Xinyan Wang

xwang2587@wisc.edu.

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5606 Morgridge Hall, 1205 University Avenue

Madison, WI 53706

I am Xinyan Wang, a 3rd year PhD student in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Professor Jun Shao. I received my BS in Statistics from East China Normal University in 2022 and MS in Statistics from UW–Madison in 2023.

In addition, I collaborate with Professor Chaowei Xiao.

Research interests: Statistical inference; Trustworthy AI.

news

Feb 2026 ReasoningBomb is now on arXiv. Check out our website.
Sep 2024 Passed my Qualifying Exam.

selected publications

2026

  1. arXiv
    ReasoningBomb: A Stealthy Denial-of-Service Attack by Inducing Pathologically Long Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models
    Xiaogeng Liu, Xinyan Wang, Yechao Zhang, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00154, 2026

2023

  1. STARF
    MLE with datasets from populations having shared parameters
    Jun Shao, and Xinyan Wang
    Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2023