Welcome to my website! I’m a 5th-year Ph.D. student in Department of Statistics at Rutgers University. I am very fortunate to have Pierre C. Bellec as my advisor. Prior to my Ph.D. journey, I earned two master’s degrees in Statistics from University of Kentucky and East China Normal University, and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from Central China Normal University.
Recent news
[Sep. 2024]: The paper “Estimating Generalization Performance Along the Trajectory of Proximal SGD in Robust Regression” is accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[Aug. 2024]: The paper Corrected generalized cross-validation for finite ensembles of penalized estimators is accepted to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology).
[Jun. 2024]: Presented a poster at DIMACS Workshop on Modeling Randomness in Neural Network Training.
[Sep. 2023]: The paper Multinomial Logistic Regression: Asymptotic Normality on Null Covariates in High-Dimensions is accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
[May 2023]: I am honored to receive the Gold Medal of student poster competition at the Conference on Recent Advances in Statistics and Data Science, with a Celebration of Professors Regina Liu and Cun-Hui Zhang’s Special Birthdays.
[March 2023]: I am honored to receive the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award.
[Jan. 2023]: I am honored to receive the Travel Award at the 2023 Statistics Annual Winter Workshop titled “Modern Computational Statistics” hosted by the statistics department at the University of Florida.
Contact me
kai.tan@rutgers.edu
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
477 Hill Center, Busch Campus
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854