Latest News
March 2024
New Paper Accepted in Nature Communications
Our paper "Training Data Diversity Enhances the Basecalling of Novel RNA Modification-Induced Nanopore Sequencing Readouts" has been accepted for publication.
January 2024
Keynote Speaker at International Statistics Conference
Delivered keynote address on recent advances in statistical machine learning for high-dimensional data analysis.
Education
Ph.D. in Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
M.S. in Statistics
Peking University, 1998
B.S. in Mathematics
Peking University, 1995
Academic Positions
Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2014-present
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics and data science. Leading research projects in statistical machine learning and high-dimensional data analysis.
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, 2008-2014
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, 2002-2008
Honors and Awards
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2015
NSF CAREER Award
2007