People


Current


PhD students
  • Kai Jiang, Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health. 2023-present
  • Kevin McCoy, Statistics, Rice University. 2023-present. Recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award, 2023 [news]
  • Ziyi Wang, Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health. 2022-present
  • Yangfan Ren, Statistics, Rice University. Joint with Marina Vannucci. 2021-present
  • Zachary Wooten, Statistics, Rice University. 2020-present. Recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award, 2021 [news]
Postdocs

Alumni


Doctoral alumni
  • Licai Huang, now Bioinformatics and Data Scientist at GRAIL. PhD, Quantitative Sciences, 2023. Thesis title: "Statistical modeling approaches for the inference of cancer mechanisms".
  • Sarah Robinson, now Data Scientist II at Microsoft. PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2022. Thesis title: "Joint estimation and selection of multiple graphical models for microbiome data". Recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award, 2019 [news]
  • Nathan Osborne, now Senior Data Scientist at Intuit. PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2021. Joint with Marina Vannucci. Thesis title: "Advances in Bayesian approaches for directed and undirected graphical models". Student paper award winner, American Statistical Association (ASA) Statistical Computing and Graphics Section, 2020 [news]
  • Xinyue Qi, now Manager of Biostatistics at Gilead Sciences. Co-supervised with Shouhao Zhou. PhD, Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health, 2020. Thesis title: "Bayesian modeling of censored data with application to meta-analysis of immunotherapy trials". Student paper award winner, ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, 2020
  • Katherine Shoemaker, now Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Houston-Downtown. PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2019. Thesis title: "Statistical approaches for interpretable radiomics"
Postdoc alumni
  • Liangliang Zhang, now Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Quantitative Health, Case Western Reserve University. Joint with Kim-Anh Do and Robert Jenq, 2017-2021
  • Briceön Wiley, now Professor of Practice, Department of Decision & Information Sciences, University of Houston. 2020-2021
  • Yushu Shi, now Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Weill Cornell Medicine. Joint with Kim-Anh Do and Robert Jenq, 2017-2020
  • Priyam Das, now Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University. Joint with Kim-Anh Do and Veera Baladandayuthapani, 2017-2019
Undergrad students
  • Kendall Lemons, now PhD student at Weill Cornell Medicine. Summer intern while at Prairie View A&M University, Summer 2021