Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics at Bryant University
Tingting received her Msc. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Statistics, advised by Prof. Alexandre Bouchard-Côté in 2013 and 2018. Before joining Bryant University, Tingting was a TRIPODS postdoctoral research associate of theoretical data science in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst under the guidance of Prof. Patrick Flaherty in 2021. Before that, she completed her B.S. in Statistics from Zhejiang University in China. She was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University under the supervision of Prof. Jennifer Dy from January 2019 to December 2020. She was also a sponsored research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School under the supervision of Prof. James Ross. Her research interests focus on Bayesian Statistics, Markov Chains Monte Carlo methods, deep learning, lifelong learning, feature selection, and blackbox model interpretation with applications to genetics and computational biology.