Joined Texas A&M University in 2008, serving as Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program, holding the Dr. Raymond J. Carroll and Dr. Marcia G. Ory Endowed Faculty Fellowships in Statistics.
Education
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Peking University in 2004; received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University in 2008.
Background
Research interests include the development of theory, methodology, and computation for spatial statistics, graph and network data analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, machine learning methods, computational statistics, high-dimensional data analysis, and extreme values. Interdisciplinary research work includes applications of statistics in environmental sciences, geosciences, urban and traffic planning, economics and business, biomedical research, chemometrics, and electrical/manufacturing/petroleum engineering.