Lucy Gao, University of British Columbia

Research

experiment design hypothesis testing machine learning post-selection inference selective inference space-filling design statistical learning

Latest funding

Learning subgroups from data: selective inference and applications
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$72,000

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Learning subgroups from data: selective inference and applications

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Gao, Lucy

Keywords: statistical learning; machine learning; hypothesis testing; selective inference; post-selection inference; experiment design; space-filling design

$72,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: experiment design Dear Professor Gao, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on experiment design connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Learning subgroups from data: selective inference and applications" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]