Meet Research Statistician Developer Meichen Dong (@MeichenDong).
After receiving her bachelor's degree in China, Meichen moved to North Carolina to complete her master's and Ph.D. (both in biostatistics) at UNC-Chapel Hill. After graduation, she decided to stay in the Triangle by joining the JMP family! She is an avid member of the JMP volleyball team and also enjoys hiking and cooking in her free time.
We love Meichen's positive, patient, and active presence in the office, and are so glad to have her on our team!
Let's learn a little more about Meichen.
Where were you born?
Tangshan, Hebei province, China
What was your first job?
JMP
What is your role within JMP and what do you enjoy about your job?
Research Statistician Developer. I get to work on different interesting questions and explore solutions.
List three of your favorite hobbies.
- Volleyball
- Hiking
- Cooking
Name one thing most of your colleagues would be surprised to know.
I play volleyball every week.
What book are you reading?
Causal Inference
What is your favorite movie genre?
Comedy
What is the first web page you go to when you start work?
Google
If you could have a dinner party with five famous people, who would they be?
Trevor Noah, Jeremy Clarkson, Sam Altman, Serena Williams, and Novak Djokovic
Name one JMP-related achievement that you're proud of.
The Multivariate Embedding platform
Name one other person in the division who you admire and describe why in three sentences or fewer.
Russ Wolfinger. Great boss and mentor, always motivated and curious.
This or that?
What does Meichen prefer? (answers in BOLD text)
- A mountain holiday or A seaside holiday
- Cat or Dog
- Hot chocolate or Coffee or Tea
- Graph Builder or JSL
- Picnic or Restaurant
- Cake or Pie
- Morning or Late night
- Introvert or Extrovert or Ambivert
- Silly or Serious
- High-tech or Low-tech
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Thanks for sharing, Meichen! Beautiful photos!
@MeichenDong is the best. Love playing volleyball with you, Meichen; it was great to get to know a little more about you here!
Thanks for sharing! So nice to get to know you better.
It's great to get to know people from other departments, who are more behind the scenes. So Thanks a lot @MeichenDong for sharing. From your 5people list it seems volleyball is not your only favorite sport 
Thanks for sharing, it's so good to know you better!
Thanks for sharing, Meichen! Nice to know you better!
Thank you, everyone, for the comments! I'm glad to be featured!
@martindemel Haha thanks for the comment! It was actually very hard to think of five famous people and I do love watching tennis as well!
Wonderful to get to know you better @MeichenDong. Thank you for all you do for us here at JMP! (Multivariate Embedding in jmp17 is so cool). Causal Inference is quite the reading topic.:thinking_face: If you want to share some what you learn I'm happy to listen and get insight, I'm sure others would too.
