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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 two 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
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!
Congratulations! Qiannan Huang has been awwared the JD Scholarship Nomination.
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
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.
Congratulations! Mengyu Li was awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 22nd Annual Conference of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.Link