Dr Wenkai Xu

Summary

Im 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 approaches. The approach is via translation and investigate transformation for better understanding.

Statistical Machine Learning
Hypothesis Testing
Comparison of Experiment
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)

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. Due to high demand for answering ST349 enquires in Term2, personal tutees are to arrange meetings by email if needed.