Miscellaneous
Honors and Awards
- Donald A.S. Fraser Doctoral Award, 2025
- ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Winner, 2025
- Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, 2024
- IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, 2024
- ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, 2024
- School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Conference Grant, University of Toronto, 2024
- CANSSI Multidisciplinary Doctoral Trainee, 2020-2025
- National Scholarship (Top 2%), 2018, 2019
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student at Sun Yat-Sen University, 2017-2020
External Grants and Research Support
- Anthropic (Claude) AI for Science Program Support (Amount: $10,000), 2026
- Biswas Family Grant (Amount: $25,000), 2026
Talks and Presentations
- NESS 2026, Storrs — May 2026
- JSM 2025, Nashville — August 2025
- ICSDS 2024, Nice — December 2024
- ENAR Spring Meeting — April 2024
- The Fifth ICSA-Canada Chapter Symposium — June 2022
- CANSSI Ontario Research Day — September 2022
Professional Service
- Reviewer for: Journal of the American Statistical Association, PNAS, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Bioinformatics, ISMB/ECCB.
- Chair of the Statistical Learning in Large-Scale Medical Imaging Studies session at the ICSA-Canada Chapter Symposium, 2022.
- Chair of the Signal and Noise in Imaging Datasets session at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), 2023.
- Local organizing committee, IMS New Researchers Conference, 2023.
Others
I play League of Legends
well. My rank is Diamond, which statistically puts me in the top 4% tier — or at least that’s what the rating system developed by the Biometrika paper and the AoS paper say.I have a cat called ‘Peanut’.