PhD students
Arya Muralidharan, Statistics, Rice University. Joint with Marina Vannucci. 2025-present.
Yangqianzi Jiang, Statistics, Rice University. Joint with Marina Vannucci. 2025-present.
Grace Nie, Statistics, Rice University. 2024-present
Emily Oppold, Statistics, Rice University. Joint with Ryan Sun. 2024-present.
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
Postdocs
Satabdi Saha. 2022-present
Doctoral alumni
Yangfan Ren, now Data Scientist at Meta. PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2025. Joint with Marina Vannucci. Thesis title: "Flexible Bayesian models for varying-effects regression."
Zachary Wooten, now Instructor of Biostatistics at St. Jude's. Statistics, Rice University. 2024. Thesis title: "Functional and spatial statistical methods with applications in radiotherapy imaging." Recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award, 2021
Licai Huang, now Statistician at Abbvie. PhD, Quantitative Sciences, 2023. Thesis title: "Statistical modeling approaches for the inference of cancer mechanisms."
Sarah Robinson, first position - 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
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 Associate 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, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, 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, Population Health Sciences, 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
Suchi Mehta, Data Science Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentee, Summer 2024
Kendall Lemons, now PhD student at Weill Cornell Medicine. Summer intern while at Prairie View A&M University, Summer 2021