Dr Mengchu Li BSc MASt PhD

• PhD in Statistics, University of Warwick, 2023.
• MASt in Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, 2019.
• BSc in Mathematics and Economics, Durham University, 2018.

Dr Mengchu Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. From February 2023 to Septemeber 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. He obtained his PhD in Statistics at the University of Warwick in 2023.

Mengchu is interested in working with motivated students who share any of his research interests. Please get in touch via email.

Research themes

• Change point analysis
• High-dimensional statistics
• Robust statistics
• Differential privacy

Research activity

Mengchu's research so far has been at the intersection of three areas: change point analysis, robust statistics and differential privacy, and he has mainly focused on developing statistical theories and methodologies. Mengchu studies problems under the minimax framework, which involves deriving information-theoretic lower bounds to understand the fundamental difficulty of the problems and developing specific algorithms that attain minimax optimality. In particular, his research unveils the fundamental costs of data contamination and privacy constraints in a variety of statistical problems, with a special focus on change point analysis.