Contact Information
605 E. Springfield Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
M/C 374
Biography
2019-Present: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2019-2020: Visiting Faculty, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2013-2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests
High-dimensional and nonparametric statistics
Time series analysis
Machine learning and signal processing
Education
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2013
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Honors & Awards
Simons Fellowship in Mathematics (2020-2021)
Associate, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (2020-2021)
ICSA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2019)
NSF CAREER Award (2018)
Arnold O. Beckman Award, University of Illinois (2018)
Recent Publications
Song, Y., Chen, X., & Kato, K. (2023). Stratified incomplete local simplex tests for curvature of nonparametric multiple regression. Bernoulli, 29(1), 323-349. https://doi.org/10.3150/22-BEJ1459
Park, Y., Chen, X., & Simpson, D. G. (2022). ROBUST INFERENCE FOR PARTIALLY OBSERVED FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE DATA. Statistica Sinica, 32(4), 2265-2293. https://doi.org/10.5705/ss.202020.0358
Yu, M., & Chen, X. (2022). A robust bootstrap change point test for high-dimensional location parameter. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 16(1), 1096-1152. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-EJS1915
Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2021). Cutoff for Exact Recovery of Gaussian Mixture Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 67(6), 4223-4238. Article 9366690. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2021.3063155
Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2021). Diffusion K-means clustering on manifolds: Provable exact recovery via semidefinite relaxations. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 52, 303-347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acha.2020.03.002
