Lujia Bai

I am currently a postdoc researcher at Department of Mathematics, at Ruhr Unversity Bochum in the group of Holger Dette. I obtained my Ph.d. from Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, advised by Weichi Wu . In 2020, I obtained my B.Sc. in the School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

I am broadly interested in data with complex structure and non-stationary dynamics. My current research focuses on non-stationary time series, time-varying network, functional time series and long-range dependence. I speak Chinese, English and German as well as Spanish.

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  • 2024-12: Our new paper is on arxiv http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00118, which is about a portmanteau test for multivariate non-stationary functional time series with an increasing number of lags based on a degenerate U-statistics! In addition, I will give a talk on GPSD on this work in the session of S12 (4) Computational, functional and high-dimensional statistics. See you in Dresden!

  • 2024-11: I have been elected as one of the project leaders of TRR391 as a posdoctoral researcher. --> -->

  • dise Detecting long-range dependence for time-varying linear models
    Lujia Bai*, Weichi Wu
    Bernoulli, accepted
    [arXiv] [Code]

    We consider the problem of testing for long-range dependence in time-varying coefficient regression models, where the covariates and errors are locally stationary, allowing complex temporal dynamics and heteroscedasticity. We develop KPSS, R/S, V/S, and K/S-type statistics based on the nonparametric residuals.

    dise Time-varying correlation network analysis of non-stationary multivariate time series with complex trends
    Lujia Bai*, Weichi Wu
    preprint
    [arXiv]

    This paper proposes a flexible framework for inferring large-scale time-varying and time-lagged correlation networks from multivariate or high-dimensional non-stationary time series with piecewise smooth trends.

    dise Difference-based covariance matrix estimate in time series nonparametric regression with applications to specification tests
    Lujia Bai*, Weichi Wu
    Biometrika, accepted
    [arXiv] [Code]

    We propose a novel difference-based and debiased long-run covariance matrix estimator for functional linear models with time-varying regression coefficients, allowing time series non-stationarity, long-range dependence, state-heteroscedasticity and their mixtures. We apply the new estimator to existing tests, overcoming the notorious non-monotonic power phenomena and improving the performance via the residual free formula.

    dise UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
    Lujia Bai*, Wenliang Zhao*, Yongming Rao, Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu
    NeurIPS 2023
    [arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]

    UniPC is a training-free framework designed for the fast sampling of diffusion models, which consists of a corrector (UniC) and a predictor (UniP) that share a unified analytical form and support arbitrary orders.

    Honors and Awards

  • 2024 Young Researcher Scholarship for Bernoulli-IMS World Congress
  • 2024 ICSA Junior Researcher Award
  • 2024 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award
  • Best Poster Award of 2024 Peking-Tsinghua Joint Statistics Colloqium Forum
  • 2023 The First Prize of Comprehensive Scholarship of Tsinghua University
  • 2022 Comprehensive Scholarship of Tsinghua University
  • 2021 Comprehensive Scholarship of Tsinghua University
  • 2019 Top Ten Female College Students in Shanghai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
  • 2018 China Merchants Bank Scholarship, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
  • 2017 National Scholarship, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
  • Conferences and Workshops

  • Contributed Session on Computational, functional and high-dimensional statistics. 17th German Probability and Statistics Days, March 2025.
  • Contributed Session on Long Memory detection. On Bernoulli-IMS World Congress, August 2024.
  • Substitute talk in the session of change point detection. On 2024 International Conference Frontiers of Data Science, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, July 2024.
  • Invited talk. On ICSA 2024 China Conference, Wuhan, Hubei Province, June 2024.
  • 5-minute talk as a poster award winner. On 2024 Peking-Tsinghua Joint Statistics Colloqium, Beijing, May 2024.
  • Statistical Analysis of Networks, in Coventry, UK, September 2023.
  • Discrete Random Structures, in Lausanne, Swizerland, August 2023.
  • Data Science and Dependence 2023 Conference, in Heidelberg, Germany, July 2023.
  • 16th German Probability and Statistics Days, in Essen, Germany, March 2023.
  • Invited talk. On CMStatistics 2022.
  • Best Paper Award. The 2021 International Workshop on Statistical Theory and Related Fields.
  • Invited talk. On 2021 Xiamen University Symposium on Modern Statistics.
  • Invited talk. On 2021 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in the session structural inference of time series data.
  • Teaching

  • 2024 Winter, Mathematical Foundations on Data Science, Ruhr University Bochum (including replacement lectures, in English/German).
  • 2020 Fall, Elementary Probability Theory, Tsinghua University.
  • 2021 Spring and 2024 Spring, Financial Statistics, Tsinghua University.
  • 2021 Fall, Advanced Mathematical Statistics I, Tsinghua University.
  • 2022 Spring, Applied Time Series Analysis, Tsinghua University.
  • Academic Services

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