April 12, 2022
Zhanrui Cai was hired as a tenure-eligible assistant professor. Cai received his PhD in Statistics from Penn State and is currently a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University. Cai will join the Department in June.
Research interests:
- High dimensional inference
- Distribution-free inference
- Machine learning
- Causal discovery
- Statistical genetics
Awards:
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award. 2020
- Award for Distinguished Performance on the Ph.D. qualifier exam. Penn State. 2017
- University Graduate Fellowship. Penn State. 2016 - 2018
