Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
I did two years post graduate scientist (post-doc) at Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe), at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO before I moved to Purdue in 2008. I moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013, and now I am a Professor with Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar and ORMIR Faculty Scholar. I was also a Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar during 2018 to 2021.
Research Interests
- Methods
- Univariate and multivariate spatio-temporal data modeling
- Bayesian hierarchical modeling
- Functional data methods
- Copula
- Spatial extremes
- Applications
- Paleoclimate reconstruction
- Large data analysis in climatology, atmospheric and environmental science
- Public health such as HIV, vector-born disease, and heat wave related human morbidity
- Time series data analysis
Research Description
My research mainly focuses on spatial and spatio-temporal statistics and environmental statistics concerning problems in climatology, atmospheric sciences, public health, forestry and agriculture.
Education
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.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Office of Risk Management & Insurance Research (ORMIR) Faculty Fellow, Finance
