Fengnan's Scientific Adventures

Trivia

I have the Erdős number of 3 via Remco van der Hofstad and Svante Janson.

Submitted

• Cautious explorers generate more future academic impact
• Sparse change detection in high-dimensional linear regression
• Statistical Inference in Parametric Preferential Attachment Trees

Papers

• Transition Time Determination of Single-Molecule FRET Trajectories via Wasserstein Distance Analysis in Steady-state Variations in smFRET (WAVE)
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, supplementary cover
• A very Dutch scandal: Did overhyped stats ruin Dutch appetites?
  Significance cover story, August issue, 2023
• Pitfalls of amateur regression: The Dutch New Herring controversies
  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
• Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching
  Annals of Statistics
• Community detection in sparse latent space models
  Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Consistent Estimation in General Sublinear Preferential Attachment Trees
  Electronic Journal of Statistics
• On the Asymptotic Normality of Estimating the Affine Preferential Attachment Network Models with Random Initial Degrees
  Stochastic Processes and their Applications
• Posterior contraction rates for deconvolution of Dirichlet-Lapalace mixtures
  Electronic Journal of Statistics

Packages

• WAVE MATLAB Implementation of WAVE (Wasserstein Distance Analysis in Steady-state Variations in smFRET)
• charcoal R Implementation of the changepoint localization methods of high-dimensional regression coefficients via the complementary sketching algorithm
• compsket R/Python/MATLAB Implementation of the complementary sketching algorithm for two sample testing of high-dimensional regression coefficients

Academic Talks

This is an updating list of the talks that I have given so far in reverse chronological order.

1. Invited speaker in ICSA 2022 China Conference, July 2022 on Microsoft Teams
2. Invited speaker in IMS London Meeting 2022, June 2022 on Zoom
3. Invited seminar talk in Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University, February 2022 on Zoom
4. Invited panelist speaker in 2020 ISBA World Meeting, June 2021 on Zoom
5. Invited seminar speaker in Center for Statistical Sciences of Peking University, December 2020 in Beijing, China
6. Invited seminar speaker in School of Mathematical Sciences of Capital Normal University, November 2020 on Zoom
7. Invited speaker of Data Science Seminar of INS of Shanghai Jiaotong University, September 2020 on Zoom
8. Invited speaker of The 11th ICSA International Conference, December 2019 in Hangzhou, China
9. Invited seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London, November 2019 in London, the UK
10. Invited speaker of a 45-min lecture at The 8th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians of 2019, June 2019 in Beijing, China
11. Invited seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics of Queen Mary University of London February 2019 in London, the U.K.
12. Invited speaker at Richard Samworth's research group meeting, February 2019 in Cambridge, the U.K.
13. Invited speaker in Data Science Seminar, January 2019 in Twente - Enschede, the Netherlands
14. Invited speaker in 2018 ICSA China, July 2018 in Qingdao, China
15. Invited speaker in 2018 IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, June 2018 in Singapore
16. Invited speaker in ICSA 2018 Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2018 in New Brunswick, NJ, the USA
17. Invited speaker in Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, May 2018 in Taipei
18. Invited speaker in workshop Complex Time Series Modelling and Forecasting: Dynamic Network, Spatio-temporal Data, and Functional Processes
    January 2018 in Sanya, China
19. Invited speaker in CMStatistics 2017, December 2017 in London, the UK
20. Invited speaker in Community Detection and Network Reconstruction workshop, September 2017 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
21. Invited speaker in the annual meeting of IMS-China, June 2017 in Nanning, Guangxi, China
22. Invited speaker in the closing workshop "Dynamic Networks" in the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
    December 2016 in Cambridge, the UK
23. Invited talk in School of Management of Fudan University, November 2016 in Shanghai, China
24. World Congress in Probability and Statistics, July 2016 in Toronto, Canada
25. Invited talk in Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, May 2016 in Shanghai, China
26. Invited talk in Institute of Natural Sciences of Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 2016 in Shanghai, China
27. Invited talk in School of Data Science of Fudan University, April 2016 in Shanghai, China
28. Invited talk in School of Statistics and Management of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, April 2016 in Shanghai, China
29. Invited talk in Statistics for Structures Seminar, November 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
30. Statistics Mathematics and Applications, September 2015 in Fréjus, France
31. European Meeting of Statisticians, July 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
32. 10th Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics, June 2015 in Raleigh, NC, the USA
33. 23rd Meeting of PhD students in Stochastics, May 2015 in Hilversum, the Netherlands
34. Invited talk in the Bayes Club, June 2014 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Grants

• 2018 - 2020, PI of Optimal Statistical Inference in Preferential Attachment Network Models,
  Youth Award, Granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China
  
• 2017 - 2021, Co-PI of Optimal Statistical Inferences of Non-IID Data,
  As part of Statistical Foundation and Analytical Methods of Big Data,
  National Key Project, Granted by National natural science foundation of China
  

Awards

• IMS travel award, 2016
• ISBA travel award, 2015

Theses

• Bayes and Networks
  Leiden University, Doctoral Thesis
• Modeling and Inference of the Internet Movie Database
  Eindhoven University of Technology, Master's Thesis

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September 2023