Profile：

I am currently a full professor and department head of Department of Statistics and Data Sciencen, School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute of Economics at Xiamen University.
I received my PhD in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in 2012, and was promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2014 and 2017, respectively.
My research interests include variable selection and statistical inference of high-dimensional data, statistical learning algorithms, econometrics as well as applications of statistics and data science. I have published more than 30 journal papers in The Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Statistica Sinica, Chinese Science Mathematics, etc.
I serve as Associate Editors for several statistical and mathematical journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, etc.