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Tony Cai
Dorothy Silberberg Professor; Professor of Statistics


Education

PhD, Cornell University, 1996

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

The 2008 COPSS Presidents' Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies; Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2000-present (named Dorothy Silberberg Professor, 2007). Previous appointment: Purdue University

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Publications
Tony Cai, Yuan, M. (2011), Optimal Estimation of the Mean Function Based on Discretely Sampled Functional Data: Phase Transition, Annals of Statistics
Tony Cai, Harrison H. Zhou (2011), Minimax Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices Under l1 Norm, Statistica Sinica
Tony Cai (2011), Minimax and Adaptive Inference in Nonparametric Function Estimation, Statistica Sinica
Lie Wang, Lawrence D. Brown, Tony Cai (2011), A Difference Based Approach to the Semiparametric Partial Linear Model, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 5, 619-641
Tony Cai, Tiefeng Jiang (2011), Limiting Laws of Coherence of Random Matrices with Applications to Testing Covariance Structure and Construction of Compressed Sensing Matrices, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 39, 1496-1525

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Honors And Awards
Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009
The COPSS Presidents' Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 2008
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006

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Cai Tony
Tony Cai
 469 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-8224
tcai@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
High dimensional inference, functional data analysis, large-scale multiple testing, nonparametric function estimation, wavelet methodology and applications, statistical decision theory