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I am a statistician and an Associate Professor in the \"\"<\/a>Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/a>\u00a0at Vassar College<\/a>. I received my Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University <\/a>Department of Statistical Science<\/a>\u00a0in 2015 (advisor: Jerry Reiter<\/a>) and my BSc in Computing Mathematics, Department of Mathematics<\/a>, City University of Hong Kong<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n

I was selected as the ASA\/NSF\/BLS Fellow<\/a> at the\u00a0Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> in Washington D.C., 2018 – 2019,\u00a0a faculty fellow of Data Analysis and Statistics Research Opportunities with\u00a0NSF,\u00a0National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics<\/a> (NCSES), June to December 2020 and June to August 2021, and<\/span>\u00a0a fellow at OpenDP<\/a> in summer 2021. Currently I am a non-resident fellow at Urban Institute<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also provide statistical consulting service, mainly on data privacy and confidentiality. Currently I am a statistical consultant for the\u00a0New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<\/a>\u00a0on microdata privacy and confidentiality protection projects.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for my CV.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 2025:<\/em><\/p>\n

For family reasons, I am taking a leave from Vassar College and will be joining the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Binghamton University<\/a>, starting Fall 2025.<\/p>\n

I organized an invited session on “Recent Developments in Statistical Data Privacy Techniques and Applications” at the 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium<\/a> in June 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am so honored to be selected for the 2024\/25 Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a> from College of Science, City University of Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Come and check it out: DataFest 2025 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 11th to April 13th, 2025!!<\/p>\n

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FEBRUARY 2024:<\/em><\/p>\n

I will be presenting my work with Matthew Williams and Terrance Savitsky on Mechanisms for Global Differential Privacy under Bayesian Data Synthesis<\/a> at an invited session at the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting 2024 in June 2024 and at the International Society for Bayesian Analysis 2024 (ISBA 2024) World Meeting in July 2024. I will be serving as the session chair of a topic-contributed session on Evaluating Statistical Disclosure Control Techniques based on the Risk and Utility of Privacy-Protected Data at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2024 in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Mine Dogucu, Amy Herring and I are hosting our 2024 Bayes BATS<\/a> bootcamp at Vassar in July 2024! We are so excited to welcome another cohort of STEM educators to immerse in a week-long training and exchange of Bayesian topics and the teaching of them. The ISBA BERaP (Bayesian Education Research and Practice)<\/a> section is hosting a mixer at ISBA 2024 in Venice and we hope to see you there! Also at ISBA 2024, Harrison Quick and I will be giving a short course on Bayesian Methods for Statistical Data Privacy<\/a> and we hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

Join us for the Privacy and Public Policy Conference<\/a> in September 2024 at Georgetown Massive Data Institute!!<\/p>\n

My consulting work at the\u00a0New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<\/a> (NYC DOHMH) is going to be presented by my NYC DOHMH colleagues at the Federal Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection (FedCASIC<\/span>) Workshop <\/a>in April 2024 and the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 2024 annual conference<\/a> in May 2024.<\/p>\n

Come and check it out: DataFest 2024 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 5th to April 7th, 2024!!<\/p>\n

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MARCH 2022:<\/em><\/p>\n

I will be presenting my work with Terrance Savitsky and Matthew Williams on Private Tabular Survey Data Products through Synthetic Microdata Generation<\/a> at an invited session at the Joint Mathematical Meetings (virtual) in April 2022, at RAND’s Statistical Seminar in June 2022, at\u00a0Fields Institute Workshop on Differential Privacy and Statistical Data Analysis<\/a> in July 2022, and at an invited session at\u00a0CMStatistics 2022<\/a> in December 2022. I will also present our newest work on Mechanisms for Global Differential Privacy under Bayesian Data Synthesis<\/a> at a topic-contributed session at IMS Annual Meeting 2022 and an invited session at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August 2022.<\/p>\n

I organized two invited sessions at ISBA 2022<\/a>: Recent Advancements in Bayesian Methods for Statistical Data Privacy and Recent Developments in Bayesian Education. Can’t wait to be in Montreal for ISBA 2022!<\/p>\n

I was one of the invited panelists at ASA Privacy Day Webinar in January 2022. Here<\/a> is the session recording and here<\/a> is the link to my slide deck on Incorporating Disclosure Risk in Designing Data Synthesis Models.<\/p>\n

Kevin Ross and I will give an eCOTS workshop on Introducing Bayesian Statistical Analysis into Your Teaching, May 2022.\u00a0Check it out here<\/a> and many other great workshops!<\/p>\n

Come and check it out:\u00a0DataFest 2022 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 1st to April 3rd, 2022!!<\/p>\n

We are offering a co-taught, cross-campus Introduction to Data Science<\/a> course, June 8 to August 5, 2022 for the fourth time! Registration opens soon so stay tuned.\u00a0I am also sharing Vassar’s MATH 347 Bayesian Statistics again on the LACOL network<\/a> for Spring 2022: check out the course recordings<\/a>\u00a0and teaching and learning materials at this GitHub\u00a0repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FEB 2021:<\/em><\/p>\n

I will be presenting my work with Terrance Savitsky and Matthew Williams on Risk-efficient Bayesian Data Synthesis for Privacy Protection<\/a>\u00a0at invited sessions at\u00a02021 The Sixth International Conference on Establishment Statistics<\/a>. Mine Dogucu and I are presenting our Bayesian teaching experience and resources at SDSS 2021<\/a> in June 2021.<\/p>\n

Kevin Ross and I will give a USCOTS workshop on Introducing Bayesian Statistical Analysis into Your Teaching, June 2021. Check it out here<\/a> and many other great workshops!<\/p>\n

Come and check it out:\u00a0DataFest 2021 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 16th to April 18th, 2021!!<\/p>\n

We are offering a co-taught, cross-campus Introduction to Critical Data Science<\/a> course, June 6 to August 6, 2021 for the third time! Registration opens on March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n

Colin Rundel, Kevin Ross and I are hosting a panel discussion on Bayesian Methods and the Statistics and Data Science Curriculum<\/a> as part of the CAUSE and JSDSE series.<\/p>\n

I am giving a talk on my work with\u00a0Terrance Savitsky and Matthew Williams on Private Tabular Survey Data Products through Synthetic Microdata Generation<\/a>\u00a0at brown bag series at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).<\/p>\n

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JAN 2020: <\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Albert and I will give a JSM short course on\u00a0Bayesian Thinking: Fundamentals, Computation, and Hierarchical Modeling.<\/p>\n

I will be presenting my work with Terrance Savitsky on Risk-efficient Bayesian Data Synthesis for Privacy Protection<\/a>\u00a0at invited sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2020.\u00a0Also at Westat<\/a>, Smith College and UMass Amherst in Spring 2020.<\/p>\n

We are offering a co-taught, cross-campus Introduction to Critical Data Science<\/a> course, June 10 to August 7, 2020 again! Registration opens on March 1, 2020. I will be co-presenting aspects of the course at\u00a0OLC Innovate in Chicago<\/a> in April 2020.<\/p>\n

Come and check it out:\u00a0DataFest 2020 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 17th to April 19th, 2020!!<\/p>\n

I am sharing Vassar’s MATH 301 Data Confidentiality and MATH 399 Bayesian Inference with Python on the LACOL network<\/a> for Spring 2020.<\/p>\n

My Probability and Bayesian Modeling<\/a> book with Jim Albert was published by CRC Press in the Texts in Statistical Science series<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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MAY 2019:<\/em><\/p>\n

I am sharing Vassar’s MATH 347 Bayesian Statistics again on the LACOL network<\/a> for Fall 2019.<\/p>\n

I am co-teaching a cross-campus Introduction to Critical Data Science<\/a> course, June 3 to July 26, 2019, with colleagues from\u00a0Swarthmore College,\u00a0Washington<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Lee<\/span>\u00a0University, and Williams College.<\/p>\n

I am giving a workshop on Teaching a Shared\/Hybrid\/Online Course using Zoom<\/a> at the Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference<\/a> on May 22nd, 2019!<\/p>\n

Come and check it out:\u00a0DataFest 2019 @ Vassar<\/a> from April 12th to April 14th, 2019!!<\/p>\n

I am giving seminars on recent collaborative work on\u00a0Bayesian Pseudo Posterior Synthesis for Data Privacy Protection (seminar slides<\/a>; manuscript<\/a>) at the US Census Bureau and USDA National Agricultural Statistical Services in March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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