Education

1. Southern Methodist University

   09/2025 – 05/2030

   Ph.D. in Biostatistics (Joint Program with UT Southwestern Medical Center)

   GPA 4.0 / 4.0 · In Progress

2. Brown University

   09/2023 – 05/2025

   Sc.M. in Biostatistics (Thesis)

   GPA 3.83 / 4.0

3. Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance

   09/2019 – 06/2023

   B.S. in Data Science and Big Data Technology

   GPA 3.87 / 4.0

   • Awarded for National Scholarship.
   • Graduated with distinction.

Experience

1. UT Southwestern Medical Center

   Dallas, Texas

   1. Research Assistant

      06/2026 – Present

      McDermott Center Bioinformatics Lab · Dr. Chao Xing

2. Southern Methodist University

   Dallas, Texas

   1. Teaching Assistant

      01/2026 – 05/2026

      Practical Introduction to Data Science · Dr. Danhyang Lee

   2. Teaching Assistant

      09/2025 – 12/2025

      Intro Statistical Methods · Dr. Niloofar Ghorbani

3. Brown University

   Providence, Rhode Island

   1. Teaching Assistant

      02/2025 – 05/2025

      Optimization Algorithms in Data Science · Prof. Alice Paul

   2. Research Assistant

      06/2024 – 01/2025

      HEAL Data2Action (D2A) Program - Emulator of RESPOND Model, with Syndemics Lab at Boston Medical Center · Prof. Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou

      • Utilized GEE, GLME, MERF and LSTM models to emulate the outcome of RESPOND model;
      • Advanced data transformation and model tuning techniques such as Hyperband search are used to conduct comparisons between models to find out the one with the best performance;
      • Constructed a model fitting and predicting pipeline for Boston Medical Center's research workflow.

   3. Research Assistant

      03/2024 – 05/2025

      A Causal Approach to Fair Predictive Modeling via Penalized Maximum Likelihood Estimation · Prof. Alice Paul

      • Utilized path-specific effects (PSEs) and penalized maximum likelihood estimation (PMLE) to address discrimination in datasets, ensuring fairer predictive outcomes;
      • Employed the g-formula to estimate causal parameters, such as natural direct and indirect effects, for decomposing the total effect of variables on outcomes;
      • Generalized this algorithm and developed a python package.
      Project link →

   4. Teaching Assistant

      03/2024 – 05/2024

      Applied Regression Analysis · Prof. Anarina Murillo

4. PricewaterhouseCoopers Shanghai Acceleration Center

   Shanghai, China

   1. Junior Data Analyst Intern

      07/2022 – 11/2022
      • Designed and implemented the database migration scripts and added them to the project pipeline, improving the process deployment efficiency by 50%;
      • Optimized SQL queries for 60 million rows of data, reducing their execution time to one-third of the original;
      • Analyzed the features and distribution of user data, providing insights from a data science perspective;
      • Advanced the project launching date by one day by fixing bugs from a business perspective.

5. Enligence Laboratory of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance

   Shanghai, China

   1. Research Assistant

      11/2019 – 01/2023

Activities

1. Brown University, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics

   Providence, Rhode Island

   1. Master's APC Student Representative

      09/2024 – 05/2025
      • Solicit concerns from students to be presented to the Committee;
      • Get student feedback on current issues being discussed in the Committee;
      • Facilitate the communication between the committee and the students as needed.

Publications

Projects