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
Awards and Honors
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)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor, Statistics
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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
Chang, J., Chen, X., & Wu, M. (2024). Central limit theorems for high dimensional dependent data. Bernoulli, 30(1), 712-742. https://doi.org/10.3150/23-BEJ1614
Zhuang, Y., Chen, X., Yang, Y., & Zhang, R. Y. (2024). STATISTICALLY OPTIMAL K-MEANS CLUSTERING VIA NONNEGATIVE LOW-RANK SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING. Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024, Hybrid, Vienna, Austria.
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
Zhuang, Y., Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2023). Likelihood Adjusted Semidefinite Programs for Clustering Heterogeneous Data. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 202, 43326-43346.
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