Eric Chi is an Associate Professor in the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are in statistical learning and numerical optimization, and their applications in engineering and the biological sciences.
He received an NSF CAREER award in 2018 and an ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2017. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics since 2016, and has been on the Editorial Board of Statistical Methods in Medical Research since 2011.
He received his PhD in statistics from Rice University in 2011. After his PhD, he completed postdoctoral positions in the Human Genetics department at UCLA and the Digital Signal Processing group at Rice. Before joining UMN in 2025, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
Email: echi [at] umn [dot] edu
