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Statistics PhD Students
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
Akhil Bandreddi
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Entered PhD program: 2023
Undergraduate Education: American University, Majors: Applied Mathematics and International Studies
Christian Hammond
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Entered PhD program: 2021
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Undergraduate Education: University of Edinburgh, Major: Mathematics and Statistics
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
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: New Methods for Leveraging Encoding Models to Understand the Computations and Organization of Language Processing in the Human Brain | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Samuel Norman-Haignere
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
Eli Sun
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Entered PhD program: 2023
Undergraduate Education: University of Rochester, Major: Statistics
Hannah Swan
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Hometown: Aurora, Ohio
Undergraduate Education: Hamilton College, Major: Mathematics, Minor: Chemistry
Current Research Focus: Differential Expression Analysis of miRNA Data through Bayesian Hierarchical Multinomial Logistic Normal Models | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Matthew McCall
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
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
Current Research Focus: Bayesian Infinite Mixture Models for Latent Exposures
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
Current Research Focus: Network Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data
Meherab Hossain
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Undergraduate Education: Clark University, Major: Mathematics, Minors: Physics & Data Science
Nathan Provost
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Entered PhD program: 2023
Hometown: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Undergraduate Education: Brown University, Majors: Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Current Research Focus: Multivariate Survival Analysis, Statistical Chaos Theory, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Inference, Asymptotic Theory, and Stochastic Calculus
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
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
Robert Beblavy
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Entered PhD program: 2020
Undergraduate Education: Binghamton University, Majors: Mathematical Sciences & Mathematical Physics
Current Research Focus: Differential Abundance Analysis Conditional on Functional Differences and Network Analysis for Microbiome Data | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Michael Sohn
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
Current Research Focus: Model-Based Clustering for High-Dimensional, Dependent Data with a Non-Linear Outcome | Thesis Advisor: Dr. Tongtong Wu
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
TJ Weaver
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Entered PhD program: 2023
Hometown: Spencerport, New York
Undergraduate Education: Rochester Institute of Technology, Majors: Applied Statistics with Actuarial Science and Economics, Minor: American Politics
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
Xinyue (Shirley) Mao
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Entered PhD program: 2022
Hometown: Fujian, China
Undergraduate Education: Syracuse University, Major: Mathematics
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
Zhining Sui
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Entered PhD program: 2023
Undergraduate Education: McGill University, Majors: Mathematics and Biology, Minor: Computer Science
Graduate Education: University of Washington, Master of Science: Biostatistics
Statistics MA & Biostatistics MS Students
- Honghong Liu (South China Normal University: Financial Mathematics)
- Josh Geiger (University of Rochester: Biochemistry & Chemistry; MD Program)
- Konnor Herbst (Williams College: Mathematics)
- Yuntian Meng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: Data Science & Big Data Technology)
- Zhili He (Chongqing Normal University: Statistics)