Biography

Education

• Visiting Ph.D. Student;

  • Jan. 2026 - Present;

  • MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;

  • Host: Dr. David Robertson.

  • Working on exact inference for covariate-adjusted response-adaptive designs in collaboration with Dr. David Robertson and Dr. Stef Baas.

• Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics;

  • Sept. 2021 - June 2026 (Expected);

  • Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China;

  • GPA: 3.84/4.0;

  • Supervisor: Prof. Wei Ma.

• B.S. in Statistics;

  • Sept. 2016 - June 2021;

  • Special Class for the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;

  • Major GPA: 3.95/4.3, Total GPA: 3.75/4.3;

  • Initially majored in Physics (Sept. 2017 - June 2018).

Internship Experience

• Clinical Biostatistics Intern, Adaptive Strategy;

  • Astellas Pharma, Clinical Biometrics Function, Beijing, China;

  • June 2025 - Aug. 2025;

  • Mentors: Dr. Zhiyue Huang and Satoshi Yoshida;

  • Developed adaptive enrollment strategies for single-arm survival trials under practical covariate shift.

  • Presented project results in internal seminars, including a China–Japan joint statistics meeting and a final internship presentation within the Clinical Biometrics Function.

• Research & Development Intern, Audio Augmentation;

  • Honor Device, R&D Management Department, Nanjing, China;

  • July 2021;

  • Mentor: Dr. Lei Fang;

  • Augmented synthetic speech with room-reverberation simulation to boost automatic speech recognition robustness.

Presentations

• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Causal Inference in the Real-World Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2026 — Upcoming Poster Presentation
  Title: Covariate-adaptive enrollment for single-arm trials using external controls

• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Causal Inference in Biomedicine Workshop, Bristol, UK, 2026 — Upcoming Poster Presentation
  Title: Covariate-adaptive enrollment for single-arm trials using external controls

• MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Efficient Study Design Discussion Group, Cambridge, UK, 2026 — Invited Talk
  Title: Covariate-adaptive randomization with many strata: Asymptotic theory and statistical inference

• Drug Information Association, Quantitative Science Forum, Nanjing, China, 2025 — Invited Speaker
  Title: Covariate-adaptive enrollment for single-arm survival trials using external controls

• Chinese Statistical Association of Young Statisticians, Ph.D. Student Forum, Jinan, China, 2025 — Travel Award & Oral Presentation
  Title: Inference under covariate-adaptive randomization with many strata

• National Graduate Student Statistics Forum, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Section, Beijing, China, 2024 — Selected Paper & Oral Presentation
  Title: Inference under covariate-adaptive randomization with many strata

Specialized Training

• AI and Large Language Models Workshop - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (Feb. 2026)
  

  • Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery

• Analyses of Complex Experiments - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University (Dec. 2025)

  • Short course by Prof. Peng Ding (UC Berkeley)

• Experimental Design and A/B Testing - Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (July - Aug. 2024)

  • Business Analysis Workshop by Tencent

• Reinforcement Learning - Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China (Dec. 2023)

  • Short course by Prof. Chengchun Shi (LSE)

• Topics and Recent Advances in Statistical Inference - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University (June, July & Dec. 2023)

  • Short course by Prof. Peng Ding (UC Berkeley)

• Semiparametric Learning - Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China (July 2023)

  • Short Course by Prof. Yanyuan Ma (Penn State)

Teaching Assistant Experience

• Renmin University of China

  • Adaptive Design and Reinforcement Learning (Spring 2025)

  • Advanced Statistical Computation (Fall 2024)

  • Advanced Applied Statistics and Data Analysis (Spring 2024)

  • Statistical Models and Inference (Fall 2022)

• University of Science and Technology of China

  • Complex Analysis (Spring 2020)

  • Optics and Atomic Physics (Spring 2019)