Several papers accepted for publication in journals like Biometrika, Journal of Royal Statistical Society (JRSS-C), and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS); recipient of the 2022 Leo Breiman Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS); elected as Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Research Experience
Serving as the Interim Chair of UW Biostatistics during the 2025-26 academic year; involved in multiple research projects such as GLM Inference with AI-Generated Synthetic Data, Integer Programming for Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs From Non-Identifiable Gaussian Models, etc.
Background
Professor of Biostatistics & Statistics, Interim Chair of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Research interests include semi-supervised learning, GLM inference with AI-generated synthetic data, and learning directed acyclic graphs from non-identifiable Gaussian models.
Miscellany
Advised students Michael Hellstern, Keshav Motwani, and Zichun (Dwight) Xu won best paper awards in 2025 ASA competitions; student Si Cheng successfully defended her PhD dissertation; former students Xiudi Li and Lu Xia accepted Assistant Professor positions at UC Berkeley Biostatistics and Michigan State University's Department of Statistics and Probability, respectively.