I am an Assistant Professor at the newly established Department of Statistics and Data Science at WUSTL, since July 2025. Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, advised by Professor Dylan S. Small. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (Statistics and Machine Learning Track) at Princeton University in May 2023, advised by Professor Jianqing Fan. Prior to Princeton, I obtained my B.S. with summa cum laude (Guo Muoruo Scholarship, <1%) from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2018.
Here is a copy of my CV (last updated: August 2025).
I am seeking students or interns with a strong background in mathematics or programming. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me at myu@wustl.edu.
My research interests lie at the intersection of estimation, inference, and decision-making, with applications spanning public health, machine learning, and social science. In particular, I focus on developing novel statistical methods and exploring their applications in areas such as statistical aspects of AI and machine learning, human preference learning, causal inference, and data-driven decision-making.
Misc: I am also an amateur photographer, here is a
Gallery that contains some photos that I took in the past few years.