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I am an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and a data science fellow in the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. I also serve as a co-investigator and statistician at the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. My research is supported by NSF and NIH.

Research Interests

Nonparametric statistics Topological data analysis Missing data Cluster analysis Manifold learning Large-scale structure Astrostatistics

Contact: yenchic(at)uw(dot)edu

Recent News

• [10/13/23] New paper on arXiv: Modeling Missing at Random Neuropsychological Test Scores Using a Mixture of Binomial Product Experts.
• [09/12/23] New paper on arXiv: Efficient Inference on High-Dimensional Linear Models with Missing Outcomes.
• [04/30/23] New paper on arXiv: Bayesian Finite Mixtures of Ising Models.
• [03/19/23] New paper on arXiv: Skeleton Regression: A Graph-Based Approach to Estimation with Manifold Structure.
• [01/26/23] Skeleton Clustering: Dimension-Free Density-based Clustering was accepted to the Journal of American Statistical Association.
• [09/01/22] SCONCE: A cosmic web finder for spherical and conic geometries was accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
• [08/01/22] Receive the ASA Noether Early Career Scholar Award.

Research Affiliations

• UW eScience Institute
• UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
• National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center

Research Groups

• UW Geometric Data Aanalysis Group

Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Industrial Engineering

• University of Washington:
  • Ashis Banerjee
  • Youngjun Choe
  • Wei Guo

Astronomy

• Academia Sinica (Taiwan):
  • Yen-Ting Lin
• Carnegie Mellon University:
  • Rupert Croft
  • Tiziana DiMatteo
  • Hung-Jin Huang
  • Rachel Mandelbaum
  • Sukhdeep Singh
  • Ananth Tenneti
    • Link to our publicly available filament catalogue: Cosmic Web Reconstruction.
      
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab:
  • Siyu He
  • Shirley Ho
• New York University:
  • Anthony Pullen
• Ohio State University:
  • Jonathan Blazek
• Princeton University:
  • Peter Melchior
• University of Washington:
  • Matthew McQuinn

Machine Learning

• Carnegie Mellon University:
  • Martin Azizyan
  • Aarti Singh
• Montana State University:
  • Brittany Fasy

Biostatistics

• Academia Sinica (Taiwan):
  • Ming-Yueh Huang
• University of Washington:
  • Gary Chan
  • Andrew Zhou

Biology

• University of Toronto (Canada):
  • Ran Kafri
  • Shixuan Liu
  • Ceryl Tan
  • Jerry Wang
• Harvard Medical School:
  • Miriam Ginzberg

Psychology

• National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan):
  • Li-Yun Chang

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