05/14/2026

Apekshya Ghimire won the UNR SPH Academic Achievement Award. Congratulation!

04/22/2026

Anthony Yun won the IDeA Netowkrs of Biomedical Reserch Excellence (INBRE) Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award. Congratulation, Tony!

04/04/2026

At the 2026 Pack Prompt-A-Thon: Wolf Pack vs. AI, the team AI for Population Health with members Apekshya Ghimire (Health Analytic and Biostat MS), Eric M. Torres (Environmental Sci Health PhD), and Reshika Rimal (Health Analytic and Biostat MS), won first place in the Public Health problem set. This challenge, developed by Dr. So Young Ryu, focused on vaccination rates, biostatistics, health equity, and communication. Among 18 domain-specific problem sets, the Public Health problem set attracted the largest participation, with 9 teams competing. Congratulations to the team AI for Population Health!

04/29/2025

Anthony Yun presented his posters at the Wolf Pack Discoveries Symposium. The poster was titled "Detecting DifferentialProteins in Paired Proteomics Studies for Clear Cell Renal Cell Cardinoma".

05/28/2024

Congratulations on your graduation and your jobs, Carley Henke (MS student), Kurtis Bertauche (Undergraduate student), and Alex Choi (High school intern)! Carley will work as an Associate Data Analyst at Renown Hospital. Kurtis will work as an Associate Software Enginner at Veeva Systems. Alex will start his undergraduate study at Williams College with a full scholarship. 

08/02/2023

Congratulations, Alex Choi (high school student) and Carley Henke (mentor)! Alex won the honorable mention for the national American Statistics Association Visualization K-12 Poster Competition! His poster title was "How Has Climate Change Affected Fish Growth in Alsaka Fisheries?". (See https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2023/08/01/2023posterproject/ for details.)

05/08/2023

Congratulation, Gabriella! Gabriella successfully defended her professional paper project: "Use of a linear mixed model for differential protein detection in paired proteomics studies". 

05/02/2023

Congratulation, Gabriella! Gabriella got a full-time biostatistician position at Kaiser Permanente. 

03/31/2023

Our high school intern, Alexander Choi won 1st place in NV-ASA (Nevada Americal Statistical Association) K-12 Poster Competition (Grade 10-12 category). Carley Henke (our first-year MS Biostat student) mentored Alex in this contest. Congratulations to both Alex and Carley!

01/11/2023

As a part of our effort for K-12 outreach, Gabriella Goodwin (our second-year MS Biostat student) published her educational article at Frontiers for Young Minds. Congratulation, Gabi! 

08/29/2022

Carley Henke won UNR Graduate Dean's Merit Scholarship. Congratulation, Carley!

08/26/2022

Kurtis Bertauche won a student travel award at ACM SIGKDD 2022. Congratulations, Kurtis!

06/28/2022

Kurtis Bertauche's paper on retention time prediction for PTM peptides was accepted at the top data mining conference ACM SIGKDD. Congratulations, Kurtis!

05/13/2022

Congratulations on Sijia's graduation and award! Sija Qiu won an SPH Academic Excellence Award. We also wish all the best for Sijia's biostatistician career at Kaiser Permanente!

05/06/2022

Carley Henke will join Ryu Computational Group this Fall. Carley received a bachelor's degree in Statistics (honors) and Math (honors) from Michigan State University and a master's degree in Education from the University of Missouri. Welcome, Carley!

04/29/2022

Congratulation, Jake Tucker! Jake will graduate this May. Jake got a full-time computer scientist position at Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama. 

04/25/2022

Kurtis Bertauche and Korben DiArchangel presented their posters at Wolf Pack Discoveries Symposium. The presented posters were "Predicting Retention Times of PTM peptides using Machine Learning Techniques" by Kurtis and "Mass Spectrometry Educational Game" by Korben. 

03/30/2022

Congratulation, Sijia Qiu! Sijia successfully defended her professional paper project: "Missing Value Imputation Methods for Mass Spectrometry Data". 

01/18/2022

Congratulation, Sijia Qiu! Sijia got a full-time biostatistician position at Kaiser Permanente. 

11/12/2021

Congratulation, Jake Tucker! Jake got an internship position at Scientific Games.

11/10/2021

Congratulation, Sijia Qiu! Sijia won UNR Graduate Dean's Merit Scholarship in Fall 2021. 

11/08/2021

Riley's poster abstract about visualizing PTM effects on peptide retention time in mass spectrometry data was accepted at BIBM 2021. 

10/22/2021

Congratulation, Gabriella Goodwin! Gabriella won UNR Graduate Dean's Merit Scholarship in Fall 2021.

09/30/2021 

Congratulation, Gabriella! Gabriella (First-year MS Biostatistics Student) won a Nevada IDEA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Scientific Core Service Award for her PTM educational video project.

07/14/2021

The manuscript "Likelihood-based bacterial identification approach for bimicrobial mass spectrometry data" was accepted for publication in Annals of Applied Statistics.

06/29/2021

Ryu Computational Group has received a supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation. The fund will support a full-time post-baccalaureate student who will develop bioinformatic tools. 

04/26/2021

Ryu Computational Group has received a Research Enhancement Grant from UNR Research & Innovation. The funds will be used to train biostatistics/bioinformatics students and purchase computer equipment. 

04/12/2021

Ryu Computational Group has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation! The funds will go towards research that develops PTM bioinformatic algorithms & tools. The award will also support outreach activities for high school students.