I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. My advisor is Professor Hyunseung Kang. Prior to coming to Madison, I received B.S. in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Nankai University in China.

My research interests include transportability/generalizability, sensitivity analysis, causal inference, and robust statistics. [Research page] [Google Scholar]

I will be on the 2025-2026 academic job market for postdoc positions.

News

September 2, 2023 at Madison, WI.
September 2, 2023 at Madison, WI.

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
(Expected) 2026
M.S. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2021
B.S. in Statistics, Nankai University
2020

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant at UW–Madison

STAT 301: Introduction to Statistics
Introductory course for undergraduate students with a non-statistics major.
Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2024
STAT 849: Theory and Application of Regression and ANOVA I
Core course for MS/PhD students.
Fall 2023
STAT 575: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data
Elective course for undergraduate/graduate students.
Spring 2024
STAT 775: Bayesian Statistics (Grader)
Elective course for graduate students.
Spring 2024

Honors and Awards

NESS Student Research Award
Awarded by New England Statistics Symposium (NESS)
2025
IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award
Awarded by Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
2025
Summer Research Fellowship
Awarded by Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2025
ASA Best Student Paper Award
Awarded by Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Section, American Statistical Association [ASA Announcement]
2025
Outstanding Performance as a Teaching Assistant for Graduate Courses
Awarded by Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison [Department News]
2023–2024
SCI Travel Scholarship
Awarded by Society for Causal Inference (SCI)
2024

Contact

Email: xinran (dot) miao (at) wisc (dot) edu

Office: 1335O Medical Sciences Center, Madison, WI, 53706