Liyan Xie

I am a third year Ph.D. student in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering(ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am very fortunate to be supervised by Professor Yao Xie and Professor George V. Moustakides. Before joining Georgia Tech, I received B.S. degree in statistics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2016.

Contact

• E-Mail: lxie49 [@] gatech [DOT] edu

• Address: Office 425, Main Building, 755 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

Research Interesets

Statistics, convex optimization, sequential change-point detection, and their applications in sensor networks.

News

August 2019, attended the Foundation of Data Science Summer School sponsored by the NSF TRIPODS Institutes at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

May 2019, received the Travel Grant from the ISIT 2019 conference, and will present the paper “Asynchronous multi-sensor change-point detection for seismic tremors”, joint work with George V. Moutakides and Yao Xie.

May 2019, presented a poster “Robust Hypothesis Testing Using Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets” in WuFest and won the best poster award.

February 2019, attended the 14th CSL Student Conference held in UIUC.

Awards

• Travel Grant Award. ISIT 2019.

• Best Poster Award. WuFest 2019.

• Best Poster Award(Honorable Mention). Georgia Statistics Day 2018.

• Best Performance Award, 2017 Statistics Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.