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Rong Ma is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Statistics Department at Stanford University, advised by Professor David Donoho. Prior to that, he got his PhD in Biostatistics in 2021 from the University of Pennsylvania, jointly advised by Professors T. Tony Cai and Hongzhe Li. He received a BS in…
Nancy Ruonan Zhang is a Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor of Statistics in The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on the development of statistical and computational approaches for the analysis of genetic, genomic, and transcriptomic data. In the field of Genomics, she has developed…
Ilmun Kim is a research associate at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, mentored by Richard Samworth and Rajen Shah. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 under the joint supervision of Larry Wasserman and Sivaraman Balakrishnan. His research interests are broadly in the areas…
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Ashwin Pananjady is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. His research interests are broadly in statistics, optimization and information theory. Specific topics of …
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Didong Li is a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University, supervised by David B. Dunson and Sayan Mukherjee. His research focuses on bridging between statistics and differential geometry to develop fundamentally new algorithms, statistical methods and theory. In particular, …