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
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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 jointly organizing the Online Monte Carlo Seminar. Also check out our YouTube Channel.
- New R01 grant Systems biology to predict progression and treatment response in NTM pulmonary infections from NIH-NIAID. This is a sub-award from Mayo Clinic.
- New manuscript Statistical Inference for Privatized Data with Unknown Sample Size with Jordan Awan and Andres F. Barrientos on Arxiv.
- 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 published on Bioinformatics.
- I am teaching Stat/Math 416: Probability in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
Recent Publications
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(2024).
SNP-Slice: A Bayesian nonparametric framework to resolve SNP haplotypes in mixed infections.
Bioinformatics.
(2024).
Statistical Inference for Privatized Data with Unknown Sample Size.
Arxiv preprint.
(2023).
Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains.
Arxiv preprint.
(2023).
Conditional Density Estimations from Privacy-Protected Data.
Arxiv preprint.
Recent & Upcoming Talks
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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
Visiting Ph.D. Student
University of Oxford
Hosted by Professor Arnaud Doucet.