University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Statistics
2023–2028 (expected)
Model-Agnostic Feature Selection via LOCO-Guided Adaptive Minipatch Sampling
Xuhui Liu and Lili Zheng
Preprint, 2026.
About
I am a fourth-year PhD student in Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am advised by Professor Lili Zheng. My research interests are interpretable machine learning and high-dimensional feature selection.
Before joining UIUC, I received my B.S. in Statistics from the University of California San Diego, where I was advised by Professor Zhiting Hu.
Research
Education
University of California San Diego
B.S. in Statistics
2019–2023
Experience
Quantitative Research Intern
Gaowei Asset Management · Shanghai, China
May–August 2026
Teaching
STAT 400 — Statistics and Probability I
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2026
STAT 425 — Statistical Modeling I
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2026
STAT 448 — Advanced Data Analysis
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2025
STAT 433 — Stochastic Process
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2024
STAT 410 — Statistics and Probability II
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2023