Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Statistics

Title Assistant Professor of Statistics

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Statistics
Machine Learning
Oceanography

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
539A

Mail Stop SOE2

Biography, Education and Training

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before my current position, I was a post-doctoral researcher (advised by Jacob Bien), with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (advised by Max G'Sell and Ryan Tibshirani) and a B.S. from the University of Michigan.

I develop statistical tools for large complex data in real-world scientific applications.

My current research centers around statistically analyzing the ocean's microbial ecology using high-resolution biological and remote sensing datasets (e.g., flow cytometry, metagenomics, DNA metabarcoding, and spatial proteomics). 

My work is supported by the Simons Foundation and by the National Science foundation (CAIG AI+Geosciences).

I'm also an early-career representative on the Section U steering committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Advisees, Grad Students & Researchers Zheng, Ziyue (zzheng95@ucsc.edu)
, (epawl@ucsc.edu)