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About BDAL-RUC

Hello everyone, I'm Cheng Meng, currently an Assistant Professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Institute of Statistics and Big Data at Renmin University of China (RUC). My primary research interests lie in big data statistics, optimal transport, artificial intelligence, and industrial statistics.

I graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University in 2015 and earned my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Georgia in 2020. I was fortunate to be advised by the remarkable academic duo, Professors Ping Ma and Wenxuan Zhong, who lead the Big Data Analytics Lab (BDAL). After joining RUC, I had the pleasure of working with a talented group of students, with whom I co-founded the BDAL-RUC Lab. To date, my students have been awarded the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Student Paper Award twice (a first for institutions in mainland China) and have received the National Scholarship on three occasions.

I am honored to have received the 2023 Junior Researcher Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association (one of five recipients globally) and three Huawei Spark Award for tackling key challenges, with recognition from both RUC's and Huawei's official media channels. I serve as the principal investigator for a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Fund project as well as multiple projects sponsored by Huawei. In recent years, our lab has been dedicated to developing theoretically grounded, fast algorithms for big data, aiming to advance the application of statistical methodologies across a range of industrial and interdisciplinary domains.

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Contact information

• Address: 710 Chondde Xi Building, Haidian, Beijing, China

• Email: chengmeng at ruc dot edu dot cn

Latest News

• (2025-05) Congratulations to Junlie Huang, Xinlai Kang, Qiannan Huang, and others on their paper “Efficient Approximation of Leverage Scores in Two-dimensional Autoregressive Models with Application to Image Anomaly Detection” being accepted by JCGS! This marks the 9th paper from our group published in a Category 1B journal of the Research Institute!

• (2025-05) Cheng Meng, representing alumni ten years after graduation, was invited to attend and speak at a themed symposium hosted by Yong Qiu, the Party Secretary of Tsinghua University. Link This event was also reported by the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University. Link

• (2025-04) Congratulations to Junyi Lin, Junlie Huang and Dunyao Xue for receiving the Travel Award and being selected for the Doctoral Forum at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Youth Statisticians Association of the National Industrial Statistics Teaching and Research Association and the 3rd International Symposium on Statistical Theory and its Applications.Link The award was reported by a well-known academic platform “Gouxiong Hui”.Link

• (2025-3) Congratulations to Cheng Meng for leading students Hao Zheng, Tao Wang, Haoxian Liang, and Mengyu Li to win the Huawei “Challenge Solving” 114th Spark Award. This is the team’s third time receiving this honor！Link Congratulations to Haoxian Liang on Being Interviewed by Mingli College！ My Spark Moments

• (2025-3) Congratulations! The paper “Efficient Variants of Wasserstein Distance in Hyperbolic Space via Space-filling Curve Projection” by Tao Li, Jun Zhu, and others has been accepted by IEEE TNNLS (IF: 10.2)! This is the third 1A-class journal publication from our group at the research institute! Link

• (2024-12) Congratulations! Mengyu Li has been selected for the 2024 China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talent Support Program for Doctoral Students, supported by the Chinese Association for Applied Statistics (CAAS)! This is the inaugural year of the program, with approximately 3,000 students selected. Link

• (2024-11) Congratulations! Qiannan Huang has been awwared the JD Scholarship Nomination. Link

• (2024-11) Congratulations! Qiannan Huang has been awarded the National Scholarship for Master’s Students in the 2024 Student Award Review! This is BDAL Lab’s third National Scholarship, following the 2023 Doctoral National Scholarship awarded to Mengyu Li and the 2021 Master’s National Scholarship awarded to Dianjun Lin.Link

• (2024-10) Congratulations! Mengyu Li was awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 22nd Annual Conference of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.Link

• (2024-9) The BDAL-RUC homepage is officially launched! Website maintenance: Chengshuo Du.