Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2001.
  Advisor: Professor Bradley Efron.
• M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, March 2000.
• B.S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, July 1997.

  Teaching Experience

• July 2008 -- now, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.
• September 2007 -- December 2007, Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago.
• July 2005 -- June 2008, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University.
• July 2001 -- June 2005, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.
• September 1997 -- June 2001, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.

  Honors and Awards

•  2008. Speaker chosen for the "Best of the Annals of Applied Statistics" session at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
•  2007. Fellow, American Statistical Association.
•  2007. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Richard Tweedie Award.
•  2005 -- 2010. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
•  1997 -- 2000. Stanford Graduate Fellowship (offered to 100 graduate students each year at Stanford University).
•  1995. Japanese Sumitomo Bank Scholarship (awarded to top 1% undergraduate students at Peking University).
•  1992. Selected into the China National Training Team (30 members) for International Physics Olympics.
•  1992. Selected into the China National Training Team (15 members) for International Olympiad in Informatics.

  Grants

• NSF grant, Division of Mathematical Sciences, Statistics and Probabiliy Program. July 2005 -- June 2010.
• NSF grant, Division of Mathematical Sciences, Statistics and Probabiliy Program. July 2002 -- June 2006.
• Harvard University Clarke/Cooke Fund. April 2002 -- June 2004.

  Editorial Boards

• Editor, Chance Magazine, 2008 -- now.
• Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2007 -- now.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2006 -- now.
• Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2005 -- now.

  Professional Activities

• 2007. Symposium co-chair, "Symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvard Statistics Department", Harvard University.
• 2007. IMS representative, "International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics -- High Dimensional Data Analysis", Kunming, China.
• 2007. Organizing committee member, "The Third Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods", Cambridge, MA.
• Director of graduate studies, Harvard University, Department of Statistics, 2006 -- now.
• Organizing committee member, "International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics -- Biostatistics and Bioinformatics", Changchun, China, 2006.
• Invited session organizer, "The 19th New England Statistics Symposium", University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2005.
• Symposium committee chair, "Some challenging applications of statistical modeling and analysis: Symposium honoring Professor Arthur Dempster's retirement", Harvard University, 2005.
• Program Chair, "The 18th New England Statistics Symposium", 2004.
• Associate Program Chair and Chair of General Methodology for the Joint Statistics Meeting 2004, Toronto.
• Invited Session Organizer, ENAR 2004 Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh.
• co-Head Tutor for undergraduate studies, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 2002 -- 2005.

  Publications