CV - Xingyu Chen

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Education

Sep 2023 – present — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang, Shanghai 200240, China. Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics. Advisor: Prof. Lin Liu
Sep 2019 – Jun 2023 — Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, China. B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

High-dimensional statistics; causal inference; semiparametric theory; nonparametric theory.

Xingyu Chen, Lin Liu, and Ruiqi Zhang. On computing and the complexity of computing higher-order U-statistics, exactly. Statistics and Computing, 36(5), Article 223 (2026). Journal arXiv:2508.12627

Xingyu Chen, Lin Liu, and Rajarshi Mukherjee. Method-of-moments inference for GLMs and doubly robust functionals under proportional asymptotics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06103, 2024.

2025, 2026 — u-stats (Python package) and ustats (R package) — computing higher-order U-statistics. Available on PyPI / CRAN.
2026 — HOIF (R package) — computing Higher-Order Influence Function (HOIF) estimators for the average treatment effect (ATE). Available on CRAN.

Honors and awards during Ph.D.

2026 — Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA), Mitacs, Canada. Visiting research internship, University of Toronto, 24 weeks in 2027. Host supervisor: Prof. Linbo Wang; home supervisor: Prof. Lin Liu
May 2025 — Best Paper Award, Forum on AI for Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Apr. 2025 — Travel Award, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Chinese Statistical Association of Young Scholars, Jinan, China

Honors and awards during undergraduate

Jun. 2023 — Outstanding Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Dec. 2021 — First Prize, 13th National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (Hubei Division)
Dec. 2020 — National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Ministry of Education of China

May 2026 — Oral, The 2nd Science and Technology Academic Month Doctoral Forum, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Jan. 2026 — Poster, 2026 Joint Workshop of RMTA (Random Matrix Theory and Applications) and SNAB (Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond), Nanjing, China
Nov. 2025 — Oral, The 1st National High-level Doctoral Student Academic Forum, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Nov. 2025 — Oral, The 6th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Workshop on Mathematics and Statistics & Graduate Student Forum, Baoding, China
Nov. 2025 — Oral, The 3rd National Frontier Mathematics Doctoral Student Academic Exchange Forum, Peking University, Beijing, China
Sep. 2025 — Oral, 2025 Joint Annual Conference of CAAS-SIRB (Statistical Interdisciplinary Research Branch, Chinese Association for Applied Statistics) and CAISER-ESDSB (Ethnic Statistics and Data Science Branch, Chinese Association of Industrial Statistical Education and Research), Shanghai, China
May 2025 — Oral, Forum on AI for Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Apr. 2025 — Oral, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Chinese Statistical Association of Young Scholars, Jinan, China
Apr. 2025 — Poster, European Causal Inference Meeting 2025, Ghent, Belgium

Dec. 2022 — Main contributor of the Chinese translation of “Fernholz, L. T., and S. Morgenthaler. A conversation with John W. Tukey and Elizabeth Tukey. Statistical Science, 15(1): 79-94, 2000.” for Capital of Statistics (COS), a leading online platform for the Chinese statistical community, established in 2006.

Fall 2025 — Teaching Assistant, Advanced Mathematical Statistics (Ph.D. Course), School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Instructor: Lin Liu
Spring 2025 — Teaching Assistant, Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate Course), School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Instructor: Peng Luo
Fall 2024 — Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra (Undergraduate Course), School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Instructor: Zhen Cui

R, Python, Mathematica, C++, Matlab

Last updated: October 13, 2026