News

News in 2026

August: Our manuscript entitled "Robust inverse probability weighted estimators for doubly truncated Cox regression with closed-form standard errors" (Vazquez O and Xie SX, 2025) was recognized by Lifetime Data Analysis as one of its top downloaded research articles  for the journal  in 2025. Omar and Sharon were recognized at the Lifetime Data Science Section Meeting  of the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, MA. 

News in 2025

July: Dr. Jing Wang joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Jing received his PhD in Statistics from University of Connecticut. A warm welcome, Jing!

News in 2024

December: Dr. Abby Lau will join Lafayette College as Assistant Professor of Statistics starting July 2025. Congratulations, Abby!

November: Dr. Jianchu Chen joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Jianchu received her PhD in Statistics from University of Waterloo. A warm welcome, Jianchu!

March: Dr. Yidan Shi will join Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine as Assistant Professor starting July 2024. Congratulations, Yidan!

January: Omar Vazquez - a second year Biostatistics PhD student advised by Sharon Xie , won the Student Paper Award from the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section. Omar will present the winning paper - entitled "Robust Inverse Probability Weighted Estimators for Doubly Truncated Cox Regression with Closed-form Standard Errors" - at this year's JSM in Portland, OR. Congratulations, Omar!

News in 2023

October: Lab alum, Lior Rennert, was awarded a 17.5 million dollar grant by the CDC to develop and implement modeling frameworks for disease outbreaks and analytics.  For more details, please see the full news release. Congratulations, Lior!

News in 2022

September: Dr. Abby Lau joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Abby received her PhD in Statistics from University of Connecticut. A warm welcome, Abby!

January: Dr. Panpan Zhang will join Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University as Assistant Professor starting September 2022. Congratulations, Panpan!

January: Sarah Weinshel wins Churchill Scholarship. She will pursue a master of philosophy in genetics in the University of Cambridge starting fall 2022. Congratulations, Sarah! 

News in 2021

September 1: Dr. Yidan Shi, joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Yidan received her PhD in Statistics from University of Waterloo. A warm welcome, Yidan!

May 5: Lab alum,  Lior Rennert, received Clemson University's Junior Researcher of the Year Award. Congratulations, Lior! 

May 2: Sharon Xie has been elected as Secretary 2022-2024 for the American Statistical Association Lifetime Data Science Section. 

May 1: Dr. Daniel Baer joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Daniel has just received his PhD in Biostatistics from Medical University of South Carolina. A warm welcome, Daniel!

March 26: Sarah Weinshel has received the Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations, Sarah!

March 9: Biometrics has just published our new statistical method manuscript about Cox regression model under dependent truncation. Click here to view the article.