Professional Experiences

Teaching

• Stat 425 (Statistical Modeling I), Instructor, Spring 2025
  

• The Summer Institute for Statistics in Big Data, Teaching Assistant, Summer 2023
  

• Stat 301 (Introduction to Statistical Methods), Teaching Assistant, Fall 2016/ Spring 201
  

Mentoring

• Heming Liu, 1st year PhD student, Statistics, UIUC
  

• Yinan Cheng, PhD candidate, Statistics, UIUC
  

• Xuhui Liu, PhD candidate, Statistics, UIUC
  

• Camille Little, PhD candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
  

• Jiaming Liu, PhD candidate, Statistics, Rice University
  

• Quan Le, former undergraduate student, Computer Science and Mathematics, Rice University, 2023; now a PhD student at Yale
  

• Zach Rewolinski, former undergraduate student, Statistics and Computer Science, Rice University, 2023; now a PhD student at UC Berkeley
  

Professional Services

• Organizer for an invited session in Joint Statistical Meetings, 2025
  

• Organizer for a topic-contributed session in Joint Statistical Meetings, 2022
  

• Session chair for ICASSP, 2022
  

• Referee for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Annals of Applied Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
  

Recent Talks

• Invited talk at 2024 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), 12162024
  

• Invited talk at CFE-CMStatistics, 12152024