Lek-Heng is a professor in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative and the Department of Statistics. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, he was a Morrey assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University. Lek-Heng began teaching a course on unsupervised learning, FINM 33180, in the MSFM Program in 2015.