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Past Students

Yang Yu

2017, Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-CH

First Job: Quantitative Strategist at Goldman Sachs

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Email: yangyu at live dot unc dot edu

 

Jingwen Zhang

2018 Biostatistics, UNC-CH

Co-advised with Joseph G. Ibrahim

Dissertation Title: Advanced Methods for Discovering Genetic Markers Associated with High Dimensional Imaging Data

First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Personal page

Email: jingwn dot zhang at gmail dot com

Leo Yu-Feng Liu

2018, Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-CH

Co-advised with Yufeng Liu

Dissertation Title: Advanced Statistical Learning Techniques for High-Dimensional Imaging Data

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Email: leo1986 at unc dot edu

Yue Wang

2018, Biostatistics, UNC-CH

First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Email: taryue at gmail dot com

Liuqing (Jasmine) Yang

2019, Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-CH

First Job: Senior Research Statistician at AbbVie
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Email: ly84 at live dot unc dot edu

Fan Zhou

2019, Biostatistics, UNC-CH

First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

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Email: mlzxzhou at live dot unc dot edu

Chao Huang

2019, Biostatistics

First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at Florida State University

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Email: chaoh at email dot unc dot edu

Huiling Liao

Research Assistant
Statistics

Texas A & M University

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Email: huiling@stat.tamu.ed​u

Yuanyuan Liu

Biostatistics

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Email: Yuanyuan dot Liu at uth dot tmc dot edu

Bingxin Zhao

2020, Biostatistics

First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at Purdue University

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Email: tianwu1947@gmail.com

Chih-Da Wu

2014 (UNC-CH)

 

Yimeng Lu

2006 (Columbia University) Co-advise with Eva Petkova
Title: Clustering Functional Data

First Job: Biostatistician at Novartis

 

Xiaoyan Shi

2008 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Model Diagnostics and Semiparametric Models for Neuroimaging Data

First Job: Biostatistician for software developer at SAS

Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2008
Best Doctor
Dissertation award of Biostatistics department at UNC-CH

 

Yimei Li

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Statistical Analysis of Complex Neuroimaging Data

First Job: Assistant member of Biostatistics at St Johns Children’s hospital

Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2009
Kupper Publication Awards

 

Ramon I. Garcia

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Variable Selection for Models with Missing Data

First Job: Student at a seminary school

Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2009

 

Hyunsoon Cho

2009 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Diagnostic Measures for Statistical Models

First Job: Biostatistician at National Cancer Institute

 

Ying Yuan

2011 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Steven Marron
Title: Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

First Job: Post Doctoral Research Associate at UNC-CH

 

Zhaowei Hua

2011 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with David B. Dunson
Title: Bayesian Analysis of Varying Coefficient Models and Applications

First Job: Biostatistician at Millennium

 

Ja-An (Joanne) Lin

2013 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Statistical Methods for Imaging Genetics

First Job: Biostatistics Manager at Amgen Inc

Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2013

 

Zakaria Khondker

2013 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Bayesian Penalized Methods for High-Dimensional Data

First Job: Senior Biostatistician, Medivation Inc., San Francisco, CA

Honor: ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, ENAR 2013

 

Michelle Miranda

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Bayesian analysis of ultra-high dimensional neuroimaging data

First Job: post doctoral fellow at the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Honor: Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award- UNC Graduate School; academic year 2013-2014

 

Qiang Sun

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advised with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: On High Dimensional Sparse Regression and Its Inference

First Job: Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University
Second Job: Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

 

Shangbang Rao

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Spatially Regularizing High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

First Job: Senior Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford CT

 

Emil Cornea

2014 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Advanced Biostatistical Methods for Curved and Censored Biomedical Data

First Job: Post Doctoral Research Associate at UNC-CH

 

Xiaolei Zhou

2015 (UNC-CH)
Title: Model Assessment for Models with Missing Data

First Job: Director, Biostatistics, at RTI Health Solutions

 

Eunjee Lee

2016 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Advanced Bayesian models for high-dimensional biomedical data

First Job: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
University of Michigan

 

Hojin Yang

2016 (UNC-CH) Co-advise with Joseph G. Ibrahim
Title: Learning Methods in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Based on High-dimensional Features

First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center