About
Hello! I am currently a postdoctoral research scientist in biostatistics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, working with Prof. Yifei Sun and Prof. Yize Zhao (Yale University). Prior to this, I was a research trainee at University of Western Ontario, Canada and Sichuan University, China. My research interests focus on statistical methodology and applications to address challenges concerning time-to-event data, longitudinal data, noisy data, survival analysis, nonparametric statistics, causal inference, and statistical learning. Please feel free to reach out if you’re interested in discussing research and potential collaboration opportunities!
Education
Research Interests
- Statistical Learning
- Nonparametric statistics
- Survival & time-to-event analysis
- Longitudinal methods
- Noisy data
- Causal inference
News
- Nov 2025 — Our paper “Inference about Separable Causal Effects with Longitudinal Bivariate Ordinal Responses with Missingness and Censoring” is accepted by Statistics in Medicine.
- Mar 2025 — Our paper “Addressing Label Noise in Causation Classification via Kernel Embeddings” is accepted by Statistica Sinica.
- Apr 2024 — Our paper “Characterizing the COVID-19 dynamics with a new epidemic model: Susceptible-exposed-asymptomatic-symptomatic-active-removed,” published in The Canadian Journal of Statistics, is recognized among the journal’s Top 10 most-cited papers.
- Mar 2024 — Our paper “Characterizing the COVID-19 dynamics with a new epidemic model: Susceptible-exposed-asymptomatic-symptomatic-active-removed,” published in The Canadian Journal of Statistics, is recognized as a Top Downloaded Article.
- Jun 2022 — Receive the Junior Researcher Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA).
- Jan 2022 — Our paper “Characterizing the COVID-19 dynamics with a new epidemic model: Susceptible-exposed-asymptomatic-symptomatic-active-removed” is accepted by The Canadian Journal of Statistics.
Selected Publications
Teaching
Mathematical Statistics
Lecturing tutorial, University of Western Ontario, Canada — Jan–Apr 2023; Jan–Apr 2024
Intermediate Probability
Lecturing tutorial, University of Western Ontario, Canada — Sep–Dec 2023
Calculus
Lecturing tutorial, Sichuan University, China — Sep 2018–Dec 2019
Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
Lecturing tutorial, Sichuan University, China — Mar–Jul 2018
Contact
Email: ph2745@cumc.columbia.edu / pingbo.hu@gmail.com
Address: Office: R606, 722 West 168th Street, New York City, NY, USA, 10032
Links: CV Google Scholar LinkedIn GitHub