The Statistics Group in HKU Business School
We are a research group focusing on statistics and business analytics at the HKU Business School. The group consists of 6 full-time faculty. The group’s main research interests span the frontiers of modern statistical methodology and applications. The specific research directions include (but are not limited to) machine learning, artificial intelligence, high dimensional statistical inference, functional data, time series analysis, econometrics, factor models, and privacy protection. Our research is widely applied in areas such as health care, bioinformatics, service engineering, financial market, educational assessments, and psychological measurements.
Prospective Ph.D. applicants are welcome to get in touch with any faculty members for further information!
News
July 31, 2024
Professor Weichen Wang received the RGC General Research Fund 17310024 “Semiparametric Nonnegative Tensor Factorization with Covariates”.
June 3, 2024
The group successfully held the Summer workshop on Statistics and Data Analytics.
April 3, 2024
Dr. Jianlong Shao passed the PhD oral examination!
July 31, 2023
Professor Weichen Wang received the RGC Early Career Scheme funding 27307623 “Ranking Inferences with Multiway Comparisons”.
July 5, 2023
The group successfully held the first summer workshop on statistics and data analytics.
June 23, 2023
Dr. Suxi Zheng passed the PhD oral examination!