Teaching
PhD Students Supervised
Rajdeep Brahma, UIUC PhD Statistics, 2024-Present (Co-advised with Yuguo Chen).
Zhexu Jin, UIUC PhD Statistics, 2025-Present.
Georgios Avdis, UIUC PhD Statistics 2024-Present.
Instructor (UIUC)
Stat 578: Topics in Statistics: Spectral Methods, Statistical Network Analysis, and Nonconvex Optimization (Fall 2025)
Stat 511: Advanced Mathematical Statistics (Fall 2025)
Stat 410: Probability and Statistics II (Fall 2024)
Instructor (JHU)
HEART Course: Statistics and Data Science with Networks (Fall 2022)
553.283 Introduction to R (Intersession 2022)
HEART Course: Statistics and Data Science with Networks (Fall 2021)
553.283 Introduction to R (Intersession 2021)
553.810 Probability and Statistics (Notes on RMT for a topics course I co-created.) (There is a mistake in the first half of these notes where I apply Weyl’s inequality to a non-Hermitian matrix, but I think the argument goes through by taking real parts.)
Teaching Assistant (JHU)
553.310 Probability and Statistics (Summer 2020)
553.310 Probability and Statistics (Summer 2019)
553.762 Nonlinear Optimization II (Spring 2019)
553.730 Statistical Theory (Fall 2018)
Grader (Wisconsin)
ActSci 655 Health Analytics (Spring 2017)
ActSci 651 Life Contingencies II (Fall 2016)
ActSci 650 Life Contingencies I (Spring 2016)