Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2024; M.S. Statistics, University of California, Irvine (UCI)

  • 2021; B.S. Statistics and Data Science (summa cum laude), minor in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Publications

  • Li, H., Zhou, M., Sebastian, J., Wu, J., & Gu, M. (2022). Efficient Force Field and energy emulation through partition of permutationally equivalent atoms. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156(18), 184304. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088017

Presentations and Posters

  • Gaussian Process Priors with Markov Properties for Effective Reproduction Number Estimation (Presentation). Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR, August 2024.

  • Takeaways from Readings Selected by the Dogucu Research Group (Flash Talk). Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics: Regional Conference at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, June 2024.

  • The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Prior for Effective Reproduction Number Estimation (Poster). UCI Data Science Initiative: Statistical and Machine Learning Applications in Biomedical Sciences Workshop, Irvine, CA, February 2024.

Internships

  • 2024; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centers for Forecasting and Outbreak Analysis: Summer Internship in Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Nowcasting and Natural History team.

Software

  • epinowcast: Tools to enable flexible and efficient hierarchical nowcasting of epidemiological time-series using a semi-mechanistic Bayesian model with support for a range of reporting and generative processes. (author: contributed issues, code review, PRs) https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast

Teaching

Instructor

  • Summer 2023; STATS 67: Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science, UCI Statistics Department

Teaching Assistant

  • 2021-2022; STATS 7: Basic Statistics, UCI Statistics Department

  • 2021; STATS 8: Introduction to Biological Statistics, UCI Statistics Department

Learning Assistant

  • 2020-2021; PSTAT 5A: Introduction to Statistics, UCSB Statistics and Applied Probability Department (PSTAT)

Tutor

  • 2020-2021; PSTAT 109: Statistics for Economics, UCSB Campus Learning Assistive Services (CLAS)

Service

  • 2024-present; Pacific Alliance for Low-income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALiISaDS) Mentor

  • 2024-present; Graduate Student Representative, UCI Statistics Department

  • 2023-present; Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) Student Representative, UCI Statistics Department

  • 2023-present; Brown Bag Seminar Organizer, UCI Statistics Department

  • 2017-2020; Queer and Transgender Student Engagement Chair (QTSEC) and community council member, UCSB Residential Housing Association (RHA)

Academic Honors

  • 2020; Phi Beta Kappa Society

  • 2017-2021; UCSB Regents Scholarship

  • 2017-2021; UCSB Dean’s Honors

Programming Languages

Proficient

R, Python, Stan

Familiar

C++, Julia, SAS, MATLAB