Lei Shi

Welcome to my homepage! I am a Ph.D. student in Berkeley Biostatistics. I am very fortunate to be advised by Professor Jingshen Wang and Professor Peng Ding. I obtained my B.S degree in School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University where I was advised by Professor Changliang Zou. In the summer of 2019, I visited Professor Lingzhou Xue's lab at PSU. More links:

Recent News

• 05.2024: Internship at Adobe Research;

• 05.2024: Received 2024 SCI Travel Scholarship, presented by Society for Causal Inference;

• 04.2024: Received 2024 JSM Students Travel Award, presented by SFASA;

• 01.2024: Received Travel Award for Winter Workshop on Causal Inference and its Applications;

• 06.2023 - 05.2024: Long-term Internship at Genentech;

• 03.2023: Received Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award;

• 03.2023: Received 2023 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award Winner;

• 10.2022: Passed my Ph.D. Qualification Exam and formally become a Ph.D. candidate! Many thanks to my advisors Jingshen Wang and Peng Ding, as well as Professor Lexin Li and Professor Will Fithian who kindly agreed to serve on my Committee;

• 08.2022: JSM 2022 in Washington DC;

• 06.2022: Conference “Statistics in the Big Data Era” (Bickel's 80th birthday celebration);

• 08.2021: Started my in person Berkeley journey (finally)! Tired but happy :)

Professional Service

Peer Review

• I have served as reviewers for several journals: Journal of Machine Learning Research, Annals of Applied Statistics, Journal of Causal Inference, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Conference

• 08.2023: JSM 2023, session chair for “Statistical inference focused reinforcement learning and adaptive experiments”;

• 05.2022: ACIC 2022, volunteer;

Awards

• 2024 SCI Travel Scholarship, Society for Causal Inference

• 2024 JSM Students Travel Award, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of American Statistical Association

• 2024 Winter Workshop on Causal Inference and its Applications, Travel Award

• 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

• 2023 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award Winner

• 2017 - 2019 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China