Research areas include statistical machine learning, scientific applications, open-source software & tools, interpretability, data integration/fusion, scientific reproducibility, cardiovascular genomics, precision cancer medicine, and work related to COVID-19. Developed simChef (R package), imodels (Python package), and causalDT (R package).
Research Experience
Former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan Statistics Department; currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS) at the University of Notre Dame.
Education
PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley, advised by Bin Yu; Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan Statistics Department, working with Ji Zhu and Liza Levina.
Background
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, with research interests primarily at the intersection of applied statistics/data science and medicine. Current research focuses on developing interpretable statistical machine learning methods to extract actionable and reliable insights from real-world data, ensuring transparent and responsible use of AI in healthcare, and creating open-source tools and software to facilitate community-wide use and adoption of reliable data science in practice.