Dr Wenkai Xu

Summary

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. I am also affiliated with Foundations of Machine Learning System (FMLS) at University of Tuebingen, lead by Professor Robert Williamson. I am a member of ELLIS society.

Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, hosted by Professor Gesine Reinert. I did my Ph.D. in Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, supervised by Professor Arthur Gretton and Professor Aapo Hyvarinen.

Research

My research interests lie in the statistics and machine learning. Specifically, I work on hypothesis testing, comparing distributions, Stein's method, and network analysis. I am currently particularly interested in the notion of entropy and the connections between different axiomatic stands. My approach is through translation and transformations for better insights.

Statistical Machine Learning
Hypothesis Testing
Comparison of Experiments
Statistical Network Modeling

Teaching

ST349 Machine Learning Framework (24-25)

ST921 Statistical Frontiers (24-25)

SC2 Probability and Statistics for Network Analysis (Oxford)

B8.4 Information Theory (Oxford)

Thanks for those who enquire, unfortunately, I am not available or URSS project this year.

Contact

Address:

Office MSB4.12

Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK

Email:
firstname dot lastname @warwick.ac.uk

Office hour:

Tuesday 10:00-11:00am on Term Time. Office hour for questions shall be pre-booked via email. Due to high demand for answering ST349 enquires in Term2, personal tutees are to arrange meetings by email if needed.