Hengrui is the newest faculty member in the Department of Statistics.  Prior to joining STAT, he was a Postdoc Researcher at the Computational Research Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University at Columbus in 2020. His current research interests include: Bayesian Methods, (e.g., Bayesian optimization, scalable Bayesian modeling and nonparametric processes.) Topological Data Analysis. (e.g., Topology of random sets, dimension reduction and functional data analysis.) and high-dimensional probability. (e.g., Sketching and randomized
algorithms.)