Chengchun Shi

About

(i), I am an associate professor of data science at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

(ii) Pior to (i), I was an assistant professor of data science at LSE.

(iii) Prior to (ii), I was a Ph.D. student in Statistics at North Carolina State University (NCSU). I work with Dr. Wenbin Lu and Dr. Rui Song.

(iv) Prior to (iii), I obtained a B.S. in Statistics from Zhejiang University in July 2014.

(v) Prior to (iv), I graduated from Ningbo Xiaoshi High School in July 2010.

I was honoured to receive the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Tweedie Award and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Research Prize.

I am looking for PhD students interested in reinforcement learning; see my lecture slides on RL, our tutorial (Youtube, Bilibili) on RL for two-sided marketplaces, my slides on off-policy evaluation and our review paper.

My email c.shi7@lse.ac.uk. My GitHub.

Research

My research is motivated from the applications in precision medicine (a simulated STARD data example), mobile health (some simulated environments for Diabetes and Intern Health), ridesharing (simulated environments for Order Dispatch and Spatio-temporal Policy Evaluation; see also my talk), neuroscience and video-sharing platforms (see our KDD paper for details about our proposal successfully deployed in a widely used mobile app with millions of daily active users).

Some of my recent talks and slides on statistical inference, RL, causal inference, data integration, time series and experimental design:

A summary of my past/current research: Statistical Methods in Reinforcement Learning (partly supported by EPSRC)

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