Lan Gao

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Joined October 2025

Names

Lan Gao (Preferred)

Emails

****@utk.edu (Confirmed)
,
****@link.cuhk.edu.hk (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (utk.edu)
2022 – Present
 
Postdoc
Data Science and Operations Department, University of Southern California (usc.edu)
2019 – 2022
 
PhD student
Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (cuhk.edu.hk)
2015 – 2019
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
2019 – 2022
 
Postdoc Advisor
2019 – 2022
 
PhD Advisor
2015 – 2019
 

Expertise

Asymptotic theory
Present
 
Reinforcement learning
Present
 
Variable Selection
Present