UofSC Statistics Department

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21 March 2026 05:03

Dr. Zhiling Gu is a postdoc in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale. Her research lies at the intersection of functional data analysis, spatiotemporal modeling, nonparametric statistics, and artificial intelligence for high-dimensional biomedical and environmental data.

UofSC Statistics Department

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21 March 2026 05:03

Dr. Rentian Yao is a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics at UBC. He got his Ph.D. in Statistics from UIUC and B.S. in Math from Fudan University. He works on optimal transport, computational statistics, and optimization, with a broad interest in the foundations of machine learning.

UofSC Statistics Department

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20 March 2026 15:30

We are very pleased that Drs Zhiling Gu (now post-doc at Yale University; guzhiling.com) and Rentian Yao (now post-doc at the University of British Columbia; lnkd.in/eT6PsXjA) will join us in Aug as our newest tenure-track Assistant Professors. Congratulations!🎊

UofSC Statistics Department

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20 March 2026 02:03

Congrats to Dr. Ting Fung Ma, his collaborator Dr. Ray Bai, and their advisee Fanghua Chen on receiving an NVIDIA Academic Grant for their proposal, “Generative Bootstrapping for Learning and Inference under General Dependence”!🎉 #NVIDIAGrant