I joined the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor in 2020. From 2018 to 2020, I was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, supervised by Yong Chen and Mary Boland. I received my PhD in Statistics from the University of Florida in 2018 under the supervision of Malay Ghosh. I earned my BA from Cornell University and an MS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and I also worked in industry for five years as an engineer and as a financial analyst.
My research group focuses on Bayesian statistics, high-dimensional modeling, and scalable machine learning algorithms for large and complex data sets. Our research is primarily motivated by addressing “big data” challenges in contemporary biomedical and public health problems, including genome-wide association studies, computational drug repositioning, data integration, and analysis of electronic health records.
In Spring 2022, I am teaching STAT 721: Stochastic Processes.
Recent News
October 2021: New preprint “A Bayesian selection model for correcting outcome reporting bias with application to a meta-analysis on heart failure interventions” (with Xiaokang Liu, Lifeng Lin, Yulun Liu, Stephen E. Kimmel, Haitao Chu, and Yong Chen) on arXiv.
September 2021: “Neighborhood deprivation increases the risk of post-induction cesarean delivery” (with Jessica R. Meeker, Heather H. Burris, Lisa D. Levine, and Mary R. Boland) has been accepted by Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
July 2021: A chapter on spike-and-slab lasso methods (with Veronika Ročková and Edward I. George) will appear in the Handbook of Bayesian Variable Selection.
May 2021: New preprint “A Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework for geospatial analysis of adverse pregnancy outcomes” (with Cecilia Balocchi, Jessica Liu, Silvia P. Canelón, Edward I. George, Yong Chen, and Mary R. Boland) on arXiv.
May 2021: “Individual- and neighborhood-level risk factors for severe maternal morbidity” (with Jessica R. Meeker, Silvia P. Canelón, Lisa D. Levine, and Mary R. Boland) has been published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
April 2021: “On the beta prime prior for scale parameters in high-dimensional Bayesian regression models” (with Malay Ghosh) has been published in Statistica Sinica.
