Prof. Lilun DU
Assistant Professor, Business Statistics dulilun@ust.hk




Academic qualification
PhD 2015, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Statistics
M.S. 2010, Nankai University, Statistics
B.S. 2007, Nankai University, Mathematics

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssistant Professor of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015-present

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ArticlesDu, L., Guo, X., Sun, W. and Zou, C. (2021), "False Discovery Rate Control Under General Dependence by Symmetrized Data Aggregation
Separation of Perishable Inventories in Offline Retailing through Transshipment
An Empirical Bayes Method for Chi-Squared Data
A Data-Driven Approach to High-Volume Recruitment: Application to Student Admission
Single-index Modulated Multiple Testing
https://github.com/dulilun/sdafilter">sdafilter' for the SDA paper is available at GitHub.
R package 'EBCHS' for the chi-squared paper (Du and Hu, 2020) is available at GitHub.

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SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONReviewer, Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Journal of American Statistical Association, and others.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Large-scale inference
Dynamic decision
Empirical bayes methods

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HONORSHong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF)(2021-2023, PI), "A Unified Framework for Multiple Testing with Auxiliary Information: a Sample-splitting Approach"
Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (GRF)(2021-2023, Co-I), "High-Volume Recruiting: Theory and Applications"
Dean's Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, HKUST Business School, 2019
Dean's Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, HKUST Business School, 2018
Hong Kong RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) (2016-2019, PI), "Dynamic False Discovery Rate with Application to Sequential and Spatial Pattern Detection"
Travel Award, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) (2014)
Honorable Mention, the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) (2007)
First Class Award, National High School Mathematical Olympic Contest (2002)