• Uncertainty-Aware Human Preference Study (Entity Ranking Estimation and Inference).
• Statistical Aspects of AI Safety and Data-Driven Decision-Making (Uncertainty Quantification, Calibration and Policy Optimization).
• Causal Inference (Instrumental Variable, Test Negative Design, Cluster Randomized Trial, Matching).
• Robust High-dimensional Statistical Estimation and Inference.

Mengxin(Maxine) Yu. High-dimensional Robust Statistical Inference. Princeton University, 2023.

* indicates equal contribution or alphabetical authorship.

Georgy Noarov*, Soham Mallick*, Tao Wang*, Sunay Joshi, Yan Sun, Yangxinyu Xie, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Edgar Dobriban. Foundations of Top-k Decoding For Language Models. Submitted, Under Review; Arxiv Preprints arXiv:2505.19371, 2025.

Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*, Kendrick Qijun Li, Nicholas P. Jewell, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Dylan S. Small, Xu Shi, Bingkai Wang*. Test-Negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution. Submitted, Under Review; Arxiv Preprints arXiv:2312.03967, 2024.

Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Nicholas P. Jewell. Test-Negative Designs with Multiple Testing Sources. Submitted, Under Review, 2024.

Jianqing Fan*, Jikai Hou*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu* (Alphabetical). Covariate Assisted Entity Ranking with Sparse Intrinsic Scores. Under Revision

Bingkai Wang, Fan Li, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu Conformal causal inference for cluster randomized trials: model-robust inference without asymptotic approximations. Submitted.

Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Zhuoran Yang, Jianqing Fan. Strategic Decision-Making in the Presence of Information Asymmetry: Provably Efficient RL with Algorithmic Instruments. Under Revision.

• This paper received the ASA Best Student Paper Award at the Business and Economic Statistics Session, 2023.
• This paper received the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023.

* indicates equal contribution or alphabetical authorship.

Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Weichen Wang*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Spectral Ranking Inferences based on General Multiway Comparisons. Operations Research (OR), 2025, to appear.

• This paper received the IMS New Researcher Travel Award, 2024.

Nicole O'Brien, Madiha Raees, Hunter Wynkoop, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Dylan S. Small, Karl Seydel, Montfort Bernard Gushu, Tusekile Phiri, Sylvester June, Terrie Taylor; Advancing Understanding of Cerebrovascular Hemodynamic Perturbations in Pediatric Cerebral Malaria using a Modified Critical Closing Pressure Evaluation a prospective, observational study. Neurocritical Care, 2025, to appear.

Edgar Dobriban*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu* . SymmPI: Predictive Inference for Data with Group Symmetries. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (JRSSB), 2025, to appear.

Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Weichen Wang*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Ranking Inferences Based on the Top Choice of Multiway Comparisons. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2025, 120(549), 237–250.

David Wichman*, Geoffrey Guenther*, Nthambose M. Simango, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Dylan S. Small, Olivia D. Findorff, Nathaniel O. Amoah, Rohini Dasan, Karl B. Seydel, Douglas G. Postels, Nicole F. O’Brien. Admission Point of Care Testing for the Clinical Care of Children with Cerebral Malaria. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2024, 9(9), 210.

Jianqing Fan*, Jikai Hou*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Uncertainty Quantification of MLE for Ranking with Covariates. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2024, 25(358), 1-83.

Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Are Latent Factor Regression and Sparse Regression Adequate? Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2024, 119(546), 1076-1088.

Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Robust High-dimensional Tuning Free Multiple Testing. Annals of Statistics (AOS), 2023, 51(5), 2093-2115 .

Jianqing Fan*, Yongyi Guo*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Policy Optimization Using Semiparametric Models for Dynamic Pricing. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2023, 119(545), 552–564 .

Jianqing Fan*, Zhuoran Yang*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*. Understanding Implicit Regularization in Over-Parameterized Single Index Model. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2023, 118(544), 2315-2328 .

Lu Deng*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*, Zhengjun Zhang*. Statistical Learning of the Worst Regional Smog Extremes with Dynamic Conditional Modeling. Atmosphere 2020, 11(6), 665 .

Xinmeng Huang*, Shuo Li*, Mengxin(Maxine) Yu, Matteo Sesia, Hamed Hassani, Insup Lee, Osbert Bastani, Edgar Dobriban. Uncertainty in Language Models: Assessment through Rank-Calibration. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024.