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 statistical methodology by leveraging insights and concepts from discrete and continuous optimization, combinatorics, order theory, and causality.
News:
Co-organized 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!
