PhD students

A PhD candidate is a student who has passed their qualifying exam and is now focusing on dissertation research.

  • Kun Bai

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics (Health Data Science Concentration), University of Michigan; BS, Statistics, China University of Mining and Technology

     

  • Marisa Blackman

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Leena Choi

    Post-baccalaureate studies, Mathematics, Smith College; BA, Music (minor in Mathematics), The College of New Jersey

    Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: president, 2023–2024; vice president, 2022–2023; social chair, 2021–2022

  • Alexis Fleming

    PhD candidate

    BA, Statistics and Financial Economics, Gustavus Adolphus College

  • Xin Gai

    PhD student

    MS, Statistics, Duke University

  • Megan Taylor Jones

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Simon Vandekar

    BPH, Public Health (minor in Mathematics), University of Kentucky

    Lead TA, 2024–2025

  • Yeji Ko

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Benjamin French

    MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; BS, Statistics, University of Michigan

     

  • Haoyue Li

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina; BS, Neurobiology and Applied Mathematics, University of California San Diego

  • MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Public Health, Shandong University

     

     

  • Ashley Mullan

    PhD student

    MS, Statistics, Wake Forest University; Graduate Certificate in Data Science, Wake Forest University; BS, Applied Mathematics, and BA, Philosophy (minors in Computer Science and Finance, concentration in Data Science), University of Scranton

  • Yunbi Nam

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Mathematics and Economics, Sogang University
     

  • Danni Shi

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Statistics (minors in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), University of Washington

    Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: secretary, 2024–2025

  • Lan Shi

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Dandan Liu

    MS, Applied Statistics, University of Michigan; BS, Statistical Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: first-year liaison / outreach chair, 2023–2024

     

  • Joshua Slone

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Bryan Shepherd

    MS, Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania

  • Hao Wu

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, University of Michigan; BS, Food Science / Data Science / Architecture, China Agricultural University

  • Jiangmei Ruby Xiong

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Simon Vandekar

    MS, Statistics, Columbia University; BS, Actuarial Studies, The Australian National University

    Biostatistics Graduate Student Association: treasurer, 2022–2023; vice president, 2023–2024; president, 2024–2025

     

  • Bailu "Lucy" Yan

    PhD candidate

    MS, Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, Southern Methodist University; BS, Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing)

     

  • Yan Yan

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Hakmook Kang

    PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; MS, Biostatistics, Middle Tennessee State University; BS, Biotechnology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

     

     

  • Lydia Yao

    PhD student

    BS, Data Science and Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University

  • Haoyang Yi

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, Columbia University; BS, Resources and Environmental Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

     

  • Siwei Zhang

    PhD candidate

    Advisor: Yaomin Xu

    MS, Biostatistics, Duke University; BS, Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai

     

     

  • Xinyu Zhang

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, Yale University; BS, Statistics, SWUFE (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), China

  • Ningkun Zhou

    PhD student

    MS, Biostatistics, Yale University; BS, Statistics and Biology, University of Wisconsin–Madison