Team
Some of the wonderful team members I am fortunate to work with!
Hiring postdoctoral fellow to work on statistical methods for family-based genetics studies.
Interested in (Bio)Statistics/Epidemiology projects/thesis with applications to Human Genetics?
Feel free to contact me.
Current trainees
Jiachen Zhang
ScM 2023, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH
Currently a Research Data Analyst in the team.
Interested in Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and general methodology in genetic epidemiology.
Yuekai Ji
PhD student, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH
Interested in cardiovascular diseases genetics and the application of multi trait design to identify novel genetic variants associated with complex traits.
Jiwon Park
MS 2017, Statistics, KNU, South Korea
PhD 2023, Statistics, Univ. of Connecticut
Post-doctoral fellow, JHSPH
Interested in statistical genetics methodologies and their application in discovering the associations between shared genetic regions and multiple traits.
Former trainees
Shengjun You
ScM 2023, Biostatistics, JHSPH
Interested in applying statistical methods to study association between genetic variants and orofacial cleft.
Wenhao Song
MSE 2023, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, JHU
Interested in statistical genetics methodology, neurodegenerative disease, and identifying rare variants.
Sowmya Venkataraghavan
MHS 2019, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH;
PhD 2022, Genetic Epi., JHSPH
Research Data Analyst 2023-23, JHSPH
Interested in autoimmune diseases, clefts, and in identifying genetic variation of multiple complex traits.
Jennifer R. Wang
MD 2010, Univ. of Toronto;
ScM 2015, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH;
PhD 2022, Genetic Epi., JHSPH
Interested in thyroid cancer and its subtypes.
Kali (Duke) P. Chowdhury
PhD 2021, Management (Mathematical Statistics), Univ. of California Irvine;
Post-doctoral fellow, JHSPH
Interested in biostatistics and methodology in genetic epidemiology.
Yuangen (Allen) Liu
MHS 2019, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH
Interested in genetic variation of COPD and secondary traits.
Wanying Zhang
ScM 2019, Genetic Epidemiology, JHSPH
Interested in detecting genes and environmental factors contributing to cleft lip, cleft palate and Alzheimer's disease.