Kenny Chiu

I am a Ph.D. Statistics candidate supervised by Benjamin Bloem-Reddy at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on developing hypothesis tests for conditional group symmetries, which has applications for statistical modeling, invariant and equivariant prediction models, and symmetry-related scientific discovery.

Within the Department of Statistics. I teach undergraduate statistics courses as a sessional lecturer and am involved in statistical education initiatives as an academic assistant with Flexible Learning and the Applied Statistics and Data Science Group. Outside of the department, I facilitate Instructional Skills Workshops for graduate students organized by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.

See my CV for a complete history of my activities and experiences.

 

Select Publications & Preprints

• Randomization Tests for Conditional Group Symmetry [arXiv] [code]
  K. Chiu, Alex Sharp, B. Bloem-Reddy

• Hypothesis Tests for Distributional Group Symmetry with Applications to Particle Physics [workshop] [poster] [code]
  K. Chiu, B. Bloem-Reddy
  NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop

• On the Statistical Properties of Entromin as an Orthogonal Rotation Criterion [M.Sc. thesis] [code]
  K. Chiu

 

Teaching & Facilitating

• Sessional Lecturer
  2025W1: STAT 200 - Elementary Statistics for Applications
  2024W2: STAT 306 - Finding Relationships in Data
  2024W1: STAT 306 - Finding Relationships in Data

• Graduate Student Facilitator
  Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
  July 2023 - Present

• TA Trainer
  UBC Department of Statistics
  Sep 2021 - Aug 2025

• Graduate TA
  2023W2: STAT 305 - Introduction to Statistical Inference
  2023W1: STAT 404 - Design and Analysis of Experiments
  2022W2: STAT 305 - Introduction to Statistical Inference
  2022W1: STAT 404 - Design and Analysis of Experiments
  2021W2: STAT 305 - Introduction to Statistical Inference
  2021W1: STAT 404 - Design and Analysis of Experiments
  2020W2: STAT 305 - Introduction to Statistical Inference
  2020W1: STAT 404 - Design and Analysis of Experiments
  2019W2: SCIE 300 - Communicating Science
  2019W1: STAT 404 - Design and Analysis of Experiments

 

Education

• Ph.D. Statistics
  The University of British Columbia
  2021 - Present

• M.Sc. Statistics
  The University of British Columbia
  2019 - 2021

• B.Sc. Combined Honours in Computer Science and Statistics
  The University of British Columbia
  2013 - 2018

  This page summarizes my thoughts about the courses I took during my B.Sc. UBC undergraduate students who are interested in statistics, machine learning or data science may find it to be of interest.