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Selected Invited Talks (since late 2020)

  • April 2024: Keynote speaker, UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Causality Workshop, University of California San Diego, California.
  • April 2024: Theory and Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
  • April 2024: National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • March 2024: Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometrics Society (IBS) Spring Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • November 2023: Online Causal Inference Seminar.
  • November 2023: Algebraic Economics Workshop, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Chicago, Illinois.
  • October 2023: Algebraic Statistics for Ecological and Biological Systems Workshop, IMSI, Chicago, Illinois.
  • October 2023: Big Data and Machine Learning in Econometrics, Finance, and Statistics, Chicago, Illinois.
  • October, 2023: Econometrics and Statistics Colloquium, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois.
  • August 2023: Joint Statistical Meetings 2023, Toronto, Canada.
  • April 2023: Berkeley-Columbia Meeting in Engineering and Statistics, Columbia University.
  • October 2022: Statistics Colloquium, Tsinghua University (virtual).
  • September 2022: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
  • September 2022: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (virtual).
  • March 2022: Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (virtual).
  • November 2021: Department of Statistics Colloquium Series at University of Missouri (virtual).
  • August 2021: Joint Statistical Meetings 2021 (virtual).
  • July 2021: Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics (virtual).
  • April 2021: ETH Young Data Science Researcher Seminar (virtual).
  • August 2020: Early career speaker, Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium (virtual).

Selected Honors and Awards

  • IMS New Researcher Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2021.
  • Honorable Mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, University of Michigan, 2020.
  • Inaugural IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2020.
  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2019-2020.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, 2019.
  • Tsinghua Xuetang Talents Program in Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2013-2015.

Miscellaneous

  • May 2025: Jointly with Yuxin Chen, Cong Ma, and Anru Zhang, we are organizing a week-long workshop Statistics meets Tensors: Methodology, Theory, and Applications at IMSI, Chicago.
  • September 2023: Jointly with Jingchen Liu and Zhiliang Ying, we are organizing a two-day Psychometrics Workshop at Columbia University.
  • April 2023: Seunghyun Lee received a Student Travel Award to present our work at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) 2023 in College Park, Maryland. Our working paper is entitled “New Paradigm of Identifiable General-response Diagnostic Models: Beyond Categorical Data”.