Biography

Employment

  • Assistant Professor at Department of Biostatistics, City University of Hong Kong, Aug, 2022 - present

Education

  • PhD The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Statistics (2022). PhD thesis won the 2023 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Best Thesis Award.
  • MPhil Hong Kong Baptist University, Statistics (2018)
  • Bsc Hong Kong Baptist University, Statistics (2016)

Talks

  • Leveraging genetic diversity to fine-map causal variants of complex traits. Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar at The University of Sydney. Mar 18, 2024.
  • Cross-population Fine-mapping by leveraging genetic diversity and accounting for confounding bias. East China Normal University. Jan 15, 2024.
  • A unified framework for fine-mapping by leveraging genetic diversity and accounting for confounding bias. Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data. Nov 10, 2023.
  • A statistical method for Cross-population fine-mapping by leveraging genetic diversity and accounting for confounding bias. Joint Bioconductor Asia - Hong Kong Bioinformatics Symposium at The University of Hong Kong. Oct 16, 2023.
  • A statistical framework for fine-mapping by leveraging genetic diversity and accounting for confounding bias. The 6th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2023) at Waseda University. Aug 3, 2023.
  • A statistical framework for Cross-population fine-mapping by leveraging genetic diversity and accounting for confounding bias. The 2023 ICSA International Conference at CUHK. July 7, 2023.
  • A fast and scalable statistical framework for genetic risk prediction of large-scale datasets. 2022 R conference. Nov 21, 2022.
  • Scalable statistical methods for cross-population risk prediction and integrative analysis of multi-omics data. PhD defense at HKUST. May 17, 2022.
  • A fast and accurate method for genetic risk prediction by leveraging biobank scale data. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Jan 6, 2022.
  • BIVAS: A scalable Bayesian method for bi-level variable selection, Joint Meeting of 10th Asian Regional Section (ARS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) and the NZ Statistical Association (NZSA) at University of Auckland. Dec 11, 2017.

Honors

  • Best Thesis Award, Hong Kong Mathematical Society, 2023.
  • Redbird Academic Excellence Award, HKUST, 2022.
  • The 17th Epsilon Fund Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2022.
  • Din-Yu Hsieh Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2021.
  • Postgraduate Research Excellence Award, School of Science, HKUST, 2020.