North Carolina State University PhD, Statistics, 2023 Advisors: Brian Reich and Srijan Sengupta
The Ohio State University BS in Mathematics and BS in Physics, 2019 Minor in Statistics with Honors in the Arts & Sciences Summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
Positions
Akita International University Assistant Professor of AI & Data Science (tenure-track), Global Connectivity Program, 2024-Present
North Carolina State University Duke Clinical Research Institute T32 Trainee, Hwanhee Hong, 2021-2022 Data-Enabled Science and Engineering of Atomic Structures (SEAS) Fellow, 2020-2021
The Ohio State University Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Leonard Brillson, 2015-2019 Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, Christopher Hans, 2018
University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute Participant, Jenna Wiens and Danai Koutra, 2018
Justus-Liebig University Research Assistant, Institute of Applied Physics, Derck Schlettwein, 2017
Awards
Travel grant, ISBA World Meeting, $300, 2022 (declined)
Clint Miller Award (best graduate student poster), Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, 2021
Travel grant, Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, $700, 2021
Paige Plagge Graduate Award for Citizenship, Department of Statistics, NCSU,2020
Awarded for good citizenship to “a graduate student with an outstanding academic record, who in the judgment of the committee has especially enhanced the life of fellow students with encouragement, generosity and/or humor.”
University Graduate Fellowship, Graduate School, NCSU, 2019-2020
Phi Beta Kappa, 2019
Professional Service
Invited session organizer, 8th International Conference on Statistics and Econometrics (EcoSta 2025), Tokyo, Japan, 2025 Co-organizer, Brave New World: Launching AIU’s Third Decade: A Korea - Japan Joint Research Initiative Symposium, Akita, Japan, 2025 Sole organizer, 2024 Bayes Workshop, Akita, Japan, 2024
Served as a peer-reviewer for the following journals / conferences:
Bayesian Analysis
eBioMedicine
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2025 (2 reviews)
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics
Journal of the American Statistical Association - Theory & Methods
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2 reviews)
Journal of Statistical Software
The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science
npj Complexity
Scientific Reports
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Service
NC State-Duke Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) Graduate Student Mentor, 2022
Started an English Conversation Club in NCSU Department of Statistics where four to six international students and two domestic students met weekly to encourage department camaraderie while also teaching idioms and other American-English speaking conventions to the international students, 2019-2023