{"id":1630,"date":"2018-07-18T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescoscmsqa.smca.ucf.edu\/statistics\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1630"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:13:08","slug":"mengyu-xu","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/person\/mengyu-xu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mengyu Xu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mengyu Xu received the Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Statistics from Renmin University of China, Beijing , China in 2010. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Statistics in the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA in 2012 and 2016.\u00a0Her research interests include the covariance matrix estimation and time-varying network recovery from high-dimensional time series and the distribution theory of quadratic forms and high-dimensional hypotheses test.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mt-4\">Appointment<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/bookwithme\/user\/2c12d601b5cb41b08a50e140ada1c751%40ucf.edu\/meetingtype\/kNcDbYHTLE-ha0HhdH6fSQ2?anonymous&amp;ismsaljsauthenabled\">Book time with Mengyu Xu: 20 minutes meeting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mengyu Xu received the Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Statistics from Renmin University of China, Beijing , China in 2010. 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