Academic Appointments:
Administrative Appointment:
- Vice Dean for China Initiatives, The Wharton School
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, J. Nonparametric Statistics
Special Issue for the Inaugural IMS-China International Conference
Honors & Awards:
- President, the International Chinese Statistical Association, 2017
- Hermann Otto Hirschfeld Lectures, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 2012
- Forum Lecture, 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, August 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:
- High-dimensional statistics
- Statistical machine learning
- Large-scale inference
- Functional data analysis
- Statistical decision theory
- Nonparametric function estimation
- Applications to genomics, chemical identification, and medical imaging
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