Meet Our PhD Students
Department of Biostatistics & Informatics
Ali Ashkanani
PhD Student
Arunangshu Sarkar
PhD Student
Bryn Evohr
PhD Student
Cheng-Chang Wu
PhD Student
Eduardo Romo
PhD Student
MPH: Biostatistics, University of California Irvine, 2024
BA: Public Health Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Thesis Adviser: Kevin Josey, PhD
Research Interests: Causal Inference and Environmental Health.
Ella Hagopian
PhD Student
MS: Biostatistics, ColoradoSPH, CU Anschutz
MS thesis title: “Viability of sequence balance minimization and information sharing as a doubly adaptive trial design.”
BA: Analytical Public Health, Statistics concentration, St. Olaf College
Thesis Adviser: Alex Kaizer, PhD
Possible Thesis Title: “Covariate-adaptive randomization and information-sharing innovations in adaptive clinical trial designs.”
Research Interests: adaptive clinical trial designs, covariate-adaptive randomization, information sharing.
Jacob Kebe
PhD Student
BS: Mathematics (Statistics), Arizona State University
Thesis Adviser: Debashis Ghosh, PhD
Research Interests: Causal Inference, Proximal Causal Inference, Transportability, Clinical Trial Emulation.
Student Spotlight Series: Jacob Kebe
Jared Rieck
PhD Student
Jinal Shah
PhD Student
MPH: Biostatistics Concentration, New York University
BS: Mathematics, Criminal Justice Minor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Thesis Adviser: Ryan Peterson, PhD, & Yue Wang, PhD
Research Interests: Model selection, Post-selection Inference, Spatial Transcriptomics, Reproducibility.
Karen Kanaster
PhD Student
Lauren Gunn-Sandell
PhD Student
MPH: Epidemiology, ColoradoSPH
BS: Fermentation and Food Science, Colorado State University, Summa cum laude
Research Interests: Clinical trials, infectious disease, reproducibility, and research rigor.
Lei Wang
PhD Student
Lu Bai
PhD Student
Madelynn Schina
PhD Student
Mahfuza Haque Mahi
PhD Student
Mojde Mir
PhD Student
Nannan Wang
PhD Student
Nanxi Guo
PhD Student
Opeyemi Jegede
PhD Student
Sarah Bird
PhD Student
Siyang Ren
PhD Student
B.S.: Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
M.S.: Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Adviser: Fuyong Xing, PhD
Thesis Topic Idea: Applying deep learning methods to medical imaging data.
Yanran Wang
PhD Student
Yanyan Xu
PhD Student
PhD: Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
Master: Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Undergraduate: Anhui Medical University, Anhui, China
Thesis Adviser: Yue Wang, PhD
Research Interests: High-dimensional multi-view data integration and dimensionality reduction.
Yifan Zhao
PhD Student
BS & MS: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Thesis Adviser: Camille Moore, PhD
Thesis Title: Evaluating Reference-Mixture Matching in Cell-Type Deconvolution with Single-Cell RNA-seq References
Research Interests: Genomics.
Yuanqing Liu
PhD Student
M.A.: Biostatistics, Brown University
B. Economics: Insurance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Thesis Adviser: Alex Kaizer, PhD
Thesis Title: Bayesian Group Sequential Enrichment Design for Biomarker-Guided Adaptive Clinical Trials
Research Interests: Adaptive trial design, Bayesian modeling.
Ziwei Tian
PhD Student
M.S.: Biostatistics, University of Michigan
B.S.: Life Science Informatics, Statistics, University of Michigan
Research interests: Genomics, transcriptomics, and multiomics data integration; computational immunology; longitudinal and spatial data analysis; graphical models and network analysis; machine learning; deep learning.