Academic Profile

About

Selected honors, presentations, academic service, and professional affiliations.

Honors & Awards

  • University of Connecticut Predoctoral Fellowship, January 2026.

Selected Presentations

  • “Longitudinal Study of Appetite Loss and Inflammation in Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study,” poster, 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, Maryland, November 2026.
  • “Robust Community Detection for Noisy Networks with Covariates: Application to Functional Brain Networks,” data blitz talk & poster, 29th Annual Neuroscience at Storrs, University of Connecticut, October 2026.
  • “The Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing Policy on Mobility and Expenditure in Seoul Metropolitan City,” invited talk, COVID-19 Data and Disease Modeling International Symposium, Incheon, South Korea, May 2024.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer, The Annals of Applied Statistics.
  • Acting Session Chair, “Emerging Topics and Recent Advances in Methods for Survival Analysis,” 2025 ICSA Annual Meeting.

Professional Memberships

  • American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
  • New England Statistical Society (NESS)
  • International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)