Teaching

As Teaching Assistant

  • Biostatistics 210- Rates and Proportions (Spring 2016)
  • Biostatistics 201- Intro to Statistical Methods (Fall 2016)
  • Biostatistics 226- Applied Longitudinal Analysis (Spring 2017)
  • Biostatistics 228- Applied Bayesian Analysis (Fall 2017)
  • Biostatistics 210- Applied Regression (Fall 2018)

As Project Mentor

As Lead Instructor

  • PARSE Ltd. Introduction to Data Science (Summer 2017)- week-long program for high school students.

As Co-Instructor

  • StatStart (Summer 2018)- summer program for high school students.

Funding

  • NIH T32 Training Grant Cancer (2018-2019). Coordinator: Giovanni Parmigiani, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
  • Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation Travel Grant Human Cell Atlas Jamboree. European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK (2017)
  • NIH T32 Training Grant Big Data to Knowledge (2016-2018). Coordinator: John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
  • NSF-CBMS Travel Award Topology, Geometry, and Statistics Workshop. University of Texas, Austin (2016)
  • NIH T32 Training Grant Clinical Epidemiology of Lung Diseases (2014-2016). Coordinator: Scott Weiss, Channing Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Interests

Statistics

  • Bayesian nonparametrics
  • spatiotemporal data
  • causal inference
  • non-negative matrix factorization
  • variational autoencoders
  • stable distributions, power laws, and Tweedie families

Biology

  • infectious disease
  • metagenomics
  • evolutionary dynamics