Research Interests

• Causal inference for experimental and observational studies
• External controls in RCTs
• Challenges arise from designing and analyzing vector-control trials
• Applied statistics for social and biomedical problems

Education

• Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, 2024.
• M.A., Statistics, Columbia University, 2014.
• B.S., Applied Mathematics, Shanghai University, 2011.

Appointments

• 2026–present: Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine
• 2025–2026: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Davis
• 2024–2025: (Postdoctoral) Research Associate in Biostatistics, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR), Harvard University
• 2014–2018: Statistical Analyst/Biostatistician, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Earlier Internships includes a data-science internship at Genentech (2022–2023) and a data-science internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2019).