Before that, he was an assistant professor in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University from August 2016 to June 2018, a research fellow with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley from January 2016 to June 2016, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Statistics Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from January 2015 to December 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree from UIUC in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Bruce Hajek, the M.S. degree from UT-Austin in 2011, and the B.E. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include data science, high-dimensional statistical inference, information theory, convex and non-convex optimization, queueing theory, and game theory.