Selected Media
[2024] "Shrinking Family Sizes May Change Our Experience with Aging", Scientific American. Retrieved January 10, 2024. Published January 30, 2024.
[2023] "The Great Cousin Decline", The Atlantic. Retrieved November 27, 2023. Published December 19, 2023.
[2018] "Lifespan is continuing to increase regardless of socioeconomic factors, Stanford researchers find", Stanford News. Published November 6, 2018.
Academic Training
[June 2024] Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, University of California, Berkeley
[Nov 2022] Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
[June 2021] Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Services
[2025] Co-organizer of the workshop "Kinship Dynamics: Concept, Modelling, and Applications" at the National University of Singapore, Feb 5. [Handout]
[2023] Co-organizer of the workshop "Kinship networks, genealogies and relatedness in structured populations" at the 8th Meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society, March 31. [Handout]
[Till 2024] Occasional Reviewer for: PNAS; Nature; Demography; Theoretical Population Biology; Demographic Research; Scientific Reports; Human Ecology; Genus; Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences
Teaching Assistantship
[Fall, 2021] BIO 81 "Introduction to Ecology" (4 Units), Department of Biology, Stanford University
[Fall, 2020] BIO 81 "Introduction to Ecology" (4 Units), Department of Biology, Stanford University
[Fall, 2016] "Regression Analysis" (32 School Hours), Department of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Starred Courses
[Winter 2021] BIO 329 "Matrix Methods for Dynamic Models and Data Analysis", Department of Biology, Stanford University
[Spring, 2021] BIO 330 "Stochastic Methods for Simulation, Dynamics and Data Analysis", Department of Biology, Stanford University