CV

Employment

Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Sep 2025 – Present.
Young Investigator, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Sep 2022 – Sep 2025.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Sep 2019 – Aug 2022.
Full-Time Research Assistant, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Dec 2013 – Jul 2014.

Ph.D. in Operations Research, Cornell University, Aug 2014 – Aug 2019.
- Concentration: Applied Probability and Statistics
- Minors: Finance, Mathematical Statistics
- Advisor: Prof. Sidney Resnick
M.Sc. in Operations Research, Cornell University, Aug 2014 – Jan 2017.
Bachelor of Actuarial Studies with Honors in Statistics, Australian National University, Feb 2010 – Dec 2013.

Random networks, extreme value theory, network inference, applied probability and stochastic processes, mathematical statistics.

上海市科技进步二等奖 (Second Prize, Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award), Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, 2025.
复旦大学卓学优秀人才 / Fudan University Outstanding Talent Program (Zhuo Xue), Fudan University, 2023.
上海市领军人才（海外） / Shanghai Leading Talent (Overseas) Program (Ling Jun), Shanghai Municipality, 2022.
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI), since 06/2022.
Runner-Up, Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications and Network Analytics, INFORMS Telecommunication & Analytics, 2020.
University Medal in Statistics, Australian National University, 2013.
Goldman Sachs J B Were Prize, Australian National University, 2013.
College of Business and Economics Honors Scholarship, Australian National University, 2012.

PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, Grant No. 12671644, “Local Topological Inference and Generation Mechanism Identification for High-dimensional Sparse Random Graphs”, 2027–2030.
PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund (Type C), Grant No. 12301660, “Heterogeneous Scale-Free Networks and Related Heavy-Tail Phenomena: Modeling and Inference”, 2024–2026.
Core Team Member, National Key R&D Program of China, Grant No. 2025YFA1016503, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2025–2029.
PI, Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences Grant SIMIS-ID-2024-WE, “Multi-level data governance and mechanism analysis of complex education data”, 2024–2026.
PI, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality Grant 23JC1400700, “Multilayer Network Modeling, Analysis and Inference”, 2023–2026.
PI, NSF DMS-2210685, “Collaborative Research: Models and Inferences for Heterogeneous Interaction Patterns of Social Networks”, 2022–2025 (Subsequently Participant after joining Fudan University).
Participant, NSFC-7217010183 (PI: Y. Hou, School of Data Science, Fudan University), 2022–2025.
Co-PI, T3: Texas A&M Triads for Transformation, Round 4, 2021–2022.

Scientific Committee Member, Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) 2025.
Board Member, One World Extremes Seminar, 07/2025 – 06/2027.
President, Southeastern Texas Chapter of ASA (SETCASA), 02/2022 – 01/2023. (Vice President: 02/2021 – 01/2022; Secretary: 02/2020 – 01/2021).
Junior Liaison, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), 01/2021 – 08/2022.
Colloquium Chair, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, 01/2021 – 12/2021.
Referee for: Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (JRSS-B), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Statistical Science, Extremes, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Applied Probability, Stat, Electronic Communications in Probability, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Mathematical Reviews.

Organizer, One World Extremes Seminar, 2025–2027 (Global Online Events).
Session Organizer, Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) 2025, Jun 2025, Chapel Hill, USA.
Chair of Organizing Committee, International Conference on Extremes, Statistics, and Quantitative Risk Management, July 29–31, 2024, SCMS, Fudan University.
Chair of Organizing Committee, Workshop on Statistics and Machine Learning, August 12–14, 2023, SCMS, Fudan University.
Chair of Organizing Committee, SETCASA Poster Competition, May 2022, Texas A&M University.
Session Organizer, ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Dec 2020, Houston, USA.

Ph.D. Students (Primary Advisor):
- Daniel Cirkovic (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Chair)
- Qian Hui (current Ph.D. student, Fudan University, Chair)
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member:
- Dapeng Shi (Fudan University)
- Zhuoye Han (Fudan University)
- Huiling Liao (Texas A&M University)
Master’s Students in Applied Statistics, Fudan University:
- Class of 2024: Yating Kong, Liuxin Song, Xuanqi Tao, Li Zhang, Jiawen Zhou
- Class of 2025: Wenchao Chen, Chao Ma, Qianqing Tang, Zhuoyang Wu, Jingwen Ye
- Class of 2026: Hongwei Fan, Zihao Fang, Yinru Long, Xinyu Shen, Jiahao Yang
- Class of 2027: Dong Fang, Yiyang Geng, Yumo Hu, Ziyi Zhang, Mingjie Zheng
M.S. Students, Texas A&M University:
- Alexander Coulter (co-chaired with D.B.H. Cline)
- Sijing Yu, Vrushabh Bhangod, Andrew Lastinger (Committee member)
Undergraduate Students in Mathematics, Fudan University:
- Class of 2027: Tianyu Chen, Shuang Li, Yuehuan Lin, Yaoyao Ma, Haoran Zhang, Junji Zhang