BS in Finance and MS in Applied Statistics (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

BS in Statistics (Xidian) and MS in Statistics (UC Riverside)

Best Paper Award Runner-up, 2025 Statistical Methods in Imaging (SMI 2025) Conference

R. L. Anderson Graudate Student Poster Award, 2025 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference (SRCOS 2025), Jekyll Island, Georgia

Travel Award,  2025 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference (SRCOS 2025), Jekyll Island, Georgia

Best Poster Award, The Second UT Dallas/UT Southwestern Annual Workshop on Imaging and Data Science, Richardson, Texas, 2024

BS in Mathematics and MS in Statistics (Stephen F. Austin State University)

Travel Award,  2025 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference (SRCOS 2025), Jekyll Island, Georgia

Travel Award,  2023 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference (SRCOS 2023), Waco, Texas

BS in Medicine (Harbin Medical University) and MS in Public Health (Michigan)

Co-mentored with Dr. Guanghua Xiao at UT Southwestern

Thesis title: Computational identification of infilrating T lymphocytes into solid tumor

First position: Biostatistician, Johnson & Johnson

BM in Business Administration (Xiangtan University) and MS in Statistics (UTRGV) 

Thesis title: Bayesian statistical modeling of spatial transcriptomics data: Spatial domain identification and cell-type deconvolution

First position: Lecturer, UTRGV

Mei Lein Fellowship (2024)

Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Conference Travel Award  (2024)

BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (ECUST), MS in Applied Mathematics (UH), and MA in Statistics (Columbia)

Thesis title: Bayesian methods for multi-sample single-cell omics data

First position: Research Scientist, Meta

Best Poster Award, 2025 Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS 2025), The Woodlands, Texas

Best Poster Award, 2025 DFW Data Science and Statistics Day (D^3), Richardson, Texas

Best Poster Award, The Second UT Dallas/UT Southwestern Annual Workshop on Imaging and Data Science, Richardson, Texas, 2023

Travel Award,  2023 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference (SRCOS 2023), Waco, Texas

BS in Statistics (Zhejiang Gongshang University)

Co-mentored with Dr. Sunyoung Shin at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Thesis title: Advanced statistical methods for analyses of spatial transcriptomics data and multi-source data

First position: Data Scientist, Point72 Asset Management

BS in Pharmaceutical Science and MS in Medicinal Chemistry (Peking University)

Co-mentored with Dr. Xiaodan Fan at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thesis title: Bayesian nonparametric clustering analysis for spatial data with high-dimensional covariates

First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Visting scholar at UT Dallas, Fall 2023

BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Co-mentored with Dr. Guanghua Xiao at UT Southwestern

Thesis title: Bayesian statistical modeling of spatially transcriptomics data [link]

First position: Quantitative Strategist, Goldman Sachs

Best Talk Award, 2023 Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM 2023), online

Best Poster Award, 2023 Eastern North American Region (ENAR 2023) Spring Meetings, Nashville, Tennessee

Travel Award, 2022 International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology (OBayes 2022), Santa Cruz, California

Student Research Paper Award, 2022 New England Statistics Symposium (NESS 2022), Storrs, Connecticut

BS in Statistics (University of Delhi) and MS in Applied Statistics (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Thesis title: Bayesian model-based cluster analysis and its applications in epidemiology and microbiology [link]

First position: Principal Biostatistician, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Best Poster Award, 2020 Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS 2022), Corpus Christi, Texas

BS in Mathematics (DeSales University) and MS in Mathematics (Villanova University)

Thesis title: Bayesian statistical methods for urinary microbiome data analysis [link]

First position: Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern School of Public Health

David Daniel Award in Natural Science and Mathematics (2023)

Outstanding TA Award in Mathematical Sciences (2021)

BS in Statistics (Shangdong University) and MS in Statistics (Rice University)

Co-mentored with  Dr. Xiaowei Zhan at UT Southwestern

Thesis title: Bayesian statistical modeling of metagenomic sequencing data [link]

First position: Data Scientist at Waste Management

Best Poster Award, 2019 Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS 2019), Beaumont, Texas

BS in Pathology (Peking University)

Co-mentored with Dr. Min Chen at UT Dallas

Thesis title: Tracking dissemination of plasmids in the murine gut using Hi-C sequencing & Bayesian landmark-based shape analysis of tumor pathology images [link]

First position: Senior Biostatistician at Novartis

McDermott Graduate Fellow

BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Zhejiang University)

Co-mentored with Dr. Guanghua Xiao and Dr. Yang Xie at UT Southwestern

Thesis title: Bayesian spatial analysis of high throughput sequencing data [link]

First position: Computational Biologist at GeneGenieDx