I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at University of Pennsylvania, mentored by Qi Long. I received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Boston University under the directions of Eric D. Kolaczyk, Daniel L. Sussman and Laura F. White, a MS degree in Statistics from University of Washington and a BS degree in Statistics from Shandong University.

My research interests include statistics for network data, causal inference under interference,  high-dimensional data analysis (e.g., -omics data and neuroimaging data), and statistical methods for infectious disease transmission and surveillance.