Research group

My Team

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The research team is currently focused on building rigorous statistical foundations for modern data science and AI, with particular emphasis on learning from heterogeneous, sensitive, and distributed data. Working with a group of collaborators, the team pursues research in transfer learning, differential privacy, federated and distributed learning, causal inference, and high-dimensional statistics.The overarching goal is to characterize fundamental limits and develop optimal, adaptive, and practically useful methodologies that operate effectively under privacy, communication, heterogeneity, and resource constraints. The team also actively applies these methods to domains such as genomics and financial econometrics.

Current members

Ph.D. Students

Junu Lee Kevin Jiang Wanteng Ma Swapnaneel Bhattacharyya

Past members

Name Role Placement
Wenguang Sun Ph.D. Student 2003-08 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · North Carolina State University
Lie Wang Ph.D. Student 2003-08 Assistant Professor · Department of Mathematics · MIT
Weidong Liu Postdoc 2009-11 Professor · Dept of Math & Institute of Natural Sciences · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Rossi Luo Postdoc 2009-11 Assistant Professor · Department of Biostatistics · Brown University
Jichun Xie Ph.D. Student 2006-11 Assistant Professor · Dept of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics · Duke University
Aditya Guntuboyina Postdoc 2011 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of California at Berkeley
Jessie Jeng Postdoc 2009-12 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · North Carolina State University
Yihong Wu Postdoc 2011-12 Assistant Professor · Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yin Xia Ph.D. Student 2008-13 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of North Carolina
Dave Zhao Postdoc 2012-14 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaodong Li Postdoc 2013-15 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of California at Davis
Anru Zhang Ph.D. Student 2010-15 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hyunseung Kang Ph.D. Student 2010-15 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · University of Wisconsin at Madison
Wanjie Wang Postdoc 2014-16 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · National University of Singapore
Qinwen Wang Postdoc 2015-16 Assistant Professor · School of Data Science · Fudan University
Jing Ma Postdoc 2015-17 Biostatistician · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Zijian Guo Ph.D. Student 2012-17 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · Rutgers University
Tengyuan Liang Ph.D. Student 2012-17 Assistant Professor · Booth School of Business · University of Chicago
Dongdong Xiang Postdoc 2016-17 Professor · School of Statistics · East China Normal University
Preetam Nandy Postdoc 2017-18 Software Engineer · Data Mining/Machine Learning · LinkIn
Linjun Zhang Ph.D. Student 2014-19 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · Rutgers University
Abhishek Chakrabortty Postdoc 2016-19 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · Texas A&M University
Shaokun Li Ph.D. Student 2015-20 Pearl River Group
Rong Ma Ph.D. Student 2016-21 Assistant Professor · Department of Biostatistics · Harvard University
Sai Li Postdoc 2018-21 Assistant Professor · Institute of Statistics and Big Data · Renmin University of China
Yichen Wang Ph.D. Student 2016-22 Amazon Research
Hongji Wei Ph.D. Student 2017-22 Two Sigma
Ruijia Wu Ph.D. Student 2017-22 Assistant Professor · Department of Business Intelligence · Antai College of Economics and Management · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ran Chen Ph.D. Student 2017-22 Postdoc · Department of EECS · MIT
Hongming Pu Ph.D. Student 2018-22 Citadel
Changxiao Cai Postdoc 2021-23 Assistant Professor · Dept of Industrial & Operations Engineering · University of Michigan
Arnab Auddy Postdoc 2023-24 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · Ohio State University
Abhinav Chakraborty Ph.D. Student 2020-25 Postdoc · Department of Statistics · Columbia University
Lasse Vuursteen Postdoc 2023-25 Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics · Duke University
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