Group

I am currently not taking any new students, here is a list of my group’s alumni.

Liwei Wu, Ph.D.

Machine Learning Researcher, Linkedin

Co-advised with Cho-Jui Hsieh — graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Winter 2020 — Thesis on Advances in Collaborative Filtering and Ranking

Xiaoyue Li, Ph.D.

Software Engineer, Google

Graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Spring 2020 — Thesis on Intensity Estimation of Point Processes in Linear Time

Dmitry Shemetov, Ph.D.

Statistical Developer at CMU Delphi

Graduated with Applied Maths Ph.D. in Spring 2020 — Thesis on Statistical Detection on Networks

Shitong Wei, Ph.D.

Adobe

Graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Spring 2021 — Thesis on Graph Trend Filtering, Covid-19 Davis Modeling Team

Qin Ding, Ph.D.

Research Scientist at Facebook AI

Co-advised with Cho-Jui Hsieh — Graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Spring 2021 — Researching Stochastic Contextual Bandits

Lifeng Wei, Ph.D.

Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft

Co-advised with Cho-Jui Hsieh — Graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Spring 2021 — Thesis on Statistical Machine Learning, Covid-19 Davis Modeling Team

Stephen Sheng, Ph.D.

Applied Scientist at Amazon

Graduated with Applied Maths Ph.D. in Fall 2021 — Thesis on Unsupervised Learning in Images, Covid-19 Davis Modeling Team

Xiaoliu Wu, Ph.D.

Data Scientist at Google

Graduated with Statistics Ph.D. in Spring 2022 — Thesis on Causal Inference in Deep Learning, Covid-19 Davis Modeling Team

Ran Sun, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Michigan Traffic Lab at the University of Michigan

Co-advised with Yueyue Fan — Graduated with Transportation Science Ph.D. in Spring 2023 — Thesis on Graph Signal Processing for Transportation Science

Xiawei Wang, Ph.D.

Data Scientist at Microsoft

Co-advised with Thomas Lee — Graduating with Biostatistics Ph.D. in Winter 2024 — Thesis on Survival Analysis with Deep Learning