Zehang Richard Li

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of California Santa Cruz

Email: lizehang (at) ucsc.edu
Google Scholar: Zehang Richard Li
Github: @richardli
Twitter: @z_richard_li

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I grew up in Xuzhou, China. After high school, I attended college in the beautiful and mountainous Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I learned a lot of statistics, some finance, limited Cantonese, and worked with some wonderful mentors. Somewhat unusually, I also spent a summer selling hot dogs, corns, dippin dots, and making gigantic cotton candies at Schlitterbahn waterpark in New Braunfels, Texas. I spent a summer with the microeconomics group at Microsoft Research as a research intern. Unbelievably, we won the 2016 Microsoft summer basketball league championship despite my presence on the team.

When I'm not commuting down Highway 17 to campus, my free time is mostly split between local farmers markets and keeping our two cats happy. I was a fan of the Houston Rockets and Seattle Seahawks and am proudly a Golden State Warriors fan nowadays but still on the hunt for a football team to root for.