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Career

· Assistant Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Stanford Graduate School of Business2025–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, Statistics Department2019–
· PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics2014–

Publications (43)

Non-convex Finite-Sum Optimization Via SCSG Methods
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2017
254
cited
Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets
Journal of the ACM · 2021
239
cited
Conformal inference of counterfactuals and individual treatment effects
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 2020
229
cited
Overlap in observational studies with high-dimensional covariates
Journal of Econometrics · 2017
213
cited
Conformal Risk Control
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2022
201
cited
Testing for outliers with conformal p-values
Annals of Statistics · 2021
178
cited
Learn then Test: Calibrating Predictive Algorithms to Achieve Risk Control
Annals of Applied Statistics · 2021
163
cited
AdaPT: an interactive procedure for multiple testing with side information
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 2016
154
cited
Less than a Single Pass: Stochastically Controlled Stochastic Gradient
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics · 2016
100
cited
Conformalized Survival Analysis.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology · 2021
96
cited
Hierarchical Community Detection by Recursive Partitioning
Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2018
86
cited
Conditional calibration for false discovery rate control under dependence
Annals of Statistics · 2020
52
cited
Regression adjustment in randomized experiments with a diverging number of covariates
2018
48
cited
A general interactive framework for false discovery rate control under structural constraints
2017
47
cited
Asymptotics for high dimensional regression M-estimates: fixed design results
2016
43
cited
Adaptivity of Stochastic Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization
SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science · 2020
35
cited
Power of Ordered Hypothesis Testing
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2016
34
cited
On the Adaptivity of Stochastic Gradient-Based Optimization
SIAM Journal on Optimization · 2019
26
cited
Adaptive novelty detection with false discovery rate guarantee
2022
24
cited
Predictions as Surrogates: Revisiting Surrogate Outcomes in the Age of AI
arXiv.org · 2025
24
cited
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