About me

I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Riverside. I am also a faculty member of the UCR Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2022 to 2024. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2022. My research interests broadly lie in statistical machine learning, computational statistics & optimization, and their applications in bioinformatics & cancer biology.

I am actively looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students to work on 1) method and algorithm development in statistics and machine learning and/or 2) applications in cancer biology. Please feel free to send me an email with your CV if you are interested.

News

• Oct. 2025: Our work on transfer learning for TP53 mutation annotation is now available on bioRxiv.
• Sept. 2025: Our paper Anderson Accelerated Operator Splitting Methods for Convex-nonconvex Regularized Problems was accepted by IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing!
• July 2025: Honored to receive UCR 2025-2026 Regents Faculty Fellowship (RFF) grant!
• May 2025: Honored to receive the IMS FSML Travel Award.
• Nov. 2024: Our DeMixSC paper was accepted by Genome Research!