Xinran Miao 苗欣然

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.

News

June 2025:I will be presenting our work "Transfer Learning Between U.S. Presidential Elections" at NESS.
May 2025:I passed the preliminary exam and become a PhD candidate. Many thanks to my advisor Prof. Hyunseung Kang, as well as Prof. Guanhua Chen, Prof. Melody Huang, Prof. Edward Kennedy and Prof. Qingyuan Zhao who kindly served in my committe and provided valuable feedback!
May 2025:I presented our ongoing work "SLOPE And Its Role In Design For Generalization" at ACIC.
April 2025:I'm honored to receive Summer Research Fellowship from our department and IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award from Institute of Machematical Statistics (IMS).
February 2025:I presented our work "Transfer Learning Between U.S. Presidential Elections" at MEAD.
January 2025:Our work "Transfer Learning Between U.S. Presidential Elections" received ASA Student Paper Award from the SLDS session. I will present this work at JSM 2025.
June 2024:I'm honored to receive the teaching award from our department. [Department News]

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 Assistant at UW-Madison

STAT 775: Bayesian Statistics. Spring 2024 (Grader)
STAT 575: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data. Spring 2024
STAT 849: Theory and Application of Regression and Analysis of Variance I. Fall 2023
STAT 301: Introduction to Statistics. Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2024

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
Best Student Paper Award, awarded by Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Section, American Statistical Associations, 2025 [ASA Announcement]
Outstanding Performance as a Teaching Assistant for Graduate Courses, awarded by Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-2024 [Department News]
SCI Travel Scholarship, awarded by Socienty for Causal Inference (SCI), 2024

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

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