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More about me
I grew up in Xuzhou, China. After high school, I attended college at the beautiful and mountainous Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I learned a lot of statistics, some finance, limited Cantonese, and had the opportunity to work with some wonderful mentors. Somewhat unusually, I also spent a summer selling hot dogs, corn, Dippin' Dots, and making gigantic cotton candies at the Schlitterbahn waterpark in New Braunfels, Texas. I then lived in Seattle for five years during the best era in Seahawks football and spent a summer with the microeconomics group at Microsoft Research as a research intern. Unbelievably, we won the 2016 Microsoft summer basketball league championship despite my presence on the team. I then moved to the East Coast for two years, enjoying pizza, snow, Gothic-style libraries, Metro-North, and lockdown in New Haven, before moving back to the West Coast in 2020.
A recent project of mine is a children's alphabet book on Bayesian statistics: B is for Bayesian.