Appointments and Education

The D. E. Shaw Group (12/2025 – present)

• Quantitative Analyst, Equities Group

University of Wisconsin-Madison (08/2024 – 12/2025)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (07/2023 – 08/2024)

• Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS, LIDS

  • Mentors: Philippe Rigollet and Martin Wainwright

Princeton University (08/2018 – 06/2023)

• Ph.D., Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering

  • Advisors: Yuxin Chen and Jianqing Fan

  • Dissertation: Statistical Learning and Optimal Decision Making under Uncertainty

• M.A. awarded in Sept. 2020

Peking University (09/2014 – 07/2018)

• B.S., School of Mathematical Sciences

  • Advisor: Jinzhu Jia

Short-term visiting positions

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (09/2022 – 12/2022)

  • Visiting student in Department of Mathematics, hosted by Philippe Rigollet

• University of California, Berkeley (08/2021 – 11/2021)

  • Visiting student in Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (Program: Computational Complexity of Statistical Inference)