Centralization or Decentralization? The Evolution of State-Ownership in China
Invited talk at The Arc of Chinese Economy 2023, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Invited talk at China International Conference in Finance (CICF), 2021, Virtual/Shanghai
Equity Ownership Network and Supervised Centrality Estimation
Invited talk at IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) 2022, Florence
Contributed talk at The 14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT) 2022, London
Doubly High-Dimensional Contextual Bandits: An Interpretable Model with Applications to Assortment and Pricing
Invited talk at Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting (POMS) 2024, Minneapolis
Invited talk at The 15th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT) 2023, Berlin
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2023, Toronto
Invited talk at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM) 2023, Montreal
Personalized Reinforcement Learning
Invited talk at Statistics Empowering Data Science (SEEDS) Conference 2023, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Invited talk at IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) 2023, Lisbon
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS) 2023, Phoenix
Optimal Assortment and Pricing via Generalized MNL Models with Poisson Arrival
Invited talk at ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting 2024, Cornell University, Ithaca
Generalized Cp and a Predictive Model Selection Test in Assumption-Lean Framework
Invited talk at The International Chinese Statistical Association Conference (ICSA) 2019, Naikai University, Tianjin
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2018, Vancouver
Invited talk at The Third Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI-3) (joint with Linda Zhao) 2018, Washington University of St. Louis
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2017, Baltimore
Invited talk at Workshop on Chinese Firm-level Data 2017, Beijing
Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Methods for Sparse and Noisy Signals
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2019, Denver
Invited talk at The Fourth Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI-4) (represented Linda Zhao) 2019, Washington University of St. Louis
Invited talk at The International Chinese Statistical Association Conference (ICSA) 2017, Chicago
Innovation and Equity Holding Network
Invited talk at Workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property: Firm Strategies and Policy Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World 2019, Beijing
Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation and Testing for Sparse and Heteroscedastic Signals
Invited talk at The 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT) 2019, London
Ownership Network and Firm Growth: What do Forty Million Companies Tell about the Chinese Economy?
Invited talk at The Sixth Network Science in Economics Conference 2021, Virtual
Semi-Supervised Centrality Estimation and Network Prediction
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2021, Virtual
Supervised Centrality Estimation and Network Prediction
Invited talk at Young Scholars Conference on Machine Learning in Economics and Finance 2021, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Invited talk at Statistics department seminar (joint with Linda Zhao) 2021, George Mason University
Contributed talk at The 14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT) 2021, London