Biostatistics PhD Student Profiles
This is not a complete list of our PhD students (listing optional)
Andy Beck, BS, MS
Fine mapping of mutation rates across the genome
beckandy@umich.edu
Rupam Bhattacharyya, BS, MS
Regression Modelling, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Genetics, Precision Medicine
Jonathan Boss, BS, MS
Multi-pollutant modeling, non-linear interaction selection in the presence of many
environmental contaminants, and statistical inference when exposure data are subject
to multiple detection limits. Applied collaborations in environmental statistics ranging
from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, racial disparities in telomere length, and gestational
duration in pregnant women
Irena Chen, B.A.
Bayesian methods for high dimensional/temporal data
Zhongsheng Chen, BS, MS
Statistical methods for rare variant analysis
Yan-Cheng Chao
Statistical methods for sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) in
small samples. In particular,developing methods to estimate the response rates of
treatments or dynamic treatment regimes in SMART when the outcome of interest is binary.
Application of adaptive designs in SMART.
Elizabeth Chase, BSP.H., MS
Research interests still developing. Thus far, working on penalized regression and
epidemiologic methods, with applications in cancer, HIV, women's health, and health
disparities. Other interests include causal inference, missing data, neighborhood/network
effects, and electronic health records.
Theresa Devasia, BS, MS
Cancer Research, Survival Analysis and Clinical Trials
Allison Furgal, BS, MS, M.A.
Joint models for longitudinal and competing risks survival data, multivariate survival
models, copula models
Boran Gao, MBBS, MPH, MS
Statistical Genetics with interest in variance component analysis using summary statistics.
Tian Gu, BS, MS
Health Data Science, Missing Data, Data Integration, Prediction Models
Sarah Hanks, B.A.
Development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of human genetic
and genomic data.
Wei Hao, BS, MS
Mediation Analysis
Holly Hartman, BS, MS
Clinical trial design, survival analysis, predictive risk modeling, health inequities,
applications in oncology.
Emily Hector, BS, MS
Estimating equations, Composite likelihood, Generalized method of moments, Divide-
and-conquer, Heterogeneous data integration, High-Dimensional data, Correlated data,
Parallel computing.
Abhay Hukku, BS, MS
Development of statistical methodology to address problems in human genetics. Currently
working on new methods for conducting gene-set based analyses.
Kim Hochstedler, BS, MS
Clinical trials, survival analysis, cancer, mental illness
Pin Li, BS, MS
Clinical trials, predictive risk modeling, use of biomarkers to individualize and
adapt treatment.
Lan Luo, BS, MS
Streaming Data Analytics and Real-time Regression Analysis.
Ying Ma, B.M., MS
Statistical Genetics, Single cell data analysis
Pedro Orozco del Pino, BS, MS
Generalizability of Genetic Risk Scores
Adam Peterson, BS, MS
Spatial-Temporal Aggregated Predictors: Methodology and accompanying software (rstap)and
Classifying Built Environment Exposure
Emily Roberts, B.A., MS
Survival analysis and causal inference including surrogate endpoints for clinical
trials.
Stephen Salerno, BS, MS
Statistical methodology and its applications to clinical quality measure development,
health policy, and global public health.
Lulu Shang, BS, MS
Genetics
Yanyi Song, BS, MS
Bayesian method, mediation analysis, statistical genetics
Kelly Speth, BS, MS
Dynamic treatment regimes, observational data, machine learning, cancer biostatistics.
Ming Tang, BS, MS
Missing Data Analysis, Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Nicole Wakim, BS, MS
Clinical trials, Alzheimer's research
Lili Wang, BS, M.S.
Survival analysis, recurrent events, mixed-effects models, and causal inference.
Wenjia Wang, BS, MS
Semiparametric and Joint Modeling of Survival in Cancer Screening Problems
Josh Weinstock, B.A., MS
WGS variant calling; Mendelian Randomization; clonal hematopoiesis
Whiteman, Andrew, BS, MS
Biostatistics; imaging statistics, computational methods
Wenbo Wu, B.A., M.A.
High-dimensional statistics, machine learning and optimization
Jingyue Xi, BS, MS
Statistical Genetics and Single Cell Analysis
Pranav Yajnik, BS, MS
Genetic Epidemiology, GWAS
Guangyu Yang, BS, MS
Estimation of the change points in the broken-stick model. Survival Analysis
Yuan Yang, BS, M.S.
Nonparametric regression, high dimensional data, statistical inference, variable selection,
and survival analysis.
Tsung-Hung Yao
Non-parametric Bayesian Statistics and Bayesian Network Methodology.
Hengshi Yu, BS, MS
Causal inference and statistical learning. Strong interest in the interplay between
stochastic modeling and semi-parametric statistics.
Ketian Yu, BS, M.S.
Statistical Genetics
Youfei Yu, B.A., MS
Causal inference approach for censored data and data with multiple treatments.
Yuqi Zhai, BS, MS
Design and analysis of sample surveys, Bayesian inference and spatial statistics.
Zhang, David Daiwei, BS, MS
Machine learning, statistical computing, statistical genetics, Bayesian methods
Zhangchen Zhao, BS, M.S.
Gene-based tests and efficient resampling methods
Yingchao Zhong, B.A., MS
Kidney transplantation registry data; survival analysis methods
Nina Zhou, BS, MS
Dynamic Treatment Regime, Missing Data and machine learning
Jiaqiang Zhu, BS, MS
Statistical Genetics, Differential Gene Expression Analysis, Differential Methylation
Analysis
Yongwen Zhuang, BS, M.S.
Statistical methods in genetics, computational statistics, machine learning
