Lab Members

Abdus S. Wahed, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Co-Lead
Professor and Associate Chair
Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester
abdus_wahed@urmc.rochester.edu

Dr. Yu Cheng
Co-Investigator and Co-Lead
Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Statistics
University of Pittsburgh
yucheng@pitt.edu

Peter F. Thall, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Anise J. Sorrell Professor of Biostatistics M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Youngjoo Cho, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Statistics
Konkuk University

Ruitao Lin
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Graduate Students

Annalise Chang
Ph.D. Student in Statistics
University of Pittsburgh

Jiazhi He
Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
University of Pittsburgh

Xinyue (Shirley) Mao
Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Dynamic Treatment Regimes, Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

Nathan Provost
Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester

Leshan Song
Ph.D. Student in Statistics
University of Pittsburgh

Xupeng Tang
Ph.D. Student in Statistics
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Dynamic Treatment Regimes, SMART, Causal Inference

Bach (Mark) Tran
Ph.D. Student in Statistics
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART)
SMART-LAB Stakeholder Collaborators
- Julie Bauman, M.D.
- Ian Cero, Ph.D.
- Joyce Chang, Ph.D.
- Jordan Karp, M.D.
- Doug Landsittel, Ph.D.
- Somia Lopa, Ph.D.
- Gong Tang, Ph.D.
- Laurie Taylor, M.S. (Independent Consultant)
- Kimberly van Orden, Ph.D.
- Shah Yunus, Ph.D. (Independent Consultant)
SMART-LAB Alumni
- Ling-Wan Chen (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), FDA
- Wentao Feng (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Pfizer
- Jesse Hsu (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
- Jin Hui Ko (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)
- Geoffrey Johnson (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)
- Kelley Kidwell (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Senior Associate Dean, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
- Honghong Liu (M.A. in Statistics, University of Rochester), Ph.D. Student in Statistics, North Carolina State University
- Lingyun Lyu (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), BMS
- Charlie Meng (M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Rochester), Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Delaware
- Sachiko Miyahara (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Research Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Semhar Ogbagaber (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Lilly
- Xinyu Tang (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Amgen
- Andrew Topp (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), AbbVie
- Junyao Wang (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Zi Wang (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Lecturer, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Liwen Wu (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Xue Yang (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Postdoctoral fellow, Indiana University
- Idil Yavuz (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Associate Professor, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey