UPSTAT 2026

I attended the 14th annual UPSTAT at Siena University in Loudonville, New York along with students Vijay Bapana and Henrik Bingemann. Vijay and Henrik both presented posters of their research projects, and Vijay won 3rd place in the poster competition!

 In collaboration with Eric Zhang, Jiawen Chen, and Didong Li, "Contrastive Dimension Reduction: A Systematic Review" was published in WIREs: Computational Statistics, available here.

 In collaboration with Fei Chen and others, "Professionalism Perceptions: A Comparison of Anesthesiology Trainees and Attendings" was published in Anesthesiology, available here.

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.

From August 4-9, 2025, I attended MAA MathFest 2025 in Sacramento, CA as part of the Orange '25 cohort of Project NExT. 

On May 10, 2025, I graduated with my Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis, titled "Innovations in Dimension Reduction: Contrastive, Sufficient, and Fair Approaches" on April 7, 2025.

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!

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!