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Career

· PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley2014–2019
· Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech2011–2011
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech
· Associate Professor, Nanjing University
· Undergraduate Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
· PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Publications (48)

A Nondegenerate Penalized Likelihood Estimator for Variance Parameters in Multilevel Models
Psychometrika · 2013
448
cited
ON THE STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION OF ITERATIVE IMPUTATIONS
2010
126
cited
Weakly Informative Prior for Point Estimation of Covariance Matrices in Hierarchical Models
2015
110
cited
State-dependent importance sampling for regularly varying random walks
Advances in Applied Probability · 2008
64
cited
Decentralized Anonymous Micropayments
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques · 2017
51
cited
Efficient Monte Carlo for high excursions of Gaussian random fields
2010
50
cited
Fluid heuristics, Lyapunov bounds and efficient importance sampling for a heavy-tailed G/G/1 queue
Queueing Syst. Theory Appl. · 2007
37
cited
Tail approximations of integrals of Gaussian random fields
2010
26
cited
Some Asymptotic Results of Gaussian Random Fields with Varying Mean Functions and the Associated Processes
2011
24
cited
Efficient simulation for tail probabilities of Gaussian random fields
Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications · 2008
19
cited
A Rate Function Approach to Computerized Adaptive Testing for Cognitive Diagnosis
Psychometrika · 2013
18
cited
Efficient importance sampling in ruin problems for multidimensional regularly varying random walks
Journal of Applied Probability · 2010
18
cited
The Convergence Rate and Asymptotic Distribution of the Bootstrap Quantile Variance Estimator for Importance Sampling
Advances in Applied Probability · 2012
18
cited
Avoiding Boundary Estimates in Linear Mixed Models Through Weakly Informative Priors
2012
17
cited
On the conditional distributions and the efficient simulations of exponential integrals of Gaussian random fields
2012
17
cited
On the Density Functions of Integrals of Gaussian Random Fields
Advances in Applied Probability · 2013
14
cited
Large deviations perspective on ordinal optimization of heavy-tailed systems
Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications · 2008
13
cited
Efficient Rare Event Simulation for Failure Problems in Random Media
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing · 2014
12
cited
Efficient simulation and conditional functional limit theorems for ruinous heavy-tailed random walks
2010
12
cited
A non-degenerate estimator for hierarchical variance parameters via penalized likelihood estimation
2011
11
cited
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