I am a second year Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of British Columbia. My research interests are Bayesian statistics and machine learning, and am currently working with Dr. Trevor Campbell from UBC’s Department of Statistics on developing fast and accurate large-scale Bayesian inference methods using data summarization techniques.

Apart from academics, I enjoy playing tennis, and work actively as a certified official with Tennis Canada.

News

• [January, 2024] Our paper Coreset Markov chain Monte Carlo has been accepted to AISTATS 2024.
• [April, 2023] Our paper MixFlows: principled variational inference via mixed flows has been accepted to ICML 2023.
• [September, 2022] Our paper Bayesian inference via sparse Hamiltonian flows has been accepted to NeurIPS 2022.
• [March, 2022] I will be starting my Ph.D. at UBC in September.
• [Septempber, 2020] Received the 2019 Nash Medal.
• [Feburay, 2020] Received an Honourable Mention of the 2020 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.
• [July, 2019] Received the 2019 Dr John & Barbara Petkau Scholarship.

Publications

• Coreset Markov chain Monte Carlo [arXiv]
  Naitong Chen, Trevor Campbell
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2024
• MixFlows: principled variational inference via mixed flows [arXiv]
  Zuheng Xu, Naitong Chen, Trevor Campbell
  International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023
• Bayesian inference via sparse Hamiltonian flows [NeurIPS] [arXiv] [DOI]
  Naitong Chen, Zuheng Xu, Trevor Campbell
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of British Columbia, 2022-Present
• M.Sc. in Statistics, University of British Columbia, 2020-2022
• B.Sc. in Statistics, University of British Columbia, 2015-2020

Work

• Software Developer Co-op, SAP Vancouver, 2018

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, STAT 305, University of British Columbia, 2024
  Introduction to Statistical Inference
• Teaching Assistant, STAT 406, University of British Columbia, 2022-2023
  Methods for Statistical Learning
• Teaching Assistant, STAT 200, University of British Columbia, 2018-2019, 2023
  Elementary Statistics for Applications