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 7 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
August 27, 2025
Professor Weichen Wang received the Young Scientist Fund (Type B) (formerly the Excellent Young Scientists Fund) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
August 27, 2025
Professor Zhanrui Cai received the Young Scientist Fund (Type C) (formerly the Young Scientists Fund) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
June 27, 2025
Professor Jing Ouyang received RGC Early Career Scheme funding 27308125 Nonlinear Factor Models with High-Dimensional Covariates: Identifiability, Inference, and Applications.
June 27, 2025
Professor Zhanrui Cai received RGC Early Career Scheme funding 27301925 Statistical Inference for Differentially Private Algorithms.
June 10, 2025
The group successfully held the Summer workshop on Statistics and Data Analytics.
July 31, 2024
Professor Weichen Wang received the RGC General Research Fund 17310024 “Semiparametric Nonnegative Tensor Factorization with Covariates”.