Wenguang Sun

Center for Data Science

Zhejiang University

866 Yuhangtang Rd

Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China

I am Qiushi Chair Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Data Science at Zhejiang University (ZJU, 2022-present). Before coming to ZJU, I was a faculty member in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations (the Statistics group) in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (Professor 2021-2022, Associate Professor with tenure 2015-2021, Assistant Professor 2011-2015) in Los Angeles, California. Before going to USC, I was assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the North Carolina State University (2008-2011), Raleigh, North Carolina. I was lucky to work under the supervision of Professor T. Tony Cai to complete my PhD (2003-2008) at the University of Pennsylvania. I obtained my BS degree (1999-2003) at Peking University, China.

My research interests include large-scale multiple testing, selective inference, empirical Bayes methods, conformal inference, transfer learning and statistical decision theory.

You are welcome to visit our center at ZJU in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is a scenic and romantic city whose rich history and astounding beauty have been preserved for centuries. This historical and splendid city has been loved and praised in all ages (continuously for over a thousand years!) by famous poets, writers and travelers.

selected publications

JASA

False discovery rate control for structured multiple testing: Asymmetric rules and conformal Q-values

Zhao, Zinan, and Sun, Wenguang

Journal of the American Statistical Association 2025
AOAS

Ranking and Selection in Large-Scale Inference of Heteroscedastic Units

Gang, Bowen, Fu, Luella, James, Gareth, and Sun, Wenguang

Annals of Applied Statistics 2025

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JRSSB

Integrative conformal p-values for powerful out-of-distribution testing with labeled outliers

Liang, Ziyi, Sesia, Matteo, and Sun, Wenguang

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 2024

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Preprint

Conformalized Multiple Testing under Unknown Null Distribution with Symmetric Errors

Tian, Yang, Zhao, Zinan, and Sun, Wenguang

Preprint 2024

JASA

False Discovery Rate Control Under General Dependence By Symmetrized Data Aggregation

Du, Lilun, Guo, Xu, Sun, Wenguang, and Zou, Changliang

Journal of the American Statistical Association 2023

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  author = {Du, Lilun and Guo, Xu and Sun, Wenguang and Zou, Changliang},
  title = {False Discovery Rate Control Under General Dependence By Symmetrized Data Aggregation},
  journal = {Journal of the American Statistical Association},
  volume = {118},
  pages = {607--621},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
  doi = {10.1080/01621459.2021.1945459},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2021.1945459},
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Preprint
A Burden Shared is a Burden Halved: A Fairness-Adjusted Approach to Classification

Rava, Bradley, Sun, Wenguang, James, Gareth M., and Tong, Xin

Technical Report 2022

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@article{Rava2022burden, title = {A Burden Shared is a Burden Halved: A Fairness-Adjusted Approach to Classification}, author = {Rava, Bradley and Sun, Wenguang and James, Gareth M. and Tong, Xin}, year = {2022}, eprint = {2110.05720}, archiveprefix = {Preprint}, primaryclass = {stat.ME}, html = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05720}, bibtex_show = {true}, selected = {true}, abbr = {Preprint}, journal = {Technical Report}, pdf = {FASI.pdf} }
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Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation On Heterogeneous Data

Banerjee, Trambak, Fu, Luella, James, Gareth M., and Sun, Wenguang

Technical Report 2021

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@article{Banetal21-NEST, title = {Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation On Heterogeneous Data}, author = {Banerjee, Trambak and Fu, Luella and James, Gareth M. and Sun, Wenguang}, year = {2021}, abbr = {Preprint}, bibtex_show = {true}, pdf = {NEST.pdf}, journal = {Technical Report}, selected = {true}, html = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12586} }

JRSSB

Covariate-assisted ranking and screening for large-scale two-sample inference (with discussion)

Cai, T Tony, Sun, Wenguang, and Wang, Weinan

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 2019

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  title = {Covariate-assisted ranking and screening for large-scale two-sample inference (with discussion)},
  author = {Cai, T Tony and Sun, Wenguang and Wang, Weinan},
  journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)},
  volume = {87},
  pages = {187--217},
  year = {2019},
  abbr = {JRSSB},
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  html = {https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rssb.12304},
  selected = {true},
  pdf = {CARS.pdf}
}