Current Group Members

Alumni

Previous Ph.D. students who completed Ph.D. dissertation under Dr. Xie’s supervision:

1. Matthew White, Ph.D., 2012

Dissertation title: Statistical Methods for Evaluating Diagnostic Biomarkers in the Presence of Measurement Error;

First job: Faculty (Instructor), Harvard Medical School.

2. Jarcy Zee, Ph.D., 2014

Dissertation title: Survival Analysis with Uncertain Endpoints Using an Internal Validation Subsample

Current job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania

3. Lior Rennert, Ph.D., 2018

Dissertation title: Statistical Methods for Truncated Survival Data

Current job: Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University

4. Leah Suttner, Ph.D., 2019

Dissertation Title: Statistical Methods for Censored and Missing Data in Survival and Longitudinal Analysis

Current job: Senior Scientist, Biostatistics at Merck

5. Carrie Caswell, PhD, 2020

Dissertation Title: Measurement Error and Missing Data Methods in Biomarker Research

Current job: Principal Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

6. Hayley Locke, Ph.D., 2023

Dissertation Title: Missing Data and Measurement Error Methods for Left-Truncated Survival Data

First job: Offered Senior Scientist, Biostatistics at Merck (Declined to raise children)

7. Ganesh Chandrasekaran, Ph.D., 2025

Dissertation Title: Methods for Measurement Error Correction in the Lasso

Current job: Principal Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Previous postdoctoral fellows under Dr. Xie’s supervision:

1. Panpan Zhang, Ph.D

Current job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University 

2. Daniel Baer, Ph.D.

Current job: Senior Scientist in Biostatistics, Merck 

3. Yidan Shi, Ph.D.

Current job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

4. Abby Lau, Ph.D.

Current job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Lafayette College