Title
Associate Professor
Education
B.S. in Statistics from Peking University (China), M.A. and Ph.D in Statistics from the University of Michigan
Research Areas
Computer Science and Statistics (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Computer Networks, Massive/High Dimensional Data, Computational Methods for Statistics
Notable Experience
Internship at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, working in the performance modeling group to optimize server performance (patent filed for methods and apparatus for automatic system parameter configuration for performance improvement)
Notable Awards
College of Science Interdisciplinary Award, February 2010
The 13th most cited article, Analytical Chemistry, 2007
Publications
Estimating Network Internal Losses Using a New Class Of Probing Experiments (with G. Michailidis and V. N. Nair, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) (2003). A Smart Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Application Server Configuration (with Z. Li, Z. Liu, M. Raghavachari, and C. Xia) Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (2004). Fast Least Squares Algorithms for Estimating and Monitoring Network Link Losses Based on Active Probing Schemes (with G. Michailidis and V. N. Nair) (to be submitted)
