Biography

Tingting is currently the Alfred J. Verrecchia Endowed Assistant Professor in the College of Business at URI. Previously, she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at Bryant University. She earned her MSc and PhD in Statistics from the University of British Columbia under the guidance of Prof. Alexandre Bouchard-Côté.

Tingting held postdoctoral positions at UMass Amherst, Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, specializing in data science, machine learning, business analytics and healthcare informatics. Her research spans Bayesian Statistics, machine learning methodologies, deep learning, and healthcare analytics. Passionate about teaching, Tingting excels in undergraduate and graduate courses on machine learning, data visualization, and statistics. She also coordinated undergraduate healthcare analytics programs while she was at Bryant University and chaired the Analytics Without Borders Conference in 2024. In her leisure time, Tingting enjoys playing with her four-year-old daughter and exploring new destinations through travel.