Past Master Student/Ph.D. Student

Chih-Da Wu

2014 (UNC-CH)

Yimeng Lu

2006 (Columbia University) Co-advise with Eva Petkova
Title: Clustering Functional Data
First Job: Biostatistician at Novartis

Xiaoyan Shi

2008 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Model Diagnostics and Semiparametric Models for Neuroimaging Data
First Job: Biostatistician for software developer at SAS
Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2008
          Best Doctor Dissertation award of Biostatistics department at UNC-CH

Yimei Li

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Statistical Analysis of Complex Neuroimaging Data
First Job: Assistant member of Biostatistics at St Johns Children's hospital
Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2009
          Kupper Publication Awards

Ramon I. Garcia

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Variable Selection for Models with Missing Data
First Job: Student at a seminary school
Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2009

Hyunsoon Cho

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Diagnostic Measures for Statistical Models
First Job: Biostatistician at National Cancer Institute

Ying Yuan

2011 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Steven Marron
Title: Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
First Job: Post Doctoral Research Associate at UNC-CH

Zhaowei Hua

2011 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with David B. Dunson
Title: Bayesian Analysis of Varying Coefficient Models and Applications
First Job: Biostatistician at Millennium

Ja-An (Joanne) Lin

2013 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Statistical Methods for Imaging Genetics
First Job: Biostatistics Manager at Amgen Inc
Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2013

Zakaria Khondker

2013 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Bayesian Penalized Methods for High-Dimensional Data
First Job: Senior Biostatistician, Medivation Inc., San Francisco, CA
Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2013

Michelle Miranda

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Bayesian analysis of ultra-high dimensional neuroimaging data
First Job: post doctoral fellow at the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Honor: Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award- UNC Graduate School; academic year 2013-2014

Qiang Sun

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: On High Dimensional Sparse Regression and its Inference
First Job: Post Doctoral, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Second Job: Assistant Professor at Notre Dame University
Honor: ICSA Student Paper Award, ICSA 2013

Shangbang Rao

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Spatially Regularizing High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging
First Job: Senior Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford CT

Emil Cornea

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Advanced Biostatistical Methods for Curved and Censored Biomedical Data
First Job: Post Doctoral Research Associate at UNC-CH

Xiaolei Zhou

2015 (UNC-CH)
Title: Model Assessment for Models with Missing Data
First Job: Director, Biostatistics, at RTI Health Solutions

Eunjee Lee

2016 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Advanced Bayesian models for high-dimensional biomedical data
First Job: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health University of Michigan

Hojin Yang

2016 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Learning Methods in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Based on High-dimensional Features
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center