Zetai Cen

Zetai Cen is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, affiliated with the DASS programme. His research focuses on high-dimensional time series analysis, including imputation, testing Kronecker product structures in tensor factor models, main effect factor models, and spatial autoregressive models. He obtained his PhD in Statistics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in June 2025, supervised by Prof. Clifford Lam and Prof. Wicher Bergsma. Prior to this, he completed his BSc and MSc in Statistics at LSE in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

His research interests encompass tensor data, factor modeling, change point detection, spatiotemporal modeling, and high-dimensional statistical methodologies. His work bridges theoretical advancements in statistical learning with practical applications in complex data structures.