Selected Talks

A selection of invited talks on my recent works.

Optimal Detection for Language Watermarks with Pseudorandom Collision Slides

Invited talk · 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM 2026)

What Can Statistics Offer to Language Models: Watermarking and Evaluation Slides

Job talk · Rutgers University

Evaluating the Unseen Capabilities: How Much Do LLMs Actually Know? Slides

Research talk

Robust Watermark Detection and Efficient Proportion Estimation for Human-Edited Watermarked Text Slides

Invited talk · 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium

Statistical Inference in Large Language Models: Language Watermarking, Motivation, Methods & Advances Slides

Short course · 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium

Complete Asymptotic Analysis for Projected Stochastic Approximation and Debiased Variants Slides

Conference talk · Allerton 2023

Privacy Amplification Strategies towards Better Privacy-Utility Trade-off Slides

PhD forum · Machine Learning and Data Science PhD Forum (No. 48), Peking University

On the Convergence of FedAvg on Non-IID Data Slides

Extended research talk · ICLR 2020 Oral