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Greetings! I am a tenured associate professor in the School of Data Science and Society at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a research associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Prior to joining to UNC in Jan 2025, I was a tenured associate professor in the Mathematics department at Indiana University.
During 2015-2018, I was a Van Vleck visiting assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, mentored by Sebastien Roch and Timo Seppäläinen. During 2014-2015, I received postdoctoral training at the Statistics and Operations Research department at UNC-Chapel Hill, mentored by Amarjit Budhiraja. In 2014, I earned my PhD at University of Washington-Seattle, supervised by Zhen-Qing Chen and Krzysztof Burdzy.
I was born in Hong Kong, where I obtained my MPhil degree in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Shiu-Yuen Cheng, and also my Bsc degree in Chinese University of Hong Kong. I enjoy reading about natural sciences and reaching out to nature. I’m particularly interested in hiking, kayaking and figure skating. Here is my CV.
News!
(Jan 1, 2025) I am thrilled to join the School of Data Science and Society at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as an associate professor with tenure.
(Sep 15-20, 2024) Spoke in the workshop Recent Developments in Dirichlet Form Theory and Related Fields, Oberwolfach, Germany.
(Sep 12, 2024) Spoke in AMS sectional meeting, St. Antonio, Texas, USA.
(May 9, 2024) Our paper ``Bursts of coalescence within population pedigrees whenever big families occur. " was selected as a Featured Article for the journal GENETICS.
(May 2, 2024) My student Dimitrios Diamantidis recieved the Best Thesis Award in Applied Mathematics at Indiana University. He will be joining ICERM as a postdoctoral scholar in academic year 2024-2025.
My student Max Newman is doing a summer intership at Fitila Technology, through the Internship Network in the Mathematical Sciences, to work on Generative AI Modeling.
(Mar 20, 2024) NSF DMS award- 2348164 is funded.
(Jan 3, 2024) The Indiana summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is open for registration: