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Hello, my name is Lydia! I am a postdoctoral fellow, advised by Professor Roger Peng, in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em Horns!). My research interests include data provenance, data preprocessing, data visualization, uncertainty communication, and R software development.

In 2024, I completed my PhD in computer science at the Australian National University (ANU) under the supervision of Professor Lexing Xie, Dr. Petra Kuhnert, and Professor Jenny L. Davis. My doctoral research resulted in a new visualization (Smallset Timelines) and R software package (smallsets) for documenting data preprocessing decisions.

During my doctoral program, I was a Data61 affiliate at CSIRO (Australia’s national science agency) and a team member of the Humanising Machine Intelligence project and Computational Media Lab at ANU.

Previously, I completed a two-year post-bachelor fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, where I modeled the health burden of non-fatal injuries on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. I have a Bachelor of Arts in statistics from the University of Missouri and completed my honors thesis on uncertainty visualization in spatial statistics under the supervision of Professor Christopher K. Wikle.