Awarded as Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by the College of LAS at UIUC; recipient of the NSF Career award in 2004-2009; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science; current Co-Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods; received multiple grants from NSF, NCI, etc.
Research Experience
Professor at Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara starting July 2025; previously Chancellor's Professor at UC Irvine, and Data Science Founder Professor of Statistics and the Director of the Illinois Statistics Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education
Received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998.
Background
Her research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding unstructured large-scale data, developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms on text sentiment analysis, automatic tagging and summarization, recommender systems, tensor imaging data and network data analyses for complex heterogeneous data. Her research has impacts in many different fields such as biomedical studies, genomic research, public health research, and social and political sciences.
Miscellany
Other research interests include Machine Learning, Tensor Data, Medical Imaging, Recommender Systems, Network Data, Longitudinal/Correlated Data Analysis, Missing Data, High-dimensional Data, Model Selection, Nonparametric Models.