Academic Activities

PRESENTATIONS

1. University of California Santa Barbara Engaging Teaching Symposium 2022, invited panel presenter, September 2022. Introducing graduate student interactive events: Promoting diversity in undergraduate education.

2. Statistics in Pharmaceuticals 2022, contributed speed presentation, August 2022. Dynamic models for corporate competitiveness of global healthcare industry with mixed effects.

3. Joint Statistical Meetings 2022, contributed speed presentation, August 2022. Dynamic models for corporate competitiveness of global healthcare industry with mixed effects.

4. Royal Statistical Society Young Statisticians Meeting 2022, contributed speed presentation (virtual), August 2022. Joint modeling of longitudinal processes and mortality via mixed effects state space models with applications to dialysis data.

5. WNAR/IMS/JR Annual Meeting 2022, contributed talk, June 2022. Joint modeling of longitudinal processes and mortality via mixed effects state space models with applications to dialysis data.

6. Symposium on Data Science & Statistics 2022, refereed talk, June 2022. Mixed effects state space models on research and development performance in the new energy vehicle industry after COVID-19 outbreak.

7. The 35th New England Statistics Symposium, contributed talk, May 2022. Joint modeling of longitudinal processes and mortality via mixed effects state space models with applications to dialysis data.

8. Joint Statistical Meetings 2021, contributed speed presentation (virtual), August 2021. State space assessment on the impact of COVID-19 on housing security for young adults in the US.

9. Graduate Student Summer Grants for Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) Symposium (virtual), invited talk, November 2020. Impact of COVID-19 on longitudinal clinical measurements from dialysis patients: modeling change via mixed effect state space model smoothing splines.

10. Joint Statistical Meetings 2020, contributed paper presentation (virtual), August 2020. Bayesian dynamic assessment of the impact of sea surface temperature on fishing effort in continental US Exclusive Economic Zone.

11. Joint Statistical Meetings 2017, contributed speed presentation, August 2017. Income and expenditure in US households - a multivariate analysis of consumer expenditure fmli161 dataset.

12. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2017, refereed poster presentation, May 2017. An Analysis of Factors Predicting Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention.

WORKSHOPS

1. Invited Attendee, the 5th Preparing for Careers in Teaching Statistics and Data Science Workshop, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, Washington DC, August 2022.

2. Contributed Talk, U.S. Census Bureau Seasonal Adjustment Practitioners Workshop, June 2022. Joint modeling of longitudinal processes and mortality via mixed effects state space models with applications to dialysis data.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

1. Resource Reviewer, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, American Statistical Association, December 2022 - present.

2. Organizer, Graduate Student Mixer Series: Diversity and Equity in Undergraduate Education, UCSB August 2022 - present.

• Designed an inclusive and productive event series encouraging culturally-relevant and inclusivity-focused pedagogy for graduate students.

• Organized workshop participation from faculty and departments with large undergraduate educational responsibilities.

3. Invited Panelist, Engaging Teaching Symposium, UCSB September 2022.

• Presented in panel on professional development and pedagogy, conducted discussion on interactive promotion of equity in classroom instruction.

4. Session Chair, Session on Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Competition, Biopharmaceuticals Section, Joint Statistical Meetings 2022.

5. Session Chair, Royal Statistical Society Young Statisticians Meeting 2022.

6. Session Chair, Contributed Session 4, WNAR/IMS/JR Annual Meeting 2022.

7. Session Chair, Session on Data Mining and Deep Learning, Symposium on Data Science & Statistics 2022.

8. Session Chair, Session on Missing Data Methods, Biometrics Section, Joint Statistical Meetings 2021.

9. Reviewer, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (1).

10. Reviewer, Statistics and Its Interface (2).

11. Reviewer, North American Actuarial Journal (1).

12. Reviewer, Computational Statistics (10).

13. Reviewer, Journal of Open Source Software (2).

14. Research mentor for undergraduate students, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, UCSB.

• Guided a team of undergraduate statistics students over collaborative summer research project on COVID detection in dialysis patient using statistical learning.

• Mentored actuarial program master’s students on capstone research projects.

MEMBERSHIP

• Member of American Statistical Association

• Institute of Mathematical Statistics

• International Chinese Statistician Association

• International Biometric Society and Royal Statistical Society