PhD Students

Advisor: Leena Choi

Post-baccalaureate studies, Mathematics, Smith College; BA, Music (minor in Mathematics), The College of New Jersey

Research interests include: pharmacokinetic modeling, pharmacometrics, electronic health records

Advisor: Cindy Chen

MS, Biostatistics, Georgetown University

Research interests include: Bayesian methods, clinical trials, EHR/EMR, machine learning

Advisor: Rameela Raman

BA, Statistics and Financial Economics, Gustavus Adolphus College

Research interests include: Bayesian methodologies, clinical trials, survival analysis

Advisor: Simon Vandekar

BPH, Public Health (minor in Mathematics), University of Kentucky

Research interests include: neuroimaging, data-driven public health improvements, mental health

Advisors: Rameela Raman and Andrew Spieker

MS, Analytics, Georgia Institute of Technology; BS, Mathematics, College of William and Mary

Research interests include: causal inference, mobile interventions, clinical trials

Advisor: Simon Vandekar

MS, Biostatistics, Georgetown University

Research interests include: Alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging

Advisor: Benjamin French

MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; BS, Statistics, University of Michigan

Advisor: Tatsuki Koyama

BA, Biology (minors in Community and Global Health and Geography), Macalester College

Research interests include: translational biological research, public health

Advisor: Bryan Shepherd

MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Public Health, Shandong University

Research interests include: data integration, clusters, omics

Advisors: Andrew Spieker and Jonathan Schildcrout

MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Mathematics and Economics, Sogang University

Research interests include: data integration, precision medicine
 

Advisors: Ben French and Frank Harrell

MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; BA, Physics and Geology, Carleton College

Research interests include: adaptive clinical trial design, reproducible research, statistics education

Advisors: Jinyuan Liu and Hakmook Kang

MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Statistics (minors in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), University of Washington

Research interests include: causal inference, clinical trials, observational studies, imaging data analysis

Advisor: Dandan Liu

MS, Applied Statistics, University of Michigan; BS, Statistical Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research interests include: applying machine learning to biomedical imaging data, wearable health device data analysis

Advisor: Bryan Shepherd

MS, Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Research interests include: predictive modeling

Advisor: Panpan Zhang

Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics, Australian National University; MS, Anthropology, Minnesota State University; BA, Comparative Culture, University of Tsukuba

Research interests include: data science, survival analysis

Advisor: Dandan Liu

MS, Biostatistics/Theory and Method, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; BS, Biological Sciences, Beijing Forestry University

Research interests include: predictive modeling, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, machine learning, real-world evidence in healthcare

Advisors: Rameela Raman and Bryan Shepherd

BA, Mathematics (minors in Statistics and Biology), Cornell College (Iowa)

Research interests include: causal inference, health policy evaluation, child welfare

Advisor: Bryan Shepherd

MS, Biostatistics, Duke University; BS, Mathematics, Renmin University of China

Research interests include: rank correlation for clustered data and applications of statistical methods in HIV/AIDS research

Dissertation: Overcoming Challenges with Real World Data and Clinical Restrictions in Pharmacokinetic Analyses

Advisor: Matt Shotwell

BS, Mathematics and Psychology, Binghamton University

Research interests include: pharmacokinetics, unmeasured confounders in observational data

Co-winner of the 2020 IT Innovation Award for {EHR}, an electronic health record data processing and analysis package that provides modules to perform diverse medication-related studies.

Advisors: Cindy Chen and Amir Asiaee

MS, Biostatistics, University of Michigan; BS, Food Science / Data Science / Architecture, China Agricultural University

Research interests include: machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational biology, electronic health records

Advisor: Simon Vandekar

MS, Statistics, Columbia University; BS, Actuarial Studies, The Australian National University

Research interests include: NLP (Natural Language Processing), multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) data, social network data

Advisor: Hakmook Kang

MS, Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, Southern Methodist University; BS, Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing)

Research interests include: biomolecular study, machine learning, data engineering, randomized controlled trials

Advisor: Hakmook Kang

PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; MS, Biostatistics, Middle Tennessee State University; BS, Biotechnology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Research interests include: imaging genomics, risk genes identification of complex traits, functional connectivity analysis

Advisors: Qi Liu and Yu Shyr

MS and BS, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University

Research interests include: genomics, precision medicine, biomedical imaging data

Advisor: Yaomin Xu

BS, Data Science and Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University

Research interests include: statistical methods; modeling within health and medicine

Advisor: Chris Lindsell

MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Resources and Environmental Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research interests include: statistical modeling, solving clinicians' problems

Advisor: Yaomin Xu

MS, Biostatistics, Duke University; BS, Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai

Research interests include: graph models, nonparametric Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, genetic and electronic health record data

Advisors: Hakmook Kang and Simon Vandekar

MS, Biostatistics, Yale University; BS, Statistics, SWUFE (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), China

Research interests include: clinical trials