I am currently an associate professor in statistics at the University of Toronto. I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University in 2008, and my Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2013. I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 2013-2016.

My research aims to develop advanced data science tools and methodologies to handle large, complex, multi-scale real-world data. I work on topics including statistical machine learning, neuroimaging data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, and causal inference. My research is being supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the University of Toronto’s Data Science Institute, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI), CANSSI Ontario, and Mitacs. 

I am looking for students/postdocs with strong quantitative and/or computational background to join my research team.