I did my PhD in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 2012. I then went to the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2014, I moved to the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. In 2016, I joined the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Systems Biology at Columbia University as an Associate Research Scientist. In 2019, I returned to Israel as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv University. I joined the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London as a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in 2020; my position was confirmed as permanent (tenured) in early 2023.

I am Vietnamese, was born in the USA, grew up in Indonesia and Switzerland, did my undergraduate studies in the US in Chicago, worked for a year as a derivatives trader, went to graduate school in Switzerland, moved to Israel, moved back to the US to Durham, North Carolina and New York City, then moved back to Israel and finally, after multiple COVID-19 delays, am now in London.  I am Swiss and American.

I am interested in linguistics as a hobby and very much enjoy learning languages: I speak (in order of fluency) English, French (C2), Italian (C2), Vietnamese, Hebrew (A2), German (A2) and Indonesian.  I am also an avid sourdough baker (a lockdown-acquired hobby).

I was extremely lucky to be the human of the most incredible yellow Labrador Retriever named Suki, who followed me all around on my globe-hopping for 13 years between 2006 and 2019.