Image: Dr. Yuan Ke, together with Prof. Runze Li (Pennsylvania State University) and Prof. Stéphane Guerrier (University of Geneva), received a new research award from the joint program of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The funded project, titled “Tail-robust Analysis of High-dimensional Nonstationary Time Series,” supports a three-year international collaboration aimed at developing new statistical methodologies and theories for analyzing complex, high-dimensional time series data. Dr. Ke serves as the lead Principal Investigator. Starting January 2025, Dr. Ke will also serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES), a flagship journal jointly published by the American Statistical Association and Taylor & Francis. And finally, two Ph.D. students from Dr. Ke’s group successfully completed their doctoral studies in 2025. Dr. Tianyi Zhang joined Tencent Games (U.S.) as a Senior Data Scientist. Dr. Hyunseok Seung continued in academia as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Type of News/Audience: Departmental
