Fengnan GAOdr. ir.
Lecturer / Assistant Professor · since September 2023
Basically a mathematician, mostly a statistician, often a coder, sometimes a data scientist, occasionally a probabilist, and lately an AI enthusiast.
Research Interests
- Theoretical Aspects of Deep Learning in Statistics
- Nonparametric Bayesian Statistics
- Changepoint Analysis
- Statistics in Science & Society
Short CV
- Sep. 2023 – present Lecturer / Assistant Professor, University College Dublin, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Dublin, Ireland · permanent post - Jul. 2023 – Sep. 2023 Associate Professor, Fudan University, School of Data Science
Shanghai, China - Sep. 2016 – Jun. 2023 Assistant Professor, Fudan University, School of Data Science
Shanghai, China · jointly appointed at the Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences (2016–2022) - Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2016 PhD, Leiden University
advised by Aad van der Vaart - Sep. 2010 – Sep. 2011 M.Sc., Eindhoven University of Technology
- Aug. 2009 – Aug. 2010 M.Sc., Kaiserslautern University of Technology
- Sep. 2005 – Jun. 2009 B.Sc., Nanjing University
A more detailed CV is available upon request.