Academic Staff

Jian Huang is Chair Professor of Data Science and Analytics in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests include deep learning, generative models, representation learning, statistical analysis leveraging large models, and bioinformatics. He has an extensive publication record across various disciplines such as Statistics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Econometrics. He was designated a highly cited researcher in the field of Mathematics by Clarivate from 2015 to 2019. Furthermore, he was listed among the top 2% of the world's most-cited scientists by Elsevier BV and Stanford University for the years 2022-2023. He serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Professor Huang is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

• Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics, University of Washington