Fan Dai

Assistant Professor

Faculty

Statistics

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Areas of Study & Research

  • High-dimensional data inference
  • Statistical computing
  • Machine learning
  • Data visualization

Other Research Interests

Develop scalable statistical learning approaches for applications in areas such as agriculture, engineering, genomics, astronomy, and social media.

Courses Taught

  • STAT 713 - Introduction to Data Science
  • STAT 860 - Statistical Machine Learning

Previous Work

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University
  • Graduate Statistical Consultant, Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station (AES) / Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Professional Associations

  • American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
  • International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)
  • Astrostatistics Interest Group (AIG), ASA

Education

  • PhD, Statistics, Iowa State University
  • MS, Statistical and Economic Modeling, Duke University
  • BS, Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics