About me
He is a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Department of Quantitative Economics and Business Statistics at Beihang University. Before joining Beihang, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, where he worked on time series forecasting and causal inference under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojie Mao. His postdoctoral research was supported by the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program.
He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of Manchester under the supervision of Dr. Jingsong Yuan. He welcomes opportunities for collaboration and academic discussion in statistical time series forecasting and causal inference. Please feel free to contact him at xixili0720@gmail.com.
Recent News
- Jul 2026 — Joined Beihang University as a tenure-track Associate Professor.
- Jun 2026 — Completed my postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University.
- Jul 2024 — Excited to start a new journey as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University.
- Jun 2024 — Honored to be selected for the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program (acceptance rate: 1/28).
- Mar 2024 — Completed Ph.D. studies at The University of Manchester.
- Jul 2023 — Recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (awarded to 600 outstanding young talents worldwide).
- Sep 2019 — Recipient of the Dean’s Doctoral Scholarship Award at The University of Manchester.
Research Interests
- Statistical time series forecasting
- Forecast combination
- Causal inference
- Statistical machine learning
- Data-driven decision making
Education
Sep 2019 — Jan 2024 Ph.D. in Statistics, The University of Manchester, UK Sep 2016 — Jul 2019 M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering, Beihang University, China Sep 2013 — Jul 2016 B.Ec. in Applied Mathematics, Beihang University, China Sep 2012 — Jul 2016 B.Ec. in Information Management and Information Systems, Beihang University, China
Research Collaborators
- Prof. James W. Taylor, University of Oxford
- Prof. Xiaojie Mao, Tsinghua University
- Dr. Jingsong Yuan, The University of Manchester
- Prof. Xiaochun Meng, University of Bath
- Prof. Fotios Petropoulos, University of Bath
- Prof. Yanfei Kang, Beihang University
- Prof. Feng Li, Peking University
