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Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2001.
    Advisor: Professor Bradley Efron.
  • M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, March 2000.
  • B.S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, July 1997.

  Experience

  • July 2008 — Present, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.
  • July 2018 — June 2019, Chair, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
  • April 2017 — Present, Professor of Biostatistics (secondary), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
  • 2018 — Present, Affiliated Faculty, Quantitative Biology Initiative, Harvard University.
  • 2016 — Present, Affiliated Faculty, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University.
  • July 2017 — July 2018, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore.
  • September 2007 — December 2007, Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago.
  • July 2005 — June 2008, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University.
  • July 2001 — June 2005, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.
  • September 1997 — June 2001, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.

  Honors and Awards

  •  2018. Joint lecturer of the Bernoulli Society and the European Mathematical Society.
  •  2015. Wen-Bao Chang Award.
  •  2013. Guggenheim Fellow.
  •  2012. COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents’ Award.
  •  2012. Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  •  2011. Elected member, International Statistical Institute.
  •  2010. American Statistical Association Outstanding Statistical Application Award.
  •  2009. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecturer.
  •  2009. Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award.
  •  2008. Speaker chosen for the “Best of the Annals of Applied Statistics” session at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
  •  2007. Fellow, American Statistical Association.
  •  2007. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Richard Tweedie Award.
  •  2005 — 2010. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
  •  1997 — 2000. Stanford Graduate Fellowship (offered to 100 graduate students each year at Stanford University).
  •  1995. Japanese Sumitomo Bank Scholarship.
  •  1992. Selected into the China National Training Team (30 members) for International Physics Olympics.
  •  1992. Selected into the China National Training Team (15 members) for International Olympiad in Informatics.

  Grants

  • NSF grants, Division of Mathematical Sciences, July 2002 — June 2006, July 2005 — June 2010, July 2015 — June 2019, July 2018 — Present.
  • NIH / NIGMS R01 grant. July 2009 — June 2014.
  • US Army Research Office grant, May 2016 — February 2017.
  • Harvard University Clarke/Cooke Fund. April 2002 — June 2004.

  Editorial Boards

  • Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, 2017 — Present.
  • Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 2013 — 2019.
  • Editor, STAT, 2013 — 2019.
  • Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2010 — 2012.
  • Associate Editor, Statistical Science, 2011 — 2013.
  • Associate Editor, Bernoulli, 2010 — 2014.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Applications and Case Studies, 2009 — 2012.
  • Editor, CHANCE Magazine, 2008 — 2013.
  • Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2007 — 2009, 2012 — 2015.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2006 — 2009.
  • Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2005 — 2011, 2014 — 2017.

  Professional Activities

  • 2016. Invited session organizer, “The 4th IMS Asia Pacic Rim Meeting”, Hong Kong.
  • 2015. Invited session organizer, “The 60th ISI World Statistics Congress”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2015. Invited session organizer, ENAR spring meeting, Miami, Florida.
  • 2015. External Review Committee for the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica.
  • 2015. Committee on Nominations, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  • 2013. Invited session organizer, ENAR spring meeting, Orlando, Florida.
  • 2012. Scientific committee, “ICSA 2012 Applied Statistics Symposium”, Boston.
  • 2011. Scientific committee, “IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability 2011”, Xi’an, China.
  • 2010 — 2012. Member, Board of Directors, International Chinese Statistical Association.
  • 2009 — 2010. Program Chair of the International Chinese Statistical Association for the Joint Statistical Meeting 2010, Vancouver.
  • 2009. Organizing committee member, “IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability”, Weihai, China.
  • 2009. Organizing committee member, “Warwick Mathematics Institute Symposium on Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Related Methods”, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
  • 2008 — 2011. Institute of Mathematical Statistics’ Committee on Publications (Committee chair: 2009 — 2010).
  • 2007. Symposium co-chair, “Symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvard Statistics Department”, Harvard University.
  • 2007. IMS representative, “International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics — High Dimensional Data Analysis”, Kunming, China.
  • 2007. Organizing committee member, “The Third Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods”, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2006. Organizing committee member, “International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics — Biostatistics and Bioinformatics”, Changchun, China.
  • 2005. Invited session organizer, “The 19th New England Statistics Symposium”, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
  • 2005. Symposium committee chair, “Some challenging applications of statistical modeling and analysis: Symposium honoring Professor Arthur Dempster’s retirement”, Harvard University.
  • 2004. Program Chair, “The 18th New England Statistics Symposium”.
  • 2004. Associate Program Chair and Chair of General Methodology for the Joint Statistics Meeting 2004, Toronto.
  • 2004. Invited Session Organizer, ENAR 2004 Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh.

  Departmental and University Services

  • 2018 — 2019. Chair, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
  • 2016 — Present. Committee member, Data Science Planning Committee, Harvard University.
  • 2016 — 2017. Committee member, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellows Program, Harvard University.
  • 2011 — 2014. Committee member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Information Technology, Harvard University.
  • 2010 — 2012. Committee member, Applied Computational Science Curriculum Advisory Committee, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
  • 2006 — 2013, 2015 — 2017. co-Director of graduate studies, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
  • 2002 — 2005. co-Head Tutor for undergraduate studies, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.

  Publications