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• IMSI Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from Offline Data and Human Feedback, Chicago, April. 2026 (invited), Demystify LLM Reasoning through U-statistics Theory

• Workshop on Detecting LLM-generated Content, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, April. 2026 (invited), Demystify LLM Reasoning through U-statistics Theory

• Seminar at Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, April. 2026 (invited), Demystify LLM Reasoning through U-statistics Theory

• Seminar at Schoo of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwest Normal University, China, April. 2026 (invited), Demystify LLM Reasoning through U-statistics Theory

• Chinese Statistical Association of Scholars Spring Forum, April. 2026 (invited), Demystify LLM Reasoning through U-statistics Theory

• Seminar at School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, Feb. 2026 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Sanya Workshop on Causality and Machine Learning, Sanya, China, Jan. 2026 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Jan 2026 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, Jan 2026 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China, Dec 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at Beijing Technology and Business University, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing, China, Dec 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• CMStatistics, London, UK, Dec. 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at Kunming University of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics, Yunnan, China, Dec 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at Yunnan University, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Yunnan, China, Dec 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at University of Hong Kong Business School, HK, China, Nov 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, HK, China, Nov 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China, Nov 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, Nov 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• UCL JumpTrading/ELLIS CSML Seminar Series, London, UK, Oct 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Seminar at University of Birmingham, Department of Mathematics, Birmingham, UK, Oct 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• FAI-Seminar, Oct 2025 (invited), Statistics-powered AI

• Keynote Talk @ Workshop on Foundation Models and their Biomedical Applications, Banff, Canada, Aug 2025 (invited), From Theory to Practice: Challenges in Real-World Reinforcement Learning

• Joint Statistical Meeting, Nashville, USA, Aug 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at Nankai University, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Aug 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at Shangdong University of Finance and Statistics, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at SHUFE, Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics, Shanghai, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at SHUFE, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Big Data Statistics Workshop at School of Statistics, ECNU, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Joint Conference on Statistics and Data Science, Hangzhou, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Tsinghua Statistics + AI Frontier Summit, Beijing, China, July 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at Warwick, Department of Computer Science, Coventry, UK, May 2025 (invited), Doubly robust alignment for LLMs

• Seminar at Warwick, Department of Statistics, Coventry, UK, Feb 2025 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Nankai University, School of Statistics and Data Science, Tianjin, China, Jan 2025 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• AI Keynote Talk at LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, Jan 2025 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China, Jan 2025 (invited), Combining Experimental and Historical Data for Policy Evaluation

• Seminar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai, China, Jan 2025 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Zhejiang Gongshang University, School of Statistics and Mathematics, Hangzhou, China, Jan 2025 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Dec 2024 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing

• Seminar at School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Dec 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• CMStatistics, London, UK, Dec. 2024 (invited), Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• 2024 First Macau International Conference on Business Intelligence and Analytics, Macau, China, Dec 2024 (invited) ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Keynote Talk at the 10th Young Statisticians Workshop, Shanghai, China, Nov 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Antai College, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Nov 2024 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing

• First Interdisciplinary Conference on Statistics and Management Science, Hefei, China, Nov 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Xiamen University, School of Economics and Management, Xiamen, China, Oct 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Statistics Seminar at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China, Oct 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Oct 2024 (invited), Combining Experimental and Historical Data for Policy Evaluation

• Seminar at National University of Singapore, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Singapore, Oct 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Yunnan University, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Yunnan, China, Dec 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Mathematical Foundations in AI at Tianyuan Mathematical Research Center, Kunming, Yunan, China, Sep 2024 (invited), A/B Testing in Two-Sided Marketplaces: Data Integration, Designs and Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Tsinghua University, Department of Mathematics, Beijing, China, Sep 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Royal Statistical Society (RSS) 2024 Conference, Brighton, UK, Sep 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, Oregon, USA, Aug 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Workshop on Causal Machine Learning in Economics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, July 2024 (invited), Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at SHUFE, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, July 2024 (invited), A/B Testing in Two-Sided Marketplaces: Data Integration, Designs and Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Renmin University of China, Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Beijing, China, May 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China, May 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at Peking University, Center for Statistical Science, Beijing, China, May 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 2024 (invited), ARMA-Design: Optimal Design for A/B Testing in Two-sided Marketplaces

• Seminar at School of Management Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, April 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Prof. Jian Kang's lab, University of Michigan, MI, US, April 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, UK, Mar. 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, US, Feb. 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Champaign, US, Feb. 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, US, Feb. 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Department of Management Science, Miami Herbert Business School, Miami, US, Feb. 2024 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• International Conference on Data Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2023 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing

• Stat seminar at University of Bristol, School of Mathematics, Bristol, UK, Nov. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at University of California Irvine, Department of Statistics, California, US, Nov. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Mathematical Science, Texas, US, Oct. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• AMCS seminar at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, Oct. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning Workshop, Cambridge, UK, Sep. 2023 (invited), Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data: Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• Seminar at Jiangsu Univeristy, School of Mathematical Science, Zhenjiang, China, Sep. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, School of Statistics and Mathematics, Shanghai, China, Sep. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China, Sep. 2023 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at University of International Business and Economics, School of Statistics, Beijing, China, Sep. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Beijing Normal University, School of Statistics, Beijing, China, Aug. 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at SHUFE, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Aug. 2023 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Stat seminar at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Aug. 2023 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics Annual Meeting, Fuzhou, China, Aug. 2023 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Hangzhou International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science, Hangzhou, China, Aug. 2023 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• JSM Meeting, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2023 (invited but did not present due to visa issues), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Center for Data Science, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, April 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Tengyao's Research Group, LSE, London, UK, April 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• RL+X Reading Seminar, Online, Mar 2023 (invited), Reinforcement Learning for Ridesharing Bilibili link here

• AI2Healthcare Weekly Online Meeting, Mar 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning Youtube link here

• Computational Statistics and Machine learning Seminar at Oxford, Department of Statistics, Oxford, UK, Feb 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Stanford, Department of Statistics, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Jan 2023 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Yunnan University, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Yunnan, China, Dec 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• CMStatistics, London, UK, Dec. 2022 (invited), Doubly Inhomogeneous Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Xiamen University, School of Economics and Management, Xiamen, China, Nov 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Conference on "Statistical challenges and new solutions for large-scale complex data", Yunnan, China, Nov 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in (Doubly) Inhomogeneous Environment

• Seminar at Shandong University Institude for Financial Studies, Shandong, China, Nov 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in Possibly Nonstationary Environment

• Seminar at Prof. Kosorok's Lab, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Nov 2022 (invited), Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at SHUFE, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Nov 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Tianyuan Mathematical Center in Central China, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Nov 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at China East Normal University, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Oct 2022 (invited), Testing Mediation Effects using the Logic of Boolean Matrices

• Seminar at China East Normal University, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Oct 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in Possibly Nonstationary Environment

• Seminar at University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management, Hefei, China, Oct 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at China East Normal University, School of Statistics, Shanghai, China, Oct 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China, Sep 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Peking University, Center for Statistical Science, Beijing, China, Aug 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Tsinghua University, Center for Statistical Science, Beijing, China, Aug 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• JSM Meeting, DC, US, Aug. 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in Possibly Nonstationary Environment

• Seminar at the University of Hong Kong, HK, China, Aug 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in Nonstationary Environment

• ICSA Meeting, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, July 2022 (invited), Double Generative Adversarial Networks for Conditional Independence Testing

• The 2022 Annual Meeting of IMS, London, UK, June 2022 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing

• Stat seminar at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China, June 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• EcoSta 2022, Tokyo, Japan, June 2022 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing

• Seminar at coreAI Science Talk Series, Amazon, Online, May 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at the Duke Reinforcement Learning Group, Durham, NC, US, April 2022 (invited), Reinforcement Learning in Possibly Nonstationary Environment

• Stat Seminar at University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, US, Mar. 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Online Causal Inference Seminar, Mar. 2022 (invited), A Reinforcement Learning Framework for A/B Testing Youtube link here

• Seminar at Shandong University Institude for Financial Studies, Shandong, China, Mar. 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Stat seminar at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Mar. 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Biostat Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan. 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Applied Reinforcement Learning (ARL) Seminar, Online, Jan. 2022 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning Youtube link here Bilibili link here

• Stat seminar at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, Nov. 2021 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Online, Oct. 2021 (invited), Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data: Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• European Young Statisticians Meeting, Online, Sep. 2021 (invited), Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data: Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• EuroCIM, Online, Sep. 2021, Testing Mediation Effects Using Logic of Boolean Matrices

• JSM, Online, Aug. 2021 (invited), Testing Directed Acyclic Graph via Structural, Supervised and Generative Adversarial Learning

• Conference of "Statistical learning methods in modern AI" (invited), Xi'an, China, June. 2021 (invited), Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data? Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• Stat seminar at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, June. 2021 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• Seminar at Purdue Reinforcement Learning Group, West Lafayette, USA, April. 2021 (invited), Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning

• CMStatistics, London, UK, Dec. 2020 (invited), Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data? Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• Applied Reinforcement Learning (ARL) Seminar, Online, Nov. 2020 (invited), Discussion on "Statistically Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning" Youtube link here Bilibili link here

• Stat seminar at Fudan University, Shanghai, Aug. 2020 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• JMS, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug. 2020, Does the Markov Decision Process Fit the Data? Testing for the Markov Property in Sequential Decision Making

• EEE seminar at Imperial College London, London, UK, Feb. 2020 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• Stat seminar at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Feb. 2020 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• Stat seminar at SHUFE, Shanghai, China, Jan. 2020 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• ICSA, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Dec. 2019 (invited), Statistical inference of the Value Function for Reinforcement Learning in Infinite Horizon Settings

• Biostat seminar at NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA, Nov. 2019 (invited), On Testing Overall/Conditional Qualitative Treatment Effects

• Stat seminar at University of York, York, UK, Oct. 2019 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• Stat seminar at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China, Aug. 2019 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

• JSM, Denver, CO, USA, Aug. 2019 (invited), A Sparse Random Projection-based Test for Overall Qualitative Treatment Effects.

• ICSA, Raleigh, NC, USA, June. 2019 (invited), A Sparse Random Projection-based Test for Overall Qualitative Treatment Effects.

• Biostat seminar at NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA, Sep. 2018 (invited), On Statistical Learning for Individualized Treatment Regime.

• Poster presentation at NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium, NC, USA, 2018, Maximin-Projection Learning for Optimal Treatment Decision with Heterogeneous Individualized Treatment Effects.

• JSM, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2017, On Testing Conditional Qualitative Treatment Effects.

• JSM, Chicago, IL, USA, 2016, Minimax-Angle Learning for Optimal Treatment Decision with Heterogeneous Data.

• ENAR, Austin, TX, 2016, High Dimensional A-learning for Optimal Treatment Regime.