Langtian Ma

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
— Bertrand Russell

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I’m a second-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Kris Sankaran. Before coming to Madison, I received my B.Sc with honors in Statistics at Southern University of Science and Technology.

I have board interests in statistics, mathematics, bioinformatics and computer science. My current research focuses on deep generative modeling and simulation for single-cell data.

I’m also a philosophy enthusiast with particular interests in philosophy of science and analytic philosophy. It is the philosophical significance of statistics that attracts me to the study of statistics.