I did two years post graduate scientist (post-doc) at Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe),National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO before  I moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013, and now I am a Professor with Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar.

Spatio-temporal modeling, Functional data, Spatial Extremes, Copula
Bayesian hierarchical modeling
Large-scale data in climatology, atmospheric and environmental science
Public health studies including childhood cancer and human morbidity

Methods

Univariate and multivariate spatio-temporal modeling

Bayesian hierarchical modeling

Copula methods

Applications

Paleoclimate reconstruction

Large data analysis in climatology, atmospheric and environmental science

Public health including childhood cancer and human morbidity

Time series data analysis

PhD, Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2006
M.S. in Statistics, Texas A&M University, May. 2004.
M.S. in Ship and Ocean Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
B.S. in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Minor in Industrial Foreign Trade, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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