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 primary faculty in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. I was also in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics 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:

Together with Prof. Leo Duan, I will be teaching a short course on “Harnessing Optimization in Bayesian Inference” at JSM 2025. Registration deadline is June 30
Our foray into typed point processes received the ISBA BBP Best Paper Award. Group alum Fan Bu will present at the BBP conference in LA June 27
Congratulations to group alum Raphael Morsomme on receiving the Student Paper Award in the 2025 ASA LiDS Paper Competition
Congratulations to group alum Saptarshi Chakraborty who will join the Statistics faculty at University of Michigan