2026

09/26: New NSF award ‘Efficient Bayesian Computations for Inference from Privatized Data’.
09/26: Teaching Math 20 Probability in Fall 2026.
05/26: Three undergraduate mentees selected for the Presidential Scholars program at Dartmouth.
03/26: Organized a reading group that follows ‘Counting and Markov Chains’ by Mark Jerrum.
01/26: New semester starts at Dartmouth. I teach a new graduate level topic class on privacy-preserving machine learning. Weekly recaps of this class are posted to my blog, see for example week 6 recap.

2025

11/25: Honored to receive the 2025 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award by International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
09/25: Teaching Math 20 Probability in Fall 2025.
07/25: Join the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College.
05/25: New manuscript SOMA: A Novel Sampler for Bayesian Inference from Privatized Data with Yifei Xiong is on arxiv.
03/25: Simulation-based Bayesian inference from privacy-protected data with Yifei Xiong and Sanguo Zhang accepted by the Transactions of Machine Learning Research.
03/25: Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains with Qian Qin and Guanyang Wang has been accepted by the Annals of Statistics.

10/24: I am jointly organizing the Online Monte Carlo Seminar. Also check out our YouTube Channel.
09/24: 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.
05/24: Our paper SNP-Slice: A Bayesian nonparametric framework to resolve SNP haplotypes in mixed infections with Jiawei Liu and Qixin is published on Bioinformatics.
03/24: I am teaching Stat/Math 416: Probability in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
01/24: I am teaching STAT 519: Probability in Spring 2024.

New paper Spectral gap bounds for reversible hybrid Gibbs chains with Qian Qin and Guanyang Wang is on Arxiv.
Our 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.
I am teaching Stat/Ma 519: Introduction to Probability in Fall 2022.
I become an associate member of Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, starting June 2022.
I received my first grant “Statistical methods to quantify the effectiveness of active case detection for malaria” from the Indiana CTSI under its Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design program pilot grant. Thank you, Indiana CTSI!

I am organizing a SAMSI workshop on “Pros and Cons of ABMs for Epidemic Modeling”. This is held June 21st - 22nd, 2021.
I defended my dissertation “Statistical Methods in Infectious Disease Modeling: Agent-based Models, Computations, and Selection Biases” on May 14th, 2021.
Starting August 2021, I will be Assisant Professor of Statistics at Purdue University.