Positions

• Associate Professor, Oakland University, Rochester, MI (Aug. 2025 - Present)

• Assistant Professor, Oakland University, Rochester, MI (Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2025)

• Postdoctoral Associate, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (Sept. 2018 - Aug. 2019)

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2018)

• B.S. in Statistics, Wuhan University (Aug. 2010 - Jun. 2014)

Service

• President, Detroit Chapter of American Statistical Association (2023)

• Judge, the 66th (2022-2023) Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit

• Associate Editor of Sequential Analysis, 2023 - Present

Honors/Awards/Grants

• Oakland University, Faculty Recognition Award for Research, 2025.

• Oakland University, URC Faculty Research Fellowship, Enhancing A/B testing efficiency through sequential estimation, $10,000, Summer 2024.

• NSF DGE-2244091 NRT-HDR: using a data analytics framework to merge STEM and entrepreneurial training, Role: Senior Personnel (PI: Fabia Ursula Battistuzzi, Co-PI: Meghan Ecker-Lyster, Ravindra Khattree, Randal Westrick, Vijayan Sugumaran), $1,999,947, 8/1/23-7/31/28.

• NIH 1R03CA273391-01 Communicating cancer risk of alcohol: Impact of narrative pictorial warning labels, Role: Statistical Consultant (PI: Zexin Ma), $150,000, 2022-2024.

• Oakland University, URC Faculty Research Fellowship, Improving the double sampling scheme, $10,000, Summer 2020.