I'm a 5th year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I mostly work in environmental statistics under my advisor Francesca Dominici and her colleague Roger Peng. We are developing statistical methods for quantifying the health effects of coarse particulate matter and the chemical constituents of fine particulate matter. I've also participated in many collaborative projects, particularly in women's health and genetic epidemiology. My additional research interests include Bayesian model selection, coefficient regularization, and hierarchical modelling.
I spent the early part of my childhood in Taiwan and then in the beautiful Vancouver, Canada. I received my BSc. in 2004 from the University of British Columbia where I was first introduced to research in statistics by Drs Nhu Le and Jim Zidek.
