Skidmore College
I am excited to begin a new job at Skidmore College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
A photo of the entrance to campus taken during my interview in October 2024.
Project NExT and MathFest 2025
From August 4-9, 2025, I attended MAA MathFest 2025 in Sacramento, CA as part of the Orange '25 cohort of Project NExT.
Placeholder: picture of Sacramento waterfront until Orange '25 cohort photo is available.
Graduation!
On May 10, 2025, I graduated with my Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Left to right: Jiawen Chen, Didong Li, me.
Final Defense
I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis, titled "Innovations in Dimension Reduction: Contrastive, Sufficient, and Fair Approaches" on April 7, 2025.
Left to right: Didong Li, Mike Love, Katie Hoadley, me, Jeremy Purvis. Back (Zoom): Yun Li.
NeurIPS 2024
I attended NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, from December 10-15, where I presented my paper on Contrastive Dimension Estimation. I made some friends studying in Heidelberg, Germany!
From left to right: Giuseppe Viterbo, me, Leonard Storcks, Robin Janssen.
JSM 2024
I attended the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, OR, from August 3-9, where I presented my research on Contrastive Dimension Reduction. Other members of the Li Lab attended as well!
From left to right: Hong Niu, Didong Li, me, Jiawen Chen