Yudong Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick

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yudong.chen@warwick.ac.uk

Room 4.11, Mathematical Sciences Building

Department of Statistics

University of Warwick

Coventry, CV4 7AL

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. From 2021 to 2023, I was a postdoctoral researcher, hosted by Tengyao Wang, and then an LSE Fellow from 2023 to 2024 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

I completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Richard J. Samworth and Tengyao Wang, with the thesis title High-dimensional Online Changepoint Detection. My research interests include changepoint detection, high-dimensional statistics, robust statistics, online algorithms, machine learning, spatial econometrics and large language models.

Interests

  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Changepoint detection
  • Robust statistics
  • Online algorithms
  • Machine learning
  • Spatial econometrics
  • Large language models

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    Online change point detection under heavy-tailedness and contamination
    Edwin Yiu Nam Tang, Yudong Chen, Mengchu Li, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint, arXiv:2606.09737, 2026
    arXiv PDF
  2. ICML (spotlight)
    Navigating solution spaces in large language models through controlled embedding exploration
    Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Hanqi Yan, and 3 more authors
    In The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
    PDF
  3. JBES
    Inference on dynamic spatial autoregressive models with change point detection
    Zetai Cen, Yudong Chen, and Clifford Lam
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2025
    DOI PDF
  4. JRSSB
    High-dimensional, multiscale online changepoint detection
    Yudong Chen, Tengyao Wang, and Richard J. Samworth
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2022
    PDF