About

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles.

Before joining the faculty at UCLA, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. There I was also in Biostatistics/Bioinformatics as a secondary appointment by courtesy, and retain a courtesy appointment in both departments. Prior to Duke, I was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Kenneth Lange, and was an NDSEG Fellow at University of Washington, where my PhD was advised by Volodymyr Minin. I grew up in Tucson, and received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2012. There I was mentored by Kevin Lin and William Vélez.

Some recent and upcoming:

Catch me at ISBA in Nagoya, IBC in Seoul, CGSI in Los Angeles and JSM in Boston this summer
I am area chairing ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and AIStat 2026
Congratulations to group alum Saptarshi Chakraborty who will join the Statistics faculty at University of Michigan