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Email: lgao13@utk.edu
2015. 08 - 2019. 07, Ph.D., Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, supervised by Qi-Man Shao .
2011. 09 - 2015. 07, B.S., Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
2022.08 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee Knoxville.
2019. 08 - 2022.07, Postdoctoral scholar, Data Sciences and Operations Department, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Supervisors: Yingying Fan and Jinchi Lv .
High-dimensional statistics and inference
Nonparametric statistics
Causal inference
Asymptotic theory
IMS New Researcher Travel Award, 2021.
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, 2015 - 2019.
Oversea Research Award, CUHK, 2017 - 2018.
National Scholarship (China), 2012 - 2014.
Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University, 2015.
Referee for The Annals of Statistics, JRSSB, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Bernoulli, Statistica Sinica, Science China Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Statistics and Computing, Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
Updated in July 2026.