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<h2>Research interests</h2>
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<li> Uncertainty-Aware Human Preference Study (Entity Ranking Estimation and Inference). </li>
<li> Statistical Aspects of AI Safety, Language Models, and Data-Driven Decision-Making (Uncertainty Quantification, Calibration and Policy Optimization). </li>
<li> Causal Inference (Instrumental Variable, Test Negative Design, Cluster Randomized Trial, Matching). </li>
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<h2>Ph.D. Thesis</h2><h2>
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</p><li> <b>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu.</b>
<a href="http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01td96k577b"> High-dimensional Robust Statistical Inference. </a> Princeton University, 2023.
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<h2>Preprints</h2><h2>
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<p> <u>* indicates equal contribution or alphabetical authorship.</u> </p>
<p> <u> The symbol ✉ denotes the senior or corresponding author.</u> </p>
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</p><li> Chris Sebastian, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b>, Jin Jin ✉ <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.26347258v1.full.pdf"> Constructing a Literature-Derived Database for Benchmarking Polygenic Risk Score Construction Methods with Spectral Ranking Inferences. </a>
Submitted, Under Review; <em>medRxiv.</em>
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</p><li> Yangxinyu Xie, Tao Wang, Soham Mallick, Yan Sun, Georgy Noarov, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b>, Tanwi Mallick, Weijie J Su, Edgar Dobriban ✉ <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13935">
Statistical Early Stopping for Reasoning Models </a>
Submitted, Under Review; Arxiv Preprint<em> arXiv:2602.13935.</em>
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</p><li> Yonghoon Lee, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b>, Jiewen Liu, Chan Park, Yunshu Zhang, James M Robins, Eric J Tchetgen Tchetgen ✉ <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15612"> Inference on Nonlinear Counterfactual Functionals under a Multiplicative IV Model.</a>
Submitted, Under Review; Arxiv Preprints <em>arXiv:2507.15612.</em>
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</p><li> Jiewen Liu, Chan Park, Yonghoon Lee, Yunshu Zhang, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b>, James M Robins, Eric J Tchetgen Tchetgen ✉. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09302"> The Multiplicative Instrumental Variable Model.</a>
Submitted, Under Review; Arxiv Preprints <em>arXiv:2507.09302.</em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan* ✉, Jikai Hou* ✉, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉(Alphabetical). <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08814"> Covariate Assisted Entity Ranking with Sparse Intrinsic
Scores.</a> Submitted, Under Revision; Arxiv Preprints <em>arXiv:2407.08814.</em>
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</p><li> Bingkai Wang ✉, Fan Li, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b> ✉ <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01977"> Conformal causal inference for cluster randomized trials: model-robust inference without asymptotic approximations.</a>
Submitted, Under Revision; Arxiv Preprints <em>arXiv:2401.01977.</em>
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</p><li> <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b> ✉, Zhuoran Yang, Jianqing Fan. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11040"> Strategic Decision-Making in the Presence of Information Asymmetry: Provably Efficient RL with Algorithmic Instruments. </a>
Under Revision. <em> </em> <br /> <ul><li>This paper received the <b> ASA Best Student Paper Award </b> at the Business and Economic Statistics Session, 2023.</li>
<li> This paper received the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023.</li>
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<h2>Journal Publications</h2><h2>
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<p> <u>* indicates equal contribution or alphabetical authorship.</u> </p>
<p> <u> The symbol ✉ denotes the senior or corresponding author.</u> </p>
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</p><li> <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu ✉</u></b>, Nicholas P. Jewell ✉. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19778"> Test-Negative Designs with Multiple Testing Sources.</a> Statistics in Medicine, Accepted; Arxiv Preprints <em>arXiv:2504.19778.</em>
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</p><li> <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉, Tom Hongyi Liu, Kendrick Qijun Li, Nicholas P. Jewell, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Dylan S. Small, Xu Shi, Bingkai Wang*✉. <a href="https://www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/abstract/10.1097/ede.0000000000001940~test-negative-designs-with-various-reasons-for-testing"> Test-Negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution.</a>
<em>Epidemiology, accepted, 2026.</em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Weichen Wang*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉. <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/opre.2023.0439"> Spectral Ranking Inferences based on General Multiway Comparisons.</a>
<em> Operations Research (OR), 2025, to appear. </em> <ul>
<li> This paper received the IMS New Researcher Travel Award, 2024.</li>
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</p><li>Edgar Dobriban*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉. <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jrsssb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrsssb/qkaf022/8127060?redirectedFrom=PDF"> SymmPI: Predictive Inference for Data with Group Symmetries.</a>
<em> Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (JRSSB), 2025, to appear.</em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan*, Zhipeng Lou*, Weichen Wang*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2024.2316364"> Ranking Inferences Based on the Top Choice of Multiway Comparisons. </a>
<em> Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2025, 120(549), 237–250. </em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan* ✉, Jikai Hou* ✉, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉. <a href="https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0554.html"> Uncertainty Quantification of MLE for Ranking with Covariates.</a>
<em> Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2024, 25(358), 1-83. </em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan* ✉, Zhipeng Lou*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b>. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2023.2169700">Are Latent Factor Regression and Sparse Regression Adequate?</a>
<em>Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2024, 119(546), 1076-1088.</em>
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan* ✉, Zhipeng Lou*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b>. <a href="https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-statistics/volume-51/issue-5/Robust-high-dimensional-tuning-free-multiple-testing/10.1214/23-AOS2322.short"> Robust High-dimensional Tuning Free Multiple Testing. </a>
<em> Annals of Statistics (AOS), 2023, 51(5), 2093-2115 </em>.
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan* ✉, Yongyi Guo*, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b>. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2022.2128359">Policy Optimization Using Semiparametric Models for Dynamic Pricing.</a>
<em>Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2023, 119(545), 552–564</em> .
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</p><li> Jianqing Fan*, Zhuoran Yang* ✉, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b> ✉. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2022.2044824">Understanding Implicit Regularization in Over-Parameterized Single Index Model.</a>
<em>Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 2023, 118(544), 2315-2328 </em>.
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</p><li> Lu Deng* ✉, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu*</u></b>, Zhengjun Zhang*. <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/6/665">Statistical Learning of the Worst Regional Smog Extremes with Dynamic Conditional Modeling.</a>
<em>Atmosphere 2020, 11(6), 665 </em>.
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<h2>Conference Publications</h2><h2>
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</p><li> Georgy Noarov*, Soham Mallick*, Tao Wang*, Sunay Joshi, Yan Sun, Yangxinyu Xie, <b><u>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</u></b>, Edgar Dobriban ✉. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19371"> Foundations of Top-k Decoding For Language Models.</a>
<em>Neurips 2025, Accepted.</em>
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</p><li> Xinmeng Huang* ✉, Shuo Li* ✉, <b>Mengxin(Maxine) Yu</b>, Matteo Sesia, Hamed Hassani, Insup Lee, Osbert Bastani, Edgar Dobriban ✉. <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.18.pdf"> Uncertainty in Language Models: Assessment through Rank-Calibration. </a>
<em> Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024. </em>
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</p></li><li> Ziwei Zhu, Xudong Li, Mengdi Wang, Anru Zhang.
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00113">Learning Markov models via low-rank optimization.</a>
<em>Operations Research, to appear</em>.
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</p></li><li> Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma, Kaizheng Wang, Ziwei Zhu* (2021).
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/799748">Modern data modeling: Cross-fertilization of the two cultures.</a>
<em>Observational Studies, 7, 65-76</em>.
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</p></li><li> Jianqing Fan, Weichen Wang, Ziwei Zhu* (2021).
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08315"> A shrinkage principle for heavy-tailed data: high-dimensional robust low-rank matrix recovery.</a>
<em>The Annals of Statistics, 49, 1239-1266</em>.
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</p></li><li> Jianqing Fan, Kaizheng Wang, Yiqiao Zhong, Ziwei Zhu* (2021).
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/20-STS785">Robust high dimensional factor models with applications to statistical machine learning.</a>
<em>Statistical Science, 36, 303-327</em>.
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</p></li><li> Ziwei Zhu, Wenjing Zhou (2021). <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/zhu21c/zhu21c.pdf">Taming heavy-tailed features by shrinkage.</a>
<em>International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)</em>.
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</p><li>Jianqing Fan, Dong Wang, Kaizheng Wang, Ziwei Zhu* (2019).
<a href="https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1572487381"> Distributed estimation of principal eigenspaces. </a>
<em>The Annals of Statistics, 47, 3009-3031</em>.
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</p></li><li> Jianqing Fan, Wenyan Gong, Ziwei Zhu* (2019).
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304407619300818"> Generalized high-dimensional trace regression with nuclear norm regularization.</a>
<em> Journal of Econometrics, 212, 177-202</em>.
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</p></li><li> Jianqing Fan, Han Liu, Weichen Wang, Ziwei Zhu* (2018).
<a href="https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejs/1543979030"> Heterogeneity adjustment with applications to graphical model inference.</a>
<em> Electronic Journal of Statistics, 12, 3908-3952</em>.
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</p></li><li>Jianqing Fan, Qiang Sun, Wenxin Zhou, Ziwei Zhu* (2018).
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08122"> Principal component analysis for big data. </a>
<em>Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online</em>.
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</p></li><li>Heather Battey, Jianqing Fan, Han Liu, Junwei Lu, Ziwei Zhu* (2018).
<a href="https://www.e-publications.org/ims/submission/AOS/user/submissionFile/23940?confirm=d2566110"> Distributed testing and estimation under sparse high dimensional models.</a>
<em>The Annals of Statistics, 46, 1352-1382</em>.
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<p> *: Alphabetical authorship </p>
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