Rong is a Postdoc Research fellow in Statistical Modelling for Prediction based in the Department of Economics, within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her duties include developing and maintaining code/model associated with the statistical estimation and inference techniques relevant to the ESRC project.
Rong’s research focused primarily on nonlinear and (non- or semi-) parametric time series modelling and forecasting for count data in high dimension. Her research interests include also sptio-temporal modelling with challenges of inference in high dimension.
Rong joined the Department of Economics in 2023. Prior to that, Rong worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow in the Business School at University of Edinburgh. Rong obtained her PhD in Statistics and BSc in Maths with Actuarial Science in Mathematical Science at University of Southampton.