I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics at College of Public Health, The Ohio State University.

Before that, I was a postdoctoral research associate in Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T-6) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), working with Drs. Ethan O. Romero-Serverson, Carmen Molina-París, and Thomas Leitner. Prior to LANL, I was a Data Science fellow of Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) at the University of Michigan, mentored by Profs. Aaron A. King and Edward L. Ionides. I received by Ph.D. and M.Phil degrees in applied mathematics from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Prof. Daihai He.

My research focuses on:

• Phylodynamics, Phylogenetics, Bioinformatics:
  • a unified framework of phylodynamics: (Structured) Markov Genealogy Processes
  • modelling and inferring the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of segmented RNA viruses with reassortment
  • within-host viral phylodynamics with multiple data streams
  • within-host genetic variation and transmission pair inference
• Infectious Disease Modelling:
  • mathematical modelling and statistical inference for infectious disease transmission dynamics
  • environmental and behavioral impacts on disease transmission
  • effectiveness of policies and NPIs

Education

• Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic university, 2019.
• M.Phil, Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic university, 2017.
• B.Sc, Information and Computing Science, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2014.

Recent news

• [2025-03] I gave a live-streaming talk at phyloseminar, one of the three in the series “Markov genealogy process”.
• [2024-07] I taught a 2.5-day short course with Spencer Fox at SISMID 2024 in Atlanta, GA.
• [2024-06] I presented a poster at EEID 2024 in Stanford, CA.