I have been an assistant professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, as well as Statistics at UBC. I hold Canada Research Chair Tier-2. My research primarily focuses on developing scalable probabilistic inference methods to elucidate hidden causal mechanisms of human diseases, such as cancer and other common/complex disorders.

Note: I started adding "P" as a middle initial since 2020 to avoid confusion with many other researchers with the same first and last name. "P" may be anything among "Probably," "Peter," "Projecting," etc.

Besides research, I love cooking while trying out different types of cuisines and recipes. I also like to watch history documentaries and films and read books on history. When I was young, I used to play Starcraft and practice hip-hop dance, but I gave them up once I realized that the joy of coding and doing science exceeded and was more rewarding to me.