Prof. DU Lilun (杜理論教授)

Lilun DU is an Associate Professor of Management Sciences at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. His research interests include large-scale inference, empirical Bayes methods, and operations research.

Recruitment of PhD students

I am interested in taking PhD students to work in the area of statistics, econometrics, and optimization. General requirements are the following:

1. Undergraduate degree in math/stat with GPA >=85/100 from a 985 university (or equivalent). Master degree is not necessary but a master degree from a good university is a plus.

2. English requirement: TOEFL>=79 or IELTS>=6.5, unless your first degree was obtained from an institution where the language of teaching is English

Research Grant

• PI: "Assumption-lean Variable Selection with FDR Control by Sample-Splitting", SRG-Fund - City University of Hong Kong , Amount: 100,000 (2023-2025) , Lilun DU
• PI: "A unified framework for multiple testing with auxiliary information: a sample-splitting approach", GRF - RGC , Amount: 396,967 (2021-2023) , Lilun Du and Changliang Zou
• co-PI: "High- Volume Recruiting: Theory and Applications", GRF - RGC , Amount: 622, 000 (2021-2023) , Qing LI and Lilun DU
• PI: "Dynamic false discovery rate with application to sequential and spatial pattern detection", ECS - RGC , Amount: 425,304 (2016-2019) , Lilun DU

Teaching Activities (current academic year)

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