I am now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, under the supervision of Prof. Zheng (Tracy) Ke. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Statistics at UC Davis, where I was fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Krishna Balasubramanian and Prof. Wolfgang Polonik. Before coming to UC Davis, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Math at Fudan University, where I was advised by Prof. Lei Shi.

My research interests lie in the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, with emphasis on statistical learning and foundation models.

Recent News

• Excited to announce I will be co-organzing a workshop “New Frontiers in Associative Memory” at ICLR 2026.
• Our recent work Dense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov energy has been accepted to NeurIPS with Spotlight! In this work, we proposed a novel energy function for Dense Associative Memory (DenseAM) networks, the log-sum-ReLU (LSR), inspired by optimal kernel density estimation, that solves the memorization-generation trade-off in DAMs while showing a unique ability to generate abundant additional local minima (we call them `emergent memory’).
• I am invited to give a talk on `From Smooth to Nonsmooth: Minimax Optimal Regression with Laplacian Eigenmaps’ at SIAM UQ26 minisymposium “Probabilistic Manifold Learning and Deep Embeddings for Uncertainty Quantification”, Mar 2026.
• I am invited to give a talk on `Smooth Dynamic Network Analysis’ at the JSM2025, Aug 2025.
• I will give a talk titled `On the nonasymptotic statistical inferences via stabilization theory of Gaussian approximation bounds’ at the 22nd INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference at Georgia Institute of Technology from June 30th to July 3rd, 2025.
• Our recent work Gaussian and Bootstrap Approximation for Matching-based Average Treatment Effect Estimators is now avaible on Arxiv! Taking ATE as an example, we provide a general framework for non-asymptotic statistical inference via a local geometric concept called `stabilization’.
• I joined the Department of Statistics, Harvard University, on September 1, 2024, as a Postdoctoral Fellow.