Kenny Chiu

I am a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. Within the department, I am also involved in statistical education initiatives 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.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Benjamin Bloem-Reddy. My research focused on developing hypothesis tests for conditional group symmetries, which has applications for statistical modeling, invariant and equivariant prediction models, and symmetry-related scientific discovery.

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

 

Teaching & Facilitating

• Sessional Lecturer
  2025W2: STAT 306 - Finding Relationships in Data
  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

 

Select Publications & Preprints

• Randomization Tests for Conditional Group Symmetry [article] [code]
  K. Chiu, A. Sharp, B. Bloem-Reddy
  Electronic Journal of Statistics 19 (2), 5979-6039

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

 

Education

• Ph.D. Statistics
  The University of British Columbia
  2021 - 2026

• 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.