Hongjian Shi

I am currently a Postdoc at the Statistics Research group, the Technical University of Munich under the direction of Mathias Drton. Prior to this, I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics in 2021 at the University of Washington, where I was advised by Fang Han.

The research projects I have finished so far are concerned with a fundamental problem in statistics, namely, how to properly measure stochastic dependence between random quantities. My research pays much attention to statistical inference that is based on ranking data points and analyzing the ranks rather than the original data.

My current and future research plans, building on the expertise I have developed, will focus on high-dimensional and nonparametric methods, from theoretical as well as methodological perspectives. Moreover, I will turn to new areas in statistical inference.