Resume
Academic Achievements
- Slides for recent talks:
- - Slides at NSF@75
- - Soft-constrained Schrodinger bridge
- - Fast mixing MCMC methods for structure learning
- - Importance tempering of MCMC schemes
- - More details on rejection-free multiple-try
- - An overview of my recent works on MCMC methodology
- - Complexity of local MCMC methods for high-dimensional variable selection
Research Experience
- March 2024: Hyunwoong Chang (currently a PhD student supervised by me) will join the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fall 2024.
- July 2024: Guanxun Li (former PhD student) will join the Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fall 2024.
Background
- Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University. Research interests include Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, directed acyclic graphs, variable selection, stochastic control and optimal stopping, diffusion models, high-dimensional Bayesian inference, statistical genetics and genomics.
Miscellany
- Lecture notes for STAT 689, STAT 614, and STAT 621 are now available on my website.