About

The main focus of SLDM@PSU is on Computational and Data Sciences. Our research interests include the following:

• High Dimensional Statistics
• Nonparametric Statistics
• Statistical and Machine Learning
• Large Scale Optimization
• Statistical Modeling in Biomedical Science, Business Analytics, Information Science, and Public Health

Here is our latest SLDM News. We have a series of SLDM Talks on emerging topics and trends on statistical learning and data mining and a series of NSSL Talks on new advances in nonparametric statistics and statistical learning.

Software and Data Library:

• amanpg: Alternating Manifold Proximal Gradient Method for Sparse PCA (R package)
• ddpca: Diagonally Dominant Principal Component Analysis (R package)
• ergmclust: Model-Based Clustering of Networks through ERGMs (R package)
• sparsepca: Sparse Principal Component Analysis in Python (Python package)
• sufficientForecasting: Sufficient Forecasting using Factor Models (R package)
• Earnings Fidelity Measures (and Economic Persistence) (link)

Current Members:

• Lingzhou Xue (Professor of Statistics)
• Simon Fontaine (Postdoctoral Scholar | Ph.D. in Statistics, 2024, University of Michigan)
• Haoyi Yang (Postdoctoral Scholar | Ph.D. in Statistics, 2024, Penn State University)
• Dian Zheng (Ph.D. candidate in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2020)
• Zhong Zheng (Ph.D. candidate in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2020)
• Yizhe Ding (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2022)
• Dianjun Lin (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2022)
• Shubo Li (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2023)
• Xin Yu (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2023)
• Haochen Zhang (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2023)

Former Ph.D. Students & Postdoctoral Scholars:

• Amal Agarwal (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020 | Current: Data Scientist, eBay Inc.)
• Satarupa Bhattacharjee (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2022-2024 | Current: Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Florida)
• Kevin Lee (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2017 | Current: Associate Professor of Statistics at Western Michigan University)
• Bingyuan Liu (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 | Current: Senior Research Data Scientist, Google Inc.)
• Nicholas Rios (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | Current: Assistant Professor of Statistics at George Mason University)
• Arun Srinivasan (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | Current: Principal Statistician, GSK plc.)
• Jun Tao (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe Inc.)
• Haoyi Yang (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2024 | Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University)
• Xiufan Yu (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 | Current: Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Notre Dame)
• Qi Zhang (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2023 | First Job: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe Inc.)

Former B.Sc. Students:

• Alex Chen (B.Sc. in Statistics, 2020 | Current: Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles)
• Brent Hoffert (B.Sc. in Statistics, 2018 | Current: Software Engineer at Microsoft)
• Justin Huang (Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics, 2023 | Current: Data Scientist at Rockwell Automation)
• Benjamin Jochem (Honors B.Sc. student in Finance and Statistics, 2022 | Current: Senior Research Analyst at The Tie)
• Jon McKellar (Honors B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics, 2018 | Current: Senior Director at Sidecar Health)
• Yuefei Shen (Honors B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2017 | Current: Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of Minnesota)
• Christopher Vo (Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2021 | Current: Product Manager at Microsoft)
• Jingyu Wang (Honors B.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science, 2022 | Current: M.Sc. Student in Statistics and Data Science at Yale University)
• Anna Yinqi Zhang (Honors B.Sc. in Statistics, 2020 | Current: Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology at Penn State University)
• Shunqi Zhang (Honors B.Sc. in Statistics, 2020 | Current: Ph.D. Student in Economics at Cornell University)