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Age: 30
Title: Assistant Professor
Employer: The
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alma Mater: Nankai
University (BS, 1999);
The Ohio State University
(MS, 2001; PhD, 2004)

What do you hate most about
your profession?
It is difficult for me to think of anything that I really
hate about my profession.
What was the best career advice
Research Interests:
you were given?
My research interests are primarily in the areas
To form strong collaborations with peers. Although I
of statistical learning and data mining, as well as
enjoy doing independent research, I have greatly ben-
their applications in bioinformatics. In particular,
efited from collaborations with many other people,
I have been developing new statistical techniques
both in statistics and in bioinformatics. Besides the
for analyzing high-dimensional data and data with
values of making contacts in the profession, stimulat-
complex structure.
ing discussions with my collaborators inspire me to
think deeply about problems and develop relevant
Name a statistician you admire and
new techniques, as well as identify future problems
tell us why.
to work on.
R. A. Fisher, who proposed and developed many
fundamental statistical techniques and concepts,
What is one web site/blog you
including maximum likelihood, analysis of variance,
can’t go a day without visiting?
Fisher’s information, and Fisher linear discriminate
On the professional side, I visit the Google web site
analysis. It is impossible to be a statistician without
every day to find information. On the personal side,
being influenced by Fisher’s statistical philosophy. In
I frequently visit www.mitbbs.com. It is a forum for
addition to his most celebrated career in statistics,
Chinese students and scholars to exchange informa-
Fisher was also an accomplished geneticist. With
tion, news, and views about study, jobs, and everyday
remarkable contributions in both theoretical and
life in the United States.
applied statistics, Fisher is certainly a wonderful role
model for young statisticians.
What is something your friends would be
surprised to learn about you?
What do you love most about
I am now comfortable with public speaking, although
your profession?
I used to be shy and sometimes tremble while speak-
As a faculty member, I enjoy the freedom of being
ing in public. I love swimming and reading Chinese
able to work on research problems that interest me.
martial arts novels.
I also enjoy the satisfaction of solving a challenging
problem after great effort.
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