joining UW, I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2018.

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,
• Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation.

On the applied side, I am broadly interested in tackling challenging problems in astronomy and beyond, particularly those related to detecting and analyzing the large-scale structure of the Universe (i.e., the cosmic web) through statistically principled approaches.

Contact

• Department of Statistics, University of Washington (4110 E Stevens Way NE), Seattle, WA, United States 98195
• yikun at uw dot edu