Tony Cai's Biosketch

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Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University, 1996.

Academic Appointments:

• Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Statistics, The Wharton School.
• Professor, Applied Math. & Computational Science Graduate Group.
• Associate Scholar, Dept. of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Medicine.

Editorial Appointments:

• Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2010-2012

• Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2004-2009
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2005-2010
• Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2005-2011
• Associate Editor, Statistics Surveys, 2006-2009
• Editorial Board, Frontiers of Statistics book series, 2009-present
• Guest Editor, Statistica Sinica Special Issue on Multiscale Methods
• Guest Editor, J. Nonparametric Statistics Special Issue for the Inaugural IMS-China International Conference

Honors & Awards:

• Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009
• The 2008 COPSS Presidents' Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, for outstanding contributions to statistics.
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006

Research Grants:

• NSF Focused Research Group Grant DMS-0854973, 2009-2012.
  Statistical inference for high-dimensional data: Theory, methodology and applications
• NSF grant DMS-0604954, 2006-2009.
  Theory and methodology for sparse inference
• NSF grant DMS-0306576, 2003-2006.
  An adaptation theory for nonparametric function estimation.
• NSF grant DMS-0072578, 2000-2003.
  Block thresholding methods for adaptive wavelet function estimation: Theory and applications.

Professional Society Membership:

• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• American Statistical Association
• International Chinese Statistical Association

Research Interests: High dimensional inference, large-scale multiple testing, nonparametric function estimation, functional data analysis, inference for discrete distributions, and statistical decision theory. I am also interested in applications to compressed sensing, chemical identification, medical imaging and genetics.

Publications: Papers can be downloaded here.

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