- Medical knowledge extraction from co-occurrence pattern in EHR and ICD code translation between Partners HealthCare and Veterans Health Administration: spherical data corrupted by mismatch
- Estimation of natural indirect effect robust to unmeasured confounding and measurement error in the mediator
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Data Science Initiative, working with Tianxi Cai and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
- Co-leader of the Causal Inference Core of the FDA’s Sentinel Initiative Innovation Center, developing innovative statistical methods to monitor the safety of FDA-regulated medical products and exploring novel ways to utilize information from distributed EHR data partners
Education
- Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Washington, Advisors: Andrea Cook and Patrick Heagerty
- B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Minor in English), Chu Kochen Honors College of Zhejiang University, China
Background
Research interests include developing statistical methods for administrative healthcare data such as electronic health records (EHR) and claims data. Additionally, focuses on developing scalable and automated pipelines for curation and harmonization of EHR data across healthcare systems, and causal inference methods to harness the full potential of EHR data to address comparative effectiveness and safety questions.