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Statistics PhD Students
Willi Artman
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Entered PhD program: 2016
Undergraduate Education: University of Rochester, Major: Mathematics, Minor: Japanese
Current Research Focus: Design and Analysis of Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials and the Construction of Dynamic Treatment Regimes | Thesis Advisors: Drs. Ashkan Ertefaie and Brent Johnson
Robert Beblavy
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Undergraduate Education: Binghamton University, Majors: Mathematical Sciences & Mathematical Physics
Zachary Brehm
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Entered PhD program: 2017
Undergraduate Education: State University of New York, College at Potsdam, Majors: Mathematics & Music Performance and Music Business
Graduate Education: State University of New York, College at Potsdam, Master of Arts: Mathematics and Master of Music: Music Performance
Current Research Focus: Statistical Methods for RNA-seq Data: Deconvolution of Bulk Tissue RNA-seq to Estimate Tissue Composition | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Matthew McCall
Marty Cole
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Entered PhD Program: 2018
Hometown: Norwich, England
Undergraduate Education: The Open University, Major: Engineering
Current Research Focus: High-dimensional data analysis, data dimension reduction techniques, computational statistics, epidemiology, machine learning
Dino de Raad
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Entered PhD program: 2021
Hometown: Sammamish, Washington
Undergraduate Education: University of Washington, Major: Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences: Scientific Computation and Numerical Algorithms
Luke Duttweiler
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Entered PhD program: 2019
Hometown: Angelica, New York
Undergraduate Education: Houghton College, Majors: Mathematics & Music Education
Graduate Education: State University of New York, College at Brockport, Master of Arts: Mathematics
Current Research Focus: Spectral Bayesian Network Theory: Graph Theoretic Solutions to Problems in Bayesian Networks | Thesis Advisors: Drs. Anthony Almudevar and Sally Thurston
Haotian (Alex) Guo
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Shandong, China
Undergraduate Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Majors: Mathematics & Statistics and Analytics
Christian Hammond
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Entered PhD program: 2021
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Undergraduate Education: University of Edinburgh, Major: Mathematics and Statistics
Meherab Hossain
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Undergraduate Education: Clark University, Major: Mathematics, Minors: Physics & Data Science
Jeremiah Jones
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Entered PhD program: 2017
Undergraduate Education: Stetson University, Major: Mathematics, Minor: Music
Current Research Focus: The Partial Linear Model in Causal Inference: Estimation, Selection, and Inference Leveraging Machine Learning | Thesis Advisors: Drs. Ashkan Ertefaie and Robert Strawderman
Jonathan Klus
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Hometown: Long Beach, New York
Undergraduate Education: Cornell University, Major: Applied Economics & Management
Graduate Education: Duke University, Master of Science: Statistical Science
Sami Leon
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Entered PhD program: 2019
Hometown: Montpellier, France
Undergraduate Education: University of Montpellier, Majors: Mathematics & Physics
Graduate Education: University of Paris-Saclay, Master of Applied Mathematics
Current Research Focus: High-Dimensional Semiparametric Mixed-Effects Model | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Tong Tong Wu
Ricardo Lopez Candelaria
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Entered PhD program: 2021
Hometown: San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
Undergraduate Education: University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla, Major: Environmental Technology
Graduate Education: University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, Master of Science: Mathematical Statistics
Current Research Focus: Functional Data Analysis and Parameter Estimation Methods for Systems of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xing Qiu
Samantha Manning
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Hometown: Frisco, Texas
Undergraduate Education: University of Southern California, Major: Mathematics
Graduate Education: University of Texas at Dallas, Master of Science: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Xinyue (Shirley) Mao
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Fujian, China
Undergraduate Education: Syracuse University, Major: Mathematics
Josh Marvald
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Entered PhD program: 2021
Undergraduate Education: St. Lawrence University, Majors: Mathematics and Statistics, Minor: Economics
Luke McHan
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Hometown: Haughton, Louisiana
Undergraduate Education: University of Louisiana at Monroe, Major: Mathematics
Yiping Pang
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Entered PhD program: 2018
Hometown: Shandong, China
Undergraduate Education: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Major: Statistical Science, Minor: Mathematics / Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Major: Economic Statistics
Current Research Focus: Bioassay Data Processing and Dimensionally Reduction with Mixed-Effects Models | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xing Qiu
Cuong Pham
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Entered PhD program: 2019
Hometown: Hai Phong, Vietnam
Undergraduate Education: Roosevelt University, Major: Actuarial Science, Minor: Business
Graduate Education: Loyola University Chicago, Master of Science: Applied Statistics
Current Research Focus: Sensitivity Analysis for Constructing Optimal Treatment Regimes in the Presence of Noncompliance and Two Active Treatment Options | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ashkan Ertefaie
David Skrill
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Entered PhD program: 2019
Hometown: Buffalo, New York
Undergraduate Education: Oberlin College and Conservatory, Majors: Economics (Mathematical Economics Concentration) & Cello Performance, Minor: Philosophy
Graduate Education: University of Rochester, Master of Music: Cello Performance and Literature
Current Research Focus: Component-Encoding Models | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Samuel Norman-Haignere
Hannah Swan
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Hometown: Aurora, Ohio
Undergraduate Education: Hamilton College, Major: Mathematics, Minor: Chemistry
Erik VonKaenel
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Entered PhD program: 2018
Hometown: Erie, Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Education: Slippery Rock University, Major: Mathematics, Minors: Statistics and Actuarial Science
Current Research Focus: Towards Modern Microglia Data Analysis | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Matthew McCall
Aaron Wagner
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Entered PhD Program: 2018
Hometown: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Undergraduate Education: Viterbo University, Majors: Mathematics and Physics
Current Research Focus: Hierarchies of Variability in Single Cell Data
Xinzhu (Claire) Wang
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Anshan, China
Undergraduate Education: University of Wisconsin - Madison, Major: Molecular Biology
Graduate Education: Emory University, Master of Science in Public Health: Biostatistics
Sam Weisenthal
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Entered PhD program: 2018
Undergraduate Education: Hamilton College, Major: Mathematics
Graduate Education: University of Rochester, Master of Science: Data Science / University of Rochester MD/PhD Program
Current Research Focus: Relative Sparsity, Value-Variance Tradeoff, and Decoupling; Justifiable Policies and Insight into Medical Decision Problems | Thesis Advisors: Drs. Sally Thurston and Ashkan Ertefaie
Qiuyi Wu
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Entered PhD program: 2019
Hometown: Suzhou, China
Undergraduate Education: Donghua University, Majors: Finance & Economics
Graduate Education: Rochester Institute of Technology, Master of Science: Applied Statistics
Current Research Focus: Image Processing with Optimally Designed Parabolic Partial Differential Equations | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xing Qiu