Welcome to my corner of the world …
I am Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. My research interests include Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo methods, differential privacy, and applied statistics. Prior to Dartmouth, I was an assistant professor at Purdue Statistics. I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Harvard University. I am a proud alumna of Wellesley College.
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.wordpress.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..