MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Public Health, Shandong University
Advisor: Bryan Blette
BA, Biology (minors in Community and Global Health and Geography), Macalester College
Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: first-year liaison / outreach chair, 2023–2024; vice president, 2024–2025
Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: president, 2025–2026; treasurer, 2024–2025
BA, Statistics and Financial Economics, Gustavus Adolphus College
MS, Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, Southern Methodist University; BS, Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing)
Advisor: Simon Vandekar
BPH, Public Health (minor in Mathematics), University of Kentucky
Lead TA, 2024–2025
Honors include: Alavi Mandell Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging for Assessment and Comparison of 18F-Fluorocholine PET and 99mTc-Sestamibi Scans in Identifying Parathyroid Adenomas: A Metaanalysis, 2022
Whitman’s career in public health research started at Imperial College London, where she focused on chronic disease and cancer epidemiology. During her studies, she also edited regional HIV prevention proposals in Eastern Europe and the Balkans for the United Nations Development Program. She has since worked an intern at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, clinical trials coordinator in the gastrointestinal oncology department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and data manager and clinical research analyst for UCSF’s Center for Neuroendocrine Tumors, where she enjoyed collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to answer questions in areas ranging from genomic medicine and survival analysis to in-clinic quality improvement.
Research interests include: neuroendocrinology, clinical trials
Thesis: Properties of Variance Estimators in Finite Sample Sizes
Advisor: Andrew Spieker
MS, Epidemiology, Imperial College London; BA, English and Spanish, University of St. Andrews
At Meta since 2024. Currently Data Scientist IV.
Advisor: Bryan Shepherd
MS, Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Publications include:
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Advisor: Benjamin French
MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; BS, Statistics, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Network Analysis and Visualization of Disease Multimorbidity Using Electronic Health Records and Genetic Biobank Data
Advisor: Yaomin Xu
MS, Biostatistics, Duke University; BS, Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai
Advisor: Simon Vandekar
MS, Statistics, Columbia University; BS, Actuarial Studies, The Australian National University
Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: treasurer, 2022–2023; vice president, 2023–2024; president, 2024–2025