Biography
I am currently Assistant Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. Starting July 2025, I will be Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. My research interests include Bayesian statistics, 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 DOT ju AT dartmouth DOT edu'.
In my blog phylliswithdata.com, I thrive to communicate statistical ideas and research in data privacy to a broad audience. I am on the organizing team of the Online Monte Carlo Seminar. Follow us on YouTube.
Interests
- Bayesian statistics
- 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
- I am joining the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College in July 2025. I am teaching MATH 20 (Probability) in Fall'25 and MATH 146 (Current topics in applied math, on data privacy and Bayesian statistics) in Winter'26.
- New manuscript SOMA: a novel sampler for exchangeable variables with Yifei Xiong is on arxiv.
- Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains with Qian Qin and Guanyang Wang has been accepted by the Annals of Statistics.
- Simulation-based Bayesian inference from privacy-protected data with Yifei Xiong and Sanguo Zhang accepted by the Transactions of Machine Learning Research..
Recent Publications
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(2025).
SOMA: a novel sampler for exchangeable variables.
Arxiv preprint.
(2025).
Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains.
AoS.
(2024).
SNP-Slice: A Bayesian nonparametric framework to resolve SNP haplotypes in mixed infections.
Bioinformatics.
Recent & Upcoming Talks
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Awards
NIH-NIAID: Systems biology to predict progression and treatment response in NTM pulmonary infections.
Department of Statistics Undergraduate Advising Award
2023 Showalter Trust Young Investigator Award
2022 Biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design (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 of Mathematics (tenure-track)
Dartmouth College, Department of Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Statistics (tenure-track)
Purdue University, Department of Statistics
Visiting Ph.D. Student
University of Oxford
Hosted by Professor Arnaud Doucet.