About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University, with a secondary appointment (by courtesy) in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.

Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, I worked with Kenneth Lange at the University of California Los Angeles with support from the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. I completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington advised by Volodymyr Minin, where my work was funded by an NDSEG Fellowship.

I grew up in Tucson, where I received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2012. There I was mentored by Kevin Lin and William Vélez, supported by the Flinn Foundation Scholarship.

Some recent and upcoming:

Research assistant Min Chen won the Dean’s Research Award for his project on scalable temporal smoothing for rate-heteregeneous SIR models. Congratulations!
Research assistant Rick Presman’s recent work was featured as an Oral Presentation at Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (top ~1.5% of submissions). Congratulations!
Research assistant Haoyu Jiang’s recent work received a Student Paper Award from the ASA Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Section. Congratulations!
I am Area Chairing ICML, AIStat, ICLR, and NeurIPS.