Teaching

Summer Course

3rd Annual Summer Program in Statistical Functional Genomics (StatFunGen) — From GWAS to Spatial Omics
- Instructor, Shenzhen, China
- June, 2025
- Delivered two half-day lectures on statistical foundations for modern genetic association studies, including regression modeling, mixed models, hypothesis testing, and Bayesian inference in statistical genetics
- Teaching materials: Statistical Genetics Primer Lecture Notes

Teaching Assistant

Classical Contributions to Modern Statistical Thinking
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Spring 2022
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin
Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences (I and II)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Spring 2022; Fall 2022
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin
Matched Sampling for Causal Inference
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2022; Spring 2021
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2022
- Lecturer: Prof. Per Johansson
Micro-econometrics: Identification and Inference
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2022; Spring 2021
- Lecturer: Prof. Per Johansson
Summer School on Statistics, Big Data, and Artificial Neural Network
- Tsinghua University and BIMSA, Beijing, China
- Summer 2020
- Lecturers: Prof. Donald Rubin, Prof. Xiaoming Zhang, Prof. Minlie Huang and Prof. Xiaolong Li
Calculus
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Spring 2019; Fall 2016; Spring 2016; Fall 2015
- Lecturer: Prof. Yitwah Cheung etc.
Probability and Statistics
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Spring 2018; Fall 2017; Spring 2017
- Lecturer: Prof. Hongyan Tang
Linear Algebra
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2018
- Lecturer: Prof. Lianrong Ma
Design of Experiments
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2018
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Spring 2019
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin
Inference from Experiments
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Fall 2019
- Lecturer: Prof. Donald Rubin

Mentorship Experience

Jeffrey Lin
- MS Biostatistics Student, Columbia University
- Jan 2025 - present
Jingyi Xu
- MS Biostatistics Student, Columbia University
- September 2024 - present
Derek Lamb
- MS Biostatistics Student, Columbia University
- March 2024 - May 2025
Minghui Wang
- MPH Epidemiology Student, Columbia University
- March 2024 - August 2024

HPC Cluster Environment Setup

To help new users in Dr. Leal’s lab to set up their computing environment on the HPC cluster at Columbia University Medical Center, refer to the two tutorials here: