Statistical Learning & Data Mining Lab

SLDM@PSU News

2024

2023

  • Lingzhou Xue became an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) among 47 new ASA fellows: ASA_Fellows2023
  • Lingzhou Xue was promoted to Professor of Statistics starting from July 1st. See the announcement on Penn State News.
  • Kevin Lee (Ph.D. 2017) was promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics with tenure at Western Michigan University starting from July 1st.
  • Lingzhou Xue received the 2023 National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Distinguished Service Award. See the announcement.

  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2023 Inaugural Keystone State Statistics Symposium on October 7 and 8.
  • Qi Zhang was selected as a winner for the Section on Nonparametric Statistics 2023 Student Paper competition of the American Statistical Association.
  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2023 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers on July 21, July 28, and August 6.
  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2023 2nd CANSSI-NISS Health Data Science Workshop on August 2-4.

  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2023 Workshop on Statistical Network Science with Applications on May 19 and 20.
  • Lingzhou Xue, Xiufan Yu, Haoyi Yang, and Zhong Zheng participated in the Statistical Foundations of Data Science and their Applications conference.

  • Lingzhou Xue received the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R01 Grant (PI, 1R01GM152812, 2023–2027).
  • Qi Zhang started his new journey as Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe Inc.
  • Qi Zhang successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on May 15th.
  • Xiufan Yu (Ph.D. 2021) received the 2023 IMS New Researcher Travel Award.
  • Welcome Shubo Li to join our research group. He received her B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Welcome Xin Yu to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Nankai University.
  • Welcome Haochen Zhang to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University.

2022

  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (Co-PI, DMS-2210775, 2022–2025).
  • Justin Huang received the first prize in Mathematical Sciences at the Eberly College of Science 2022 Fall Research Symposium.
  • Welcome Satarupa Bhattacharjee to join our research group. She received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Davis.
  • Jim Rosenberger, and Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2022 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers on August 6 and 13. We are grateful for all the senior mentors and speakers: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State U), Naomi Altman (Penn State U), Angela Dean (Ohio State University), Cheryl Eavey (National Science Foundation), Susan Ellenberg (U of Pennsylvania), Xuming He (U of Michigan), Peter Imrey (Cleveland Clinic), Nicholas Jewell (U of California, Berkeley and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Jiming Jiang (U of California, Davis), Galin Jones (U of Minnesota), Karen Kafadar (U of Virginia), Nicole Lazar (Penn State U), Regina Nuzzo (Gallaudet University), Shuangge Steven Ma (Yale U), Edsel Peña (NSF and U of South Carolina), Don Richards (Penn State U), David Rocke (U of California, Davis), William Rosenberger (George Mason U), Ali Shojaie (U of Washington), and Judy Wang (George Washington U).
  • Nicholas Rios started his new journey as Assistant Professor of Statistics at George Mason University.
  • Jun Tao started his new journey as Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe Inc.
  • Arun Srinivasan started his new journey as Principal Statistician at GSK in the Research Statistics Department.
  • Jun Tao successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on June 3rd.

  • Nicholas Rios successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on May 16th.
  • Arun Srinivasan successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on February 18th.
  • Welcome Yizhe Ding to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Nankai University.
  • Welcome Dianjun Lin to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Nankai University and M.Sc. in Statistics from the Renmin University of China.

2021

  • Our collaborative research in the environmental science was highlighted in the Science report “Large-sample evidence on the impact of unconventional oil and gas development on surface waters“.
  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) COVID-19 Impact Supplement Award (single PI, DMS-1811552 A01 Supp, 2021–2023).
  • Xiufan Yu started her new journey as Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Bingyuan Liu started his new journey as Data Scientist at Google Inc.
  • Keith Crank, Jim Rosenberger, and Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2021 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers on August 6 and 13. We are grateful for all the senior mentors and speakers: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State U), Naomi Altman (Penn State U), David Banks (SAMSI and Duke University), Emma Benn (Icahn School of Medicine), Cheryl Eavey (National Science Foundation), Susan Ellenberg (U of Pennsylvania), Xuming He (U of Michigan), Tim Hesterberg (Google), David Hunter (Penn State U), Peter Imrey (Cleveland Clinic), Jiming Jiang (U of California, Davis), Tyler McCormick (U of Washington), Karen Messer (U of California, San Diego), Nick Jewell (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Nicole Lazar (Penn State U), Regina Nuzzo (ASA), Dennis Pearl (Penn State U), Edsel Peña (U of South Carolina), Don Richards (Penn State U), David Rocke (U of California, Davis), Ali Shojaie (U of Washington), Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State U), Hal Stern (U of California, Irvine), John Stufken (U of North Carolina at Greensboro), Judy Wang (George Washington U), and Leland Wilkinson (H2O.ai).
  • Jun Tao completed the summer internship on data science at Adobe for Summer 2021.
  • Haoyi Yang completed the summer research internship at Microsoft Research for Summer 2021.
  • Nicholas Rios completed the summer research internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for Summer 2021.
  • Joel Dubin, Jim Rosenberger, Lingzhou Xue, and Yeying Zhu co-organized the First CANSSI-NISS Health Data Science Workshop on May 7-8, featuring plenary speakers Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard U) and Mary Thompson (U of Waterloo) as well as late-breaking invited speakers David Buckeridge (McGill U), Rob Tibshirani (Stanford U), and Bin Yu (U of California, Berkeley).
  • Xiufan Yu was selected as a recipient of the 2021 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award.
  • Lingzhou Xue received the COPSS Leadership Academy Award. Here is a report on Penn State News.
  • Xiufan Yu was selected as a recipient of the 2021 Alumni Association Dissertation Award from the Graduate School at Penn State.
  • Nicholas Rios was selected as one of the 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Minority Ph.D. Scholars.
  • Nicholas Rios was selected as a winner for the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) + Quality & Productivity (Q&P) 2021 Student Paper competition of the American Statistical Association.
  • Xiufan Yu successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on May 19th.
  • Bingyuan Liu successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on February 23rd.
  • Welcome Zhong Zheng to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University.
  • Welcome Dian Zheng to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Tsinghua University.

2020

  • Lingzhou Xue received the Adobe’s Data Science Research Award.
  • Keith Crank, Jim Rosenberger, and Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2020 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers on August 7 and 14. We are grateful for the senior mentors and speakers: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State U), Naomi Altman (Penn State U), Roger Berger (Arizona State U), Emma Benn (Icahn School of Medicine), Cheryl Eavey (National Science Foundation), Susan Ellenberg (U of Pennsylvania), Xuming He (U of Michigan), Tim Hesterberg (Google), Gabriel Huerta (Sandia National Laboratories), Peter Imrey (Cleveland Clinic), Tyler McCormick (U of Washington), Karen Messer (U of California, San Diego), Nicholas Jewell (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Nicole Lazar (Penn State U), Edsel Peña (U of South Carolina), David Rocke (U of California, Davis), Ali Shojaie (U of Washington), Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State U), Hal Stern (U of California, Irvine), John Stufken (U of North Carolina at Greensboro), Judy Wang (George Washington U), and Leland Wilkinson (H2O.ai).
  • Lingzhou Xue served on the organizing committee for NISS/ASA Webinar on COVID-19 and the Role of Modeling featuring moderator Wendy Martinez (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and invited speakers Nick Jewell (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) & Britta Jewell (Imperial College London), Dean Follmann (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and Marc Lipsitch (Harvard U), NISS/COPSS Webinar on Learning from COVID-19 Data featuring moderator Bhramar Mukherjee (U of Michigan) and invited speaker Xihong Lin (Harvard U), and NISS/ASA Tutorial on Susceptible-Infected-Recovered Modeling featuring Ottar Bjornstad (Penn State U).
  • Nicholas Rios successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Arun Srinivasan successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Amal Agarwal started his new journey as Data Scientist at eBay Inc.
  • Amal Agarwal successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on June 8th, and Anna Zhang’s honors Thesis was approved on May 4th.
  • Bingyuan Liu completed the summer internship on data science at Google for Summer 2020.
  • Jun Tao completed the summer internship on data science at Adobe for Summer 2020.
  • Xiufan Yu completed the summer internship on artificial intelligence at LinkedIn for Summer 2020.
  • Anna Zhang was selected to represent statistics in the Eberly College of Science as the program’s student marshal as part of Penn State’s 2020 spring commencement ceremonies on May 8.
  • Anna Zhang received the 2020 Patil-Taillie Scholarship for her demonstrated application of statistics in the study of the environment.
  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Award (single PI, 2007823, 2020–2023).
  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (co-PI, DMS-2022942, 2020–2023).
  • Lingzhou Xue received the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) R21 Grant (co-I, AI144765, 2020–2022).
  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (lead PI, DMS-1953189, 2020–2023).
  • Lingzhou Xue worked with Hyungsuk Tak, , Dennis Pearl, and Michael Fleck to receive the honorable mention in the Elevating Math video competition (link) for their produced vidoe “Estimating the Hubble Constant using Time Delay Cosmography” (link), hosted by the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

2019

  • Lingzhou Xue received the prestigious 2019 International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Best Paper Award, which is one of sixteen best paper awards in mathematics authored by Chinese descendants in 2014–2019. The list of sixteen paper awards can be found from the wepage for the award ceremony. Also, the media coverage can be found here.
  • Arun Srinivasan co-organized the 2019 Annual Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, poster sessions, and research presentations.
  • Lingzhou Xue received 2019 Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award.
  • Lingzhou Xue was promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics with tenure starting from July 1st. See the announcement on Penn State News.
  • Keith Crank, Jim Rosenberger, and Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2019 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers (at JSM). We are grateful for the senior mentors and speakers: Naomi Altman (Penn State U), Susan Ellenberg (U of Pennsylvania), Daniel Gillen (U of California, Irvine), Xuming He (U of Michigan), Peter Imrey (Cleveland Clinic), Nicholas Jewell (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Nicole Lazar (U of Georgia), Edsel Peña (U of South Carolina), David Rocke (U of California, Davis), Hal Stern (U of California, Irvine), Leland Wilkinson (H2O.ai).
  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized the Inaugural Ingram Olkin Statistics Serving Society Forum on “Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues”.
  • We designed the logo for Inaugural Ingram Olkin Statistics Serving Society Forum Series.
  • Our interdisciplinary research on Biomechanical Platelet Aggregation was published in Nature Materials (Impact factor: 39.235) published by Nature Publishing Group, which is based on the continued joint efforts with scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Sydney, and the Scripps Research Institute.
  • Alex Chen received the 2019 Patil-Taillie Scholarship for his demonstrated application of statistics in the study of the environment.
  • Anna Zhang received the 2019 Erickson Discovery Grant. A total of 78 grants are being awarded this year through the Office of Undergraduate Education. There were 208 applications and the selection process was very competitive.
  • Bingyuan Liu received the First Place Award from Student Paper Competition of the American Statistical Association’s Statistics in Imaging Section. The review committee selected one winner and three runners-up from a total of 23 submissions.
  • Bingyuan Liu completed the research internship to work on deep learning methods and theory at NEC Research Labs for Summer 2019.
  • Xiufan Yu received the Science for Social Good Fellowship from IBM Research to develop artificial intelligence and deep science toward new societal challenges for Summer 2019.
  • Xiufan Yu successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Welcome Qi Zhang to join our research group. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University.

2018

  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (single PI, DMS-1811552, 2018–2021).
  • Arun Srinivasan received the fellwoship from Computation, Bioinformatics, and Statistics (CBIOS) Training Program.
  • Keith Crank, Jim Rosenberger, Nell Sedransk, and Lingzhou Xue co-organized the 2018 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers (at JSM). We are grateful for the seinor mentors and speakers: Susan Ellenberg (U of Pennsylvania), Xuming He (U of Michigan), Gabriel Huerta (Sandia National Laboratories), Peter Imrey (Cleveland Clinic), Nicole Lazar (U of Georgia), Edsel Peña (U of South Carolina), Limin Peng (Emory U), David Rocke (U of California, Davis), Nicoleta Serban (Georgia Tech), Ali Shojaie (U of Washington), Hal Stern (U of California, Irvine), Leland Wilkinson (H2O.ai), Heping Zhang (Yale U).
  • Our developed software GeoNet was featured in the Computer module at 2018 Shale Network Workshop and featured in the CUAHSI Newsletter by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) in June 2018.
  • Amal Agarwal and Lingzhou Xue co-taught the short course on “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” with the well-known computer scientist C. Lee Giles at the 2018 Summer School in Astroinformatics. Here is the webpage for our short course.
  • Lingzhou Xue gave an introductory overview lecture on “Machine Learning” at The U.S. Energy Information Administration.
  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (co-PI, DMS-1833522, 2018–2019).
  • Jon McKellar was honored as the student marshal for the Eberly College of Science during Penn State’s 2018 summer commencement ceremonies on Aug. 11.
  • Amal Agarwal received the J. Keith Ord Scholarship for his excellent research on statistics in environmental science.
  • Amal Agarwal received the Best Student Paper Award from Risk Analysis Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
  • Amal Agarwal was one of the finalists for the Best Student Paper Award and received the Student Travel Award from the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA).
  • Xiufan Yu received the Best Student Paper Award from Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
  • Bingyuan Liu successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Welcome Haoyi Yang to join our research group. He received his B.S. in Statistics from Peking University.

2017

    • Kevin Lee started his new journey as Assistant Professor of Statistics at Western Michigan University.

  • Kevin Lee successfully passed the Ph.D. Doctoral Defense on April 18th.
  • Amal Agarwal successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Welcome Jun Tao to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University.
  • Welcome Arun Srinivasan to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin and M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Chicago.

2016

  • Our interdisciplinary research on single molecular studies was published in eLife and featured as the Top Story in NSF Science360 News.
  • Lingzhou Xue became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
  • Kevin Lee received the Best Student Paper Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA).
  • Kevin Lee received the Best Student Paper Award from both Biometrics Section and Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
  • Welcome Bingyuan Liu to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from Zhejiang University.
  • Welcome Xiufan Yu to join our research group. She received her B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China.

2015

  • Lingzhou Xue received the NSF Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Award (single PI, DMS-1505256, 2015–2018).
  • Lingzhou Xue co-organized 2015 Rao Prize Conference featuring David R. Cox, Nancy Reid, Aurore Delaigle and Jeffrey Racine.
  • Kevin Lee received the Penn State’s prestigious Academic Computing Fellowship.
  • Kevin Lee successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.
  • Welcome Amal Agarwal to join our research group. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

2014

  • Lingzhou Xue coauthored the American Statistical Association (ASA) whitepaper entitled “Discovery with Data: Leveraging Statistics with Computer Science to Transform Science and Society” with Cynthia Rudin, David Dunson, Rafael Irizarry, Hongkai Ji, Eric Laber, Jeffrey Leek, Tyler McCormick, Sherri Rose, Chad Schafer, Mark van der Laan, and Larry Wasserman.
  • Kevin Lee received the 2014 Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) Scholarship.
  • Welcome Kevin Lee to join our research group. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics from Korea University.
  • Lingzhou Xue joined Penn State Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor from January 1st.
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