Biographical Sketch
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Sep 2022 – Present
- M.S. in Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Sep 2018 – Mar 2020
- B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Aug 2014 – Jun 2018
- Exchange Student in Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2016
- Honor Student in Applied Mathematics Group, Yat-Sen Honor College, Sun Yat-Sen University, Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
Research Experience
- Apr 2019 - Present: Research Student at Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle
- Research Focus 1: Nonparametric Density Estimation With Manifold Constraints, Mode Clustering, and Optimization on Manifolds
- Research Focus 2: High-Dimensional Statistical Inference with Incomplete Data
- Advisors: Prof. Yen-Chi Chen and Prof. Alexander Giessing
- Jun 2021 - Jul 2022: Visiting Research Student at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- Research Focus: Cosmic Web Detection and Analysis Under the Spherical and Conic Geometries
- Host: Prof. Rafael S. de Souza
- Summer 2017: Summer PhD Research Experience Program at Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Research Focus: Bayesian Network Structure Learning
- Host: Prof. Jiming Liu
Teaching Experience
Instructor:
Teaching Assistant:
- Machine Learning for Big Data (Winter 2023)
- Statistical Inference (Autumn 2022)
- Matrix Analysis and its Applications (Spring 2018)
- Fourier Analysis and its Applications (Fall 2017)
Work Experience
- Jun 2023 - Sep 2023: Applied Scientist PhD Intern
- Ads Data Science and Analytics, Uber Technologies Inc
- May 2018 - Aug 2018: Statistical Consulting Intern in Cyber Laboratory
- Risk Assurance Department, PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Consulting (Shanghai) Co Limited, Guangzhou Branch
Professional Service
Reviewer:
- Journal of Machine Learning Research, Electronic Journal of Statistics
- AISTATS (2024, 2023, 2022)
Scholarships & Awards
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Jun 2018
- Kwang-Hua Education Scholarship, Dec 2017
- The only awarded student among roughly 1000 students in our department
- Awarded by the Kwang-Hua Education Foundation
- Shenzhen Financial Institute (SFI) Scholarship (Academic), May 2017
- One of the only two students among more than 300 junior (Year 3) students in our department
- Awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- AEON Donation Scholarship for Excellent Students, Dec 2016
- The only awarded student among roughly 1000 students in our department
- SYSU Outstanding Student Scholarship (First Prize), Sep 2016 & Sep 2017
- SYSU Outstanding Student Scholarship (Second Prize), Sep 2015
- SYSU Freshman Soccer Cup, Second Place, Dec 2015
- I played as the Captain and led our team to the final (I no longer play any offical soccer match starting from the beginning of 2020; see my retirement letter. However, I would occasionally play some noncompetitive soccer games in my spare time.)
Skills
- LaTeX
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- SQL
- Computer Programming
- Python
- R
- Matlab
- Mathematica
- Language
- Chinese Mandarin (Native)
- Cantonese (Native)
- English (Fluent)