Blending Statistics and Machine Learning

Guodong Li (李國棟) Professor Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Email: gdli@hku.hk Member of Institute of Data Science, HKU HKU Scholars Hub, WoS ResearcherID and Google Scholar

Biography

I joined the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, in 2009 as an Assistant Professor, and I am currently a Professor. Prior to this, I had worked at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as an Assistant Professor since I received my PhD degree in statistics from the University of Hong Kong in 2007. I got my Bachelor and Master degrees in Statistics from Peking University.

Research Interests

• Time series analysis; Quantile regression;

• Econometrics;

• High-dimensional analysis;

• Machine learning.

Current Group Members

• PostDoc Fellow: Wenyu Li; Huiling Yuan; Xiaoyu Zhang

• PhD students: Lan Li (2022 - ); Yuxi Cai (2021 - ); Qinshuo Liu (2021 - ); Kexin Lu (2020 - ); Yuefeng Si (2020 - ); Yifeng Guo (2020 - ); Feiqing Huang (2019 - ); Yanwen Fang (2019 - );

Past Group Members

• Academic positions:

  • Di Wang, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (PhD graduate in 2020);

  • Yao Zheng, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut (PhD graduate in 2017);

  • Qianqian Zhu, School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (PhD graduate in 2017);

  • Zhao Liu, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (MPhil graduate in 2013).

• Industry positions: Jingyu Zhao (PhD graduate in 2021); Ruochen Zeng (PhD graduate in 2017); Yang Li (PhD graduate in 2013); Yuan Li (MPhil graduate in 2013)