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PhD candidates are students who have passed their qualifying exam and are now focusing on dissertation research.
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Marisa Blackman
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Huiding Chen
PhD studentAdvisor: Cindy Chen
MS, Biostatistics, Georgetown University
Research interests include: Bayesian methods, clinical trials, EHR/EMR, machine learning
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Alexis Fleming
PhD studentAdvisor: Rameela Raman
BA, Statistics and Financial Economics, Gustavus Adolphus College
Research interests include: Bayesian methodologies, clinical trials, survival analysis
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Megan Taylor Jones
PhD studentAdvisor: Simon Vandekar
BPH, Public Health (minor in Mathematics), University of Kentucky
Research interests include: neuroimaging, data-driven public health improvements, mental health
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Jamie Gudeon Joseph
PhD candidateAdvisors: 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
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Kaidi Kang
PhD candidateAdvisor: Simon Vandekar
MS, Biostatistics, Georgetown University
Research interests include: Alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging
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Yeji Ko
PhD studentAdvisor: Benjamin French
MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; BS, Statistics, University of Michigan
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Lisa Levoir
PhD studentAdvisor: Tatsuki Koyama
BA, Biology (minors in Community and Global Health and Geography), Macalester College
Research interests include: translational biological research, public health
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Zhuohui "Jeffrey" Liang
PhD studentAdvisor: Bryan Shepherd
MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Public Health, Shandong University
Research interests include: data integration, clusters, omics
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Yunbi Nam
PhD studentAdvisors: Andrew Spieker and Jonathan Schildcrout
MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Mathematics and Economics, Sogang University
Research interests include: data integration, precision medicine
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Maximilian "Max" Rohde
PhD candidateAdvisors: 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
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Danni Shi
PhD studentAdvisors: 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
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Lan Shi
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Joshua Slone
PhD studentAdvisor: Bryan Shepherd
MS, Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests include: predictive modeling
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Kay Soga
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Tianyi Sun
PhD candidateAdvisor: 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
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Julia Thome
PhD candidateAdvisors: 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
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Shengxin Tu
PhD candidateAdvisor: 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
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Hannah Weeks
PhD candidateDissertation: 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.
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Hao Wu
PhD studentAdvisors: 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
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Jiangmei Ruby Xiong
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Bailu "Lucy" Yan
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Yan Yan
PhD candidateAdvisor: 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
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Chih-Ting "Teresa" Yang
PhD studentAdvisors: Qi Liu and Yu Shyr
MS and BS, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University
Research interests include: genomics, precision medicine, biomedical imaging data
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Lydia Yao
PhD studentAdvisor: Yaomin Xu
BS, Data Science and Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University
Research interests include: statistical methods; modeling within health and medicine
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Haoyang Yi
PhD studentAdvisor: Chris Lindsell
MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Resources and Environmental Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interests include: statistical modeling, solving clinicians' problems
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Siwei Zhang
PhD studentAdvisor: 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
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Xinyu Zhang
PhD studentAdvisors: Hakmook Kang and Simon Vandekar
MS, Biostatistics, Yale University; BS, Statistics, SWUFE (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), China
Research interests include: clinical trials