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Academic Achievements
COPSS Emerging Leader Award (2024)
IMS Tweedie Award (2022)
ASA Gottfried E. Noether Junior Award (2021)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
AMIA Data Science Outstanding Paper Award (2023)
Named Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor at Duke
Former PhD students Yuetian Luo (Rutgers) and Yuchen Zhou (UIUC) have secured tenure-track faculty positions
Paper 'Why Do Transformers Fail to Forecast Time Series In-Context?' selected as oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025 workshop (3 out of 68 submissions)
Background
Tenured faculty with joint appointments in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Department of Computer Science at Duke University
Former Assistant Professor of Statistics at UW-Madison
Research interests include tensor learning, generative models, high-dimensional statistics, electronic health records, healthcare, and microbiome studies
Serves as Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke
Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics, JASA (Applications & Case Studies), JASA (Theory & Methodology), Statistica Sinica, and Statistics and Its Interface