“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” --- John von Neumann “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and end in it.” – Albert Einstein

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Ph.D. in Statistics, Sept, 2003 – July, 2006
• Tsinghua University
  School of Economics and Management
  B.A. in Economics, Sept, 1998 – July, 2002

Employment

• Dept of Statistics, UCLA
  Full Professor, 2021--Now
• Dept of Statistics, Purdue University
  Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, 2008/2013/2016--2021
• SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute)
  Postdoc Fellow, Aug, 2007 – July, 2008
• Dept of Statistical Science, Duke University
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Aug, 2006 – July, 2007

Visiting Positions

• Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall, 2019
• The Alan Turing Institute, UK, May, 2017
• UC-Berkeley, March, 2015
• Princeton, 2014 -- 2015
• SAMSI, 2012 -- 2013

Awards

• IMS Fellow, 2020
• Adobe Data Science Faculty Award, 2020
• University Faculty Scholar, 2018
• Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, 2014
• Noether Young Scholar Award, 2012
• NSF CAREER Award, 2012
  

Current Editorial Work

• Associate Editor for JASA -- T&M, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Blockchain Research