About me
I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Toronto Scarborough and the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. I also
hold a non-budgetary cross appointment at the
Department of Mathematics (since May 2025).
Before joining U of T as a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in July 2018, I was a non-tenure track Assistant Professor in Financial Mathematics at
the
Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, mentored
by
Jin Ma and
Jianfeng Zhang.
I received my PhD in Mathematics from the
University of Washington in 2016
under the supervison of
Soumik Pal. I also completed an MPhil
in Mathematics at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong under
the guidance of
Ka Sing Lau.
I am an associate editor of the journal
Information Geometry (2022-present).
Research
Research interests:
Mathematical finance, probability, optimal transport, information geometry, and their applications.
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Funding and awards:
- NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2025-06021 (2025-2030)
- Royal Society International Exchange Grant (joint with Andrea Macrina) (2025-2027)
- Data Science Institute
Seed Funding for Methodologists (2022)
- Connaught New Researcher Award (2020-2022)
- NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2019-04419 (2019-2025)
PhD students: