Nianqiao "Phyllis" Ju
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Purdue University
Biography
I am Assistant Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue in 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Harvard University. My research interests include Monte Carlo methods, differential privacy, and applied statistics.
My Chinese name is 鞠念桥 and you can also call me Phyllis. You can contact me at `nianqiao AT purdue DOT edu'.
I maintain a blog at phylliswithdata.com.
Interests
- Computational statistics & data augmentation
- Data privacy
- Computational biology
Education
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Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021
Harvard University
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B.A. in Mathematics & Physics, 2016
Wellesley College
News
- New paper Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains with Qian Qin and Guanyang Wang is on Arxiv.
- New paper Conditional Density Estimations from Privacy-Protected Data with Yifei Xiong and Sanguo Zhang is on arxiv.
- Our paper SNP-Slice: A Bayesian nonparametric framework to resolve SNP haplotypes in mixed infections with Jiawei Liu and Qixin is on Biorxiv.
- I am teaching Stat/Math 416: Probability in Fall 2023.
- Qixin He and I received the 2023 Showalter Trust Research Award.
- I am teaching Stat 695: Unsupervised Learning in Spring 2023.
- Our paper Data Augmentation MCMC for Bayesian Inference from Privatized Data with Jordan A. Awan, Ruobin Gong, and Vinayak A. Rao is accepted to NeurIPS 2022.
Recent Publications
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(2023).
Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains.
Arxiv preprint.
(2023).
Conditional Density Estimations from Privacy-Protected Data.
Arxiv preprint.
(2023).
SNP-Slice: A Bayesian nonparametric framework to resolve SNP haplotypes in mixed infections.
Biorxiv preprint.
(2022).
Data Augmentation MCMC for Bayesian Inference from Privatized Data.
NeurIPS 2022.
Recent & Upcoming Talks
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Awards
2023 Showalter Trust Research Award
2022 Biostatistics, epidemiology, and research degin (BERD) pilot program
NSF Travel Grant for WSDM'19
Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Awarded to teaching assistants who receive student evaluations higher than 4.5 out of 5 points. Won 3 times, in fall 2018, spring 2019, and fall 2020.
Experience
Assistant Professor
Purdue University, Department of Statistics
Visiting Ph.D. Student
University of Oxford
Hosted by Professor Arnaud Doucet.