Nianqiao "Phyllis" Ju

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. I am on the organizing team of the Online Monte Carlo Seminar.

Interests

  • Computational statistics & data augmentation
  • Data privacy
  • Computational biology

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021

    Harvard University

  • B.A. in Mathematics & Physics, 2016

    Wellesley College

News

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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Statistical methods to learn mixed infections

Data Augmentation MCMC for Bayesian Inference from Privatized Data

Awards

NIH-NIAID: Systems biology to predict progression and treatment response in NTM pulmonary infections.

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

Aug 2022 – Present
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Ph.D. Student

University of Oxford

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020
Hosted by Professor Arnaud Doucet.
 
 
 
 
 

Quantitative Trading Intern

Tower Research Capital

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 New York, NY
 
 
 
 
 

Data Science Intern

Etsy Inc.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 Brooklyn, NY