Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist Intern

Google

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Mountain View, California
Continuous monitoring of A/B testing with valid confidence intervals

  • Type I error control with mixture Sequential Probability Ratio Test (mSPRT) method
  • Power analysis
  • Multiple sequential testing
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of Michigan

Sep 2017 – Apr 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan

Black women’s wellness project, evaluating factors that associated with weight changes in intervention and control groups

Responsibilities include:

  • Randomization
  • Data Cleaning
  • Data Analysis
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of Michigan

Feb 2017 – Apr 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Established procedures for pre-processing and modeling of high frequency basal body temperature measurements via Hidden Markov Model (HMM), as well as prediction of ovulation by incorporating biorhythm information
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Dissertation Research

University of Michigan

Sep 2016 – May 2020 Ann Arbor, Michigan

Renewable Estimation and Incremental Inference with Streaming Health Datasets

Projects include:

  • Real-time regression analysis in generalized linear models
  • Real-time regression analysis with cluster-correlated streaming data
  • Multivariate online regression analysis with Heterogeneous streaming data

Awards & Accomplish­ments

Student Paper Competition Award for Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) 2020

SLDS 2020 Student Paper Competition Committee Mar 2020

Winning Proposal in the 2020 Joint Shark Tank Retreat

Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics at UMICH Feb 2020
This is an event to encourage collaboration between biostatistics and statistics PhD students. Yinqiu He (from stats) and I proposed a work entitled “real-time regression analysis of streaming health datasets with heterogeneity and correlation”.

2019 Excellence in Research Honorable Mention

Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health Nov 2019

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for Academic Year 2019-2020

Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan Sep 2019
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate

aUM Yoga Studio Dec 2018

2019 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award

The International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Dec 2018

2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium Poster Award of Most Innovative Use of Data

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Oct 2018

Publications

(2020). Real-time Regression Analysis of Streaming Clustered Data With Possible Abnormal Data Batches.. Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods) (invited revision).

Code Slides

(2020). Renewable Estimation and Incremental Inference in Generalized Linear Models with Streaming Datasets. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 82, Part 1, 69-97.

PDF Code Poster Slides

(2019). Detection and Prediction of Ovulation from Body Temperature Measured by An In-Ear Wearable Therometer. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

DOI

(2017). Identification of gene pairs through penalized regression Subject to constraints. BMC Bioinformatics.

PDF Code Poster

(2013). Novel EDA p.Ile260Ser Mutation Linked to Non-syndromic Hypodontia. Journal of Dental Research.

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Contact

  • M4135, SPH II, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA