B.S. (1995) Central China Normal University, Mathematical Education
M.S. (1998) Beijing University, Mathematics
Ph.D. (2004) Cornell University, Mathematical Statistics
Co-Advisors: Professor
J.T.Gene Hwang, Professor Michael Nussbaum
Honors and Awards
Hutchinson Fellowship, Department of
Mathematics, Cornell University,
Spring 2001.
Liu Memorial Award, Cornell
University, May 2001. Established in the late 1960s. First mathematics
graduate student to receive this honor.
Robert L. Battig
Award, Department of Mathematics, Cornell
University, December
2003.
Fall 2000, TA of Math 611,
Real Analysis
Spring 2001, Recitation Instructor of Math
321, Manifolds and Differential Forms
Fall 2002, TA of Math 471,
Basic Probability Theory
Spring 2003, Recitation Instructor of Math 171,
Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World
Fall 2003, Instructor of Math
111, Calculus I
Spring 2004, TA of Math
672, Probability Theory (Stochastic Processes)
Technical Reports
1. Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and its application to Wavelet
Analysis (with J.T.Gene Hwang), 2003 pdf.
(Ann. Stat., to appear)
2. Global Geometry of SVM Classifiers (with D. Zhou, B. Xiao, and
R. Dai), 2002 pdf
Current Projects
1. Asymptotic equivalence of spectral density estimation and Gaussian
white noise (with G. Golubev, M. Nussbaum), 2003. Working paper.
2. Poissonization of Density Estimation Experiment (with M. Low ),
2003. Working paper.
3. Minimax Variable Selection (with J.T.Gene
Hwang). Working paper.
4. SURE Approach to Block James-Stein Thresholding (with T.
Cai). Working paper.
5. Infinitely Divisible Aproximations to I.I.D. Density Estimation
Experiments (with M. Nussbaum)
6.A Root-unroot Transform and Wavelet Block Thresholding Approach to
Adaptive Density Estimation (with L.D. Brown, T. Cai, et al.).
Working paper.
1. Shrinkage Estimation Toward the Data Chosen Reduced Model
with Application to Wavelet Regression, International Congress of
Mathematicians, August 2002 pdf 2. Infinitely Divisible Approximations to I.I.D. Density Estimation
Experiments, Seventh Purdue International Symposium on Statistics, June
2003 pdf 3. Infinitely Divisible Approximations to I.I.D. Density Estimation
Experiments, Joint Statistical Meeting, San Franciso, August 2003
4. Function Estimation via Asymptotic Equivalence, Cornell Statistics
Seminar, Nov. 2003
5. Function Estimation via Asymptotic Equivalence, Yale, Wayne State,
Columbia, Penn State, UC Davis, Ohio State, Iowa State, Feb. 2004
