I am an Associate Professor of Data Science and Statistics (with early tenure and promotion) in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences (ISDS) of College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Before joining CSUF, I was Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at University of Central Florida. Prior to working at UCF, I was as Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Data Sciences and Operations Department at the University of Southern California working with Prof. Yingying Fan and Prof. Jinchi Lv. I received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Manchester under the supervision of Prof. Jianxin Pan.

Email: dali1234[at]1234fullerton5678[dot]edu5678 (Please remove all numbers)

Phone: (657) 278 3871

Office: Steven G. Mihaylo Hall (SGMH) 4159

Mailing Address: 800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Research Interests

My research interests include Feature Screening, Variable Selection, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, High Dimensional Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Missing Data, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Data Mining with applications to Business, Public Health, Medicine, Biology, Engineering and Social Media. My papers have been published in leading journals in statistics, including the Annals of Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Examples of my research projects include reducing lending risks for commercial banks, predicting wildfires using big data, forecasting Solar Power using new statistical models, and classifying breast cancer data.