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I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, working with Professor Yingqi Zhao.

I received my PhD from the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. My research interests include causal inference and survival analysis for both observational and randomized studies, the analysis of novel and composite endpoints, data fusion for multi-source biomedical data, sample size calculation and monitoring for clinical trials. I am also broadly interested in applications to early cancer detection, cardiovascular outcome trials, HIV/AIDS, racial disparities in healthcare, etc.

During my PhD study, I was also a Biostatistics Student Fellow at Duke Clinical Research Institute, under the supervision of Professors Huiman Barnhart, Roland Matsouaka, Sean O’Brien, and Yuliya Lokhnygina.

Selected honors and awards (more can be found in my Publications page under each paper):

• ASA Biopharamaceutical Section Scholarship Award ($3,000), 2026
• Gold Reviewer Award, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
• Merck Research Fellowship ($22,500), 2025
• IMS Hannan Student Travel Award ($600), 2025

I was born in Guizhou Province, PRC, and had the privilege of spending three enriching years at No.1 High School of Guiyang before commencing my college education.