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- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996.
Academic Appointments:
- Daniel H. Silberberg Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School.
- Professor, Applied Math. & Computational Science Graduate Group.
- Associate Scholar, Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Bioinformatics, Perelman School of Medicine.
Administrative Appointment:
- Vice Dean, The Wharton School, 2017-2020
Editorial Appointments:
- Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2010-2012
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2014-2018
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2005-2010
- Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2004-2009
- Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2005-2011
- Associate Editor, Statistics Surveys, 2006-2009
- Editorial Board, Frontiers of Statistics book series, 2009-present
- Guest Editor, Statistica Sinica Special Issue on Multiscale Methods
- Guest Editor, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics Special Issue for the Inaugural IMS-China International Conference
Honors & Awards:
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2024
- President-elect, President, and Past President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2023-2026
- Noether Distinguished Scholar Award, American Statistical Association, 2023
- Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, 2023
- Laplace Lecturer of the Bernoulli Society, 10th World Congress in Probability & Statistics, 2021
- International Chinese Statistical Association Distinguished Achievement Award, 2019
- Peter Whittle Lecturer, Cambridge University, 2018
- ICCM Best Paper Award, 2018
- President-elect, President, and Past President, the International Chinese Statistical Association, 2016-2018
- Hermann Otto Hirschfeld Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2012
- Forum Lecturer, 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, 2010
- Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009
- The COPSS Presidents' Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 2008
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006
Research Interests:
- Statistical machine learning
- High-dimensional statistics
- Large-scale inference
- Functional data analysis
- Statistical decision theory
- Nonparametric function estimation
- Applications to genomics and financial econometrics
Publications: Papers are available here.
Professional Society Membership:
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- American Statistical Association (ASA)
- International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)