Annals

2024

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.
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.
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.