Prof. Lucy L XIA
Assistant Professor, Business Statistics lucyxia@ust.hk




Academic qualification
Ph.D. 2015 Princeton University,Operations Research and Financial Engineering
B.A. 2010 University of Virginia,Mathematics

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssistant Professor of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019-present
Stein Fellow, Department of Statistics, StanfordUniversity, 2015-2019

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ArticlesXia, L., Zhao, R., Wu, Y. and Tong, X.“Intentional Control of TypeI Error over Unconscious Data Distortion: a Neyman-Pearson Approach to Text Classification
A Projection-based Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to High-dimensional Undirected Graphical Models
Neyman-Pearson Classification: Parametrics and Sample Size Requirement
Quadro: A Supervised Dimension Reduction Method via Rayleigh Quotient Optimization
research-interests">RESEARCH INTERESTS High-dimensional Statistics
Machine Learning
Statistical Applications to Social Science and Biology

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HONORSHong Kong RGC General Research Fund (co-PI, Jan 2022-Dec 2024)
Hong Kong RGC Early Career Scheme Research Grant (PI, Jan 2021-Dec 2023)
Finalist, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST 2021
Dean's Recognition of Teaching Excellence, HKUST (2020, 2021)
Junior Faculty Start-up Fund and Faculty Initiation Grant, HKUST (2019)
Wu Prize for Excellence, Princeton University (2013)
APGA Award for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence, Princeton University (2013)
Applied Sciences Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (2010-2015)