People
Current Group Members
Dr. Sharon Xie, Principal Investigator and Professor of Biostatistics
Ganesh Chandrasekaran, Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at Penn
Dr. Abby Lau, postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Yidan Shi, postdoctoral fellow
Omar Vazquez, Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at Penn
Yanping Xiong, M.S., senior data manager
Alumni
Previous Ph.D. students who completed Ph.D. dissertation under Dr. Xie’s supervision:
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.
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
Lior Rennert, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation title: Statistical Methods for Truncated Survival Data
Current job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University
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
Carrie Caswell, PhD, 2020
Dissertation Title: Measurement Error and Missing Data Methods in Biomarker Research
Current job: Principal Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Hayley Locke, Ph.D., 2023
Dissertation Title: Missing Data and Measurement Error Methods for Left-Truncated Survival Data
First job: Senior Scientist, Biostatistics at Merck
Previous postdoctoral fellows under Dr. Xie’s supervision:
Panpan Zhang, Ph.D
Current job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Daniel Baer, Ph.D.
Current job: Senior Scientist in Biostatistics, Merck
Previous undergraduate students who did research under Dr. Xie’s supervision:
1. Sarah Weinshel, B.A.
Position after graduation: Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge