2005-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2008-Present, Faculty Affiliate, Computational Science and Engineering Program,
UIUC.
2001 - 2005, Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics and
Decision Sciences, Duke University.
2001, Ph.D., Statistics, Stanford University.
1997, B.S., Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China.
Editorial Board
Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,
2007-present.
Research Interests
Monte Carlo theory and methodology, and their applications to scientific problems
Bioinformatics and population genetics
State space models and dynamic systems
Tomographic analysis of the solar atmosphere