Research Areas:
High Dimensional Statistics, Large-scale Multiple Testing, Nonparametric Function Estimation, Functional Data Analysis, Inference for Discrete Distributions, Statistical Decision Theory, and Applications to Compressed Sensing, Chemical Identification, Medical Imaging and Genomics.

Prof. Tony Cai received his PhD from Cornell University in 1996. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 and is currently the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics and Data Science. He was also named the Medallion Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2009.

Prof. Cai’s research interests include high-dimensional inference, large-scale multiple testing, nonparametric function estimation, functional data analysis, inference for discrete distributions, and statistical decision theory, with applications to compressed sensing, chemical identification, medical imaging and microarray data analysis. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Frontiers of Statistics (book series). He was also the editor of The Annals of Statistics in 2010-2012.

Prof. Cai received the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award in 2008, the Noether Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Statistical Association in 2023 and the Frontiers of Science Award at the 2023 International Congress of Basic Science. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2006, the President of International Chinese Statistical Association in 2016, and a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024.