I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. I was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich, mentored by Peter Bühlmann. I obtained my PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, mentored by Venkat Chandrasekaran.
My research objective is to broaden the scope of inferential methodology to new and non-standard settings. I leverage insights from statistical inference as well as fundamental concepts from discrete and continuous optimization, combinatorics, order theory, and causality.
News:
Co-organizing the first Asian New Researchers Conference Asian NRC
Together with E. Lila, Y.S. Tan, Z. Cai, W. Wang. 2026.
Co-organized the first European New Researchers Conference European NRC
Together with E. Lila, A. Torrejon, V. Guerrero, and others. 2025.
Funding: I am grateful for support by the National Science Foundation with grant DMS-2413074 (PI) and by the Royalty Research Fund at the University of Washington (PI).
PhD students: I am currently looking for highly motivated PhD students. If you are a UW PhD student or have just been admitted, feel free to reach out to learn more and to talk about specific research ideas! Service for new researchers: I am passionate about giving young researchers in data science a platform to grow professionally. I am now serving as the president of the IMS New Researcher Group. In addition to continuing the tradition of organzing US New Reasercher conferences
2024 and 2025, I have co-organized the first international New Researchers conferences in Europe and Asia. If you have any suggestions for how to help young researchers, please do not hesitate to email me!
