Team
Team
Current
PhD Students
Name
Liying Chen
Research Topic
PhD student in Biostatistics (2020+) developing graphical models for spatial omics data. Distinguished Student Paper Award, ENAR 2025.
Qingzhi Liu
PhD student in Biostatistics (2020+; co-advised with Gen Li) developing statistical models for precision oncology and psychiatric mood data. Winner of Distinguished Student Paper Award, ENAR 2024.
Jessica Aldous
PhD student in Biostatistics (2023+; co-advised with Michele Peruzzi) developing spatial models for multi-resolution spatial multiplex imaging data.
Grant Carr
PhD student in Biostatistics (2023+; co-advised with Jian Kang) developing spatial clustering models for spatial multiplex imaging data .
Maria Murphy
PhD student in Biostatistics (2024+; co-advised with Dylan Cable ) developing spatial models for spatial transcriptomics data.
Postdocs
Name
Junsouk Choi
Research Topic
Postdoctoral fellow (2023+; co-mentored by Jian Kang), working on spatial clustering models for spatial omic data
Alumni
Postdoc Alumni
David Rossell Ribera | Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Statistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Suprateek Kundu | Associate Professor, Biostatistics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Wenting Wang | Global Head of Biomarker Statistics, Sanofi
Lin Zhang | Associate Professor, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Bruce Bugbee | Computational Statistician, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sayantan Banerjee | Assistant Professor, Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management
Min Jin Ha | Professor, Biostatistics, Yonsei University
Priyam Das | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hojin Yang | Assistant Professor, Statistics, Pusan National University
Abhishek Saha | Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health
Shariq Mohammed | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Boston University
Moumita Chakraborty | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, The University of Texas Medical Branch
Satwik Acharyya | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
PhD Alumni (as primary advisor/co-advisor)
Rajesh Talluri | 2011 | Co-advised with B.K. Mallick | Texas A&M University | Current Position: Associate Professor, Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Lin Zhang | 2012 | Co-advised with B.K. Mallick | Texas A&M University | Current Position: Associate Professor, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Yang Ni | 2015 | Co-advised with F. Stingo | Rice University | Current Position: Associate Professor, Statistics, Texas A&M Univeristy
Shabnam Azadeh | 2015 | Co-advised with B.P. Hobbs | UT School of Public Health | Current Position: Biostatistician, FDA
Elizabeth Jennings | 2015 | Co-advised with J.S. Morris and R.J. Carroll | Texas A&M University | Current Position: Teaching Associate Professor, Statistics, Rice University
Soyeon Kim | 2015 | Co-advised with J.J. Lee | Rice University | Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Youyi Zhang | 2018 | Co-advised with J.S. Morris | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Current Position: Principal Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson
Neel Desai | 2021 | Co-advised with J.S. Morris | Rice University | Current Position: Principal Biostatistician, Novartis
Rupam Bhattacharya | 2023 | Co-advised with N. Henderson | University of Michigan | Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Medical School
Tsung-Hung Yao | 2023 | Co-advised with Z. Wu | University of Michigan | Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Nathaniel Osher | 2025 | Co-advised J. Kang | University of Michigan | Current Position: Biostatistician, Servier Pharmaceuticals
Masters Alumni
Lori Jackson | 2007 | UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Vinicius Bonato | 2010 | UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences | Current Position: Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer
Sunyi Chi | 2020 | University of Michigan | Current Position: Applied Scientist, Amazon
Liying Chen | 2020 | University of Michigan | Current Position: PhD Student, University of Michigan
Qingzhi Liu | 2020 | University of Michigan | Current Position: PhD Student, University of Michigan
Justice Akuoko-Frimpong |2023 | University of Michigan | Current Position: PhD Student, University of Michigan
Kirill Sabitov |2023 | University of Michigan | Current Position: MS Student, University of Michigan