I am an Assistant Professor in the Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology within the Department of Biomedical Educations and Data Sciences at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine within Temple University. My day-to-day involves developing assisting trainees, residents and faculty with all statistical aspects of their projects, from IRB development and study design to statistical analyses and interpretation. In additional to the interdisciplinary, collaborative research with medical faculty, I continute to develop supervised dimension reduction methods for learning models by constructing summary statistics that describe the most endpoint-relevant features in the data. My statistical methods development is motivated by electronic health records (EHRs), electrocardiogram (ECG) data and cardiovascular endpoints in renal disease patients.
Prior to Temple, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher supervised by Dr. Wensheng Guo and Dr. Wei Yang in the Department of Biostatistcs, Epidemiology and Informations (DBEI) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. My research at Penn focused on developing methods to construct summary statistics that best describe features in the functional data that are most relevant to cardiovascular events. These methods were motivated and applied to the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study. Part of my duties as a postdoctoral researcher includes providing biostatistical support for clinical trials and cohort studies.
I obtained my PhD in Statistics at Penn State University, under the supervision of Dr. Bing Li, where I researched and developed sufficient dimension reduction methods for classification and functional data.
Current
Sept 2025 - Present – Assistant Professor | Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
- Providing biostatistical support to interdisciplinary research teams
- Developing methodological advances for EHR, functional and biomedical data
Past
Sept 2022 - July 2025 – Postdoctoral Researcher in Biostatistics | Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Supervisor(s): Dr. Wensheng Guo and Dr. Wei Yang
- Developing methodological advances for summarizing Electrocardiograms
- Analyzing crossover trial for vascular effects of e-cigarette
Instructor
Introductory Statistics, STAT200 | Summer 2019, Summer 2020 Online, Summer 2022
Elementary Probability, STAT318 | Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Introduction to Probability Theory, STAT414 | Summer 2018 World Campus
Teaching Assistant
- STAT517 - Probability Theory I (Fall 2020)
- STAT561 - Statistical Inference I (Winter 2020)
- STAT414 - Introduction to Probability Theory (Fall 2017, Summer 2017 World Campus)
- STAT319 - Introduction to Statistics (Winter 2017)
- STAT318 - Elementary Probability (Winter 2018)
- STAT200 - Introduction to Statistics (Fall 2016)
Education
PhD in Statistics | Pennsylvania State University, 2022
MSc in Statistics | University of Toronto, 2016
MA in Economics| University of Toronto, 2015
BSc (Honors) in Mathematics | University of Toronto, 2014
Programming Languages
- R, TeX, C++ (via Rcpp), SAS, Python, SQL, MATLAB, HTML
Languages
- English | Native level fluency