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Ph.D. Students:
Priyanjali Bukke (4th year)
Jingwen Gu (5th year)
(George Mason University)
Queensley Chinedu (2nd year)
John Pendergrass (2nd year)
Priyanjali works on post-linkage data analysis.
Co-advised with Brady West (U Michigan).
Supported by NSF Grants #2120318, 2411270.
Jingwen works on predictive modeling problems for brain aneurysm research.
MS Students:
Rachel Yu (William & Mary)
Undergraduate Students:
Julie Huang
Isabella Liu
Haider Qureshi
Prospective Students: Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in working with me.
Alumni:
5. He Qi, PhD in Statistical Science, Spring 2025, George Mason University
Dissertation title: Approaches to Likelihood Ratio Estimation for Forensic Evidence Interpretation
4. Lt. Col. Daniel Edwin Hill, PhD in Statistical Science, Spring 2025, George Mason University
Supported by a scholarship from the AFOSR.
Dissertation title: Sparse K-Means Compression for Federated Machine Learning and Linear Regression Using Sketched and Quantized Predictors
3. Zhenbang Wang, PhD in Statistical Science, Fall 2022, George Mason University
Supported by NSF grants #1849876 and #2120318.
Dissertation title: Strategies for Mitigating the Effect of Mismatch Error in the Analysis of Linked Data
2. Xiaochen Zhu, PhD in Statistical Science, Fall 2020, George Mason University
Recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Ph.D. student award of the Washington Statistical Society.
Dissertation title: Contributions to ROC Curve and Likelihood Ratio Estimation for Forensic Evidence Interpretation
1. Glenn Hui, PhD in Statistical Science, Fall 2020, George Mason University
Dissertation title: Data Compression in Statistical Learning by Means of Quantized Random Projection
Other Past PhD Students:
Shixue Zhang (September 2021 - December 2025, advised by Johnathan Auerbach, Statistics@GMU
I co-mentored Shixue, and was a member of her Ph.D. committee. Shixue worked on low-rank matrix/tensor models for causal inference.
Felicitas Bijari (née Detmer) (May 2017 - September 2019, advised by Juan Cebral, Bioengineering@GMU)
I co-mentored Felicitas, and was a member of her Ph.D. committee. Felicitas worked on predictive models for aneurysm rupture.
Past MS Students:
Sami Adam (MS Statistics, January 2026 - May 2026)
Jaelyn Do (MS Statistics, September 2025 - May 2026)
Dan Hartig (MS student in Statistical Science@GMU, May 2017 - December 2018)
MS thesis title: "A regression model for predicting rail transit ridership at the station level". [Dan's github]
Past Undergraduate Students:
Medha Chhetri (Stats/Biology Double Major, January 2026 - May 2026)
Suzu Paudel (Stats/CS Double Major, January 2026 - May 2026)
Divya Ramakrishnan (Stats, January 2026 - May 2026)
Mia Tan (Stats/Neuroscience Double Major, Januart 2026 - May 2026)
Rachel Yu (Math/CS Double Major, November 2025 - May 2026)
Jiaming Zhang (Math/Stats Double Major, June 2025 - May 2026)
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