Alumni

Doctoral Students

[1] Yuhan Xie, Department of Biostatistics, 2018 – 2023

Current position: Postdoc, Yale University

[2] Yuge Wang, Department of Biostatistics, 2018 – 2023

Current position: Applied Scientist, Uber

[3] Eddie Li, Department of Biostatistics, 2018 – 2023

Current position: Research Data Scientist, Google

[4] Chang Su, Department of Biostatistics, 2018 – 2023

Current position: Assistant Professor, Emory University

[5] Yixuan Ye, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Data Scientist, Google

[6] Yiliang Zhang, Department of Biostatistics, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Algorithm Developer, Hudson River Trading

[7] Xing Wu, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (joint with S. Dellaporta)

Current position: Postdoc, Stanford University

[8] Wei Liu, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Boston Consulting Group

[9] Maryam Zekavat, MD/PhD student, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Resident, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute

[10] Geyu Zhou, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Postdoc, Yale University

[11] Boyang Li, Department of Biostatistics, 2017 – 2022

Current position: Applied Scientist, Uber

[12] Zhaolong Yu, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2016 – 2022

Current position: Data Scientist, Google

[13] Jiawei Wang, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2016 – 2022

Current position: Postdoc, Yale

[14] Wenxuan Deng, Department of Biostatistics, 2016 – 2021

Current position: Data Scientist, Gauntlet Network

[15] Ming Chen, Department of Biostatistics, 2016 – 2021

Current position: Senior Statistician, Johnson & Johnson

[16] Daiwei Tang, Department of Biostatistics, 2016 – 2021

Current position: Primavera Capital Group

[17] Mo Li, Department of Biostatistics, 2015 – 2020

Current Position: Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft Research

[18] Dingjue Ji, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2015 – 2020

Current Position: Algorithm Engineer II, Alibaba

[19] Xiaochen Wang, Department of Biostatistics, 2014 – 2020

Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Facebook

[20] Xinyue Li, Department of Biostatistics, 2014 – 2019

Current Position: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong

[21] Ryan Powles, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with L. Pusztai), 2014 – 2019

Current Position: Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb

[22] Michael Klein, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with D. Stern), 2012 – 2019

Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist, Sema4

[23] Yiyi Liu, Department of Biostatistics, 2013 – 2018

Current Position: Quantitative Researcher, Citedal

[24] Yiming Hu, Department of Biostatistics, 2013 – 2018

Current Position: Quantitative Researcher, The Voleon Group

[25] Li Zeng, Department of Biostatistics, 2013 – 2018

Current Position: Quantitative Researcher, Quantlab

[26] Tianqi Liu, Department of Biostatistics, 2012 – 2017

Current Position: Software Engineer, Google

[27] Qiongshi Lu, Department of Biostatistics, 2012 – 2017

Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin at Madison

[28] Qian Wang, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with J. Gelernter), 2012 – 2017

Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Google

[29] Jiehuan Sun, Department of Biostatistics, 2012 – 2017

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

[30] Chris Fragoso, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with S. Dellaporta), 2012 – 2017

Current Position: Computational Biologist and Data Scientist, Verinomics

[31] Yuwei Cheng, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with M. Gunel), 2011 – 2016

Current position: Data Science Manager, Albertsons Companies

[32] Xiu Huang, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2010 – 2016

Current position: Senior Manager, AbbVie

[33] Zhixiang Lin, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with M. State), 2010 – 2015

Current position: Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

[34] Cong Li, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, 2010 – 2015

Current position: Associate Director, Takeda Inc.

[35] Ken Hui, MD/PhD student in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with J. Cho), 2010 – 2014

Current position: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

[36] Mengjie Chen, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with H. Lin), 2009 – 2014

Current position: Associate Professor, University of Chicago

[37] Gregory Ryslik, Department of Biostatistics, 2009 – 2014

Current position: Executive Vice President, Compass Pathways

[38] Xiaowei Chen, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with F. Slack), 2008 – 2014

Current position: Senior Manager, Amazon

[39] Haisu Ma, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2008 – 2013

Current position: Research Data Scientist, Meta

[40] Jia Kang, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with J. Cho), 2006 – 2011

Current position: Senior Director, Merck

[41] Laura Mustavich, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with K. K. Kidd), 2005 – 2010

Current position: Predictive Modeler, CSAA Insurance Group

[42] Song Huang, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2004 – 2010

Current position: Quantitative Trader, Laurion Capital Management LP

[43] Zheyang Wu, Division of Biostatistics, 2004 – 2009

Current position: Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

[44] David Ballard, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2004 – 2009

Current position: Head of Data Science, Civetta Therapeutics

[45] Hebert Pang, Division of Biostatistics, 2003 – 2008

Current position: Associate Professor, Hong Kong University

[46] Valentin Dinu, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Joint with P. Miller), 2003 – 2007

Current position: Associate Professor, Arizona State University

[47] Yin Liu, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2002 – 2007

Current position: Associate Professor, University of Texas at Houston

[48] Debayan Datta, Biomedical Engineering, 2001 – 2008

Current position: Bioinformatician, qGenomics, Barcelona, Spain

[49] Liang Chen, Biology, 2001 – 2006

Current position: Professor, University of Southern California

[50] Xiaoye Li, Applied Mathematics, 2000 – 2006

Current position: Quantitative Specialist, Societe Generale

[51] Nianjun Liu, Division of Biostatistics (Joint with T. Holford), 1999 – 2005

Current position: Professor, Indiana University

[52] Baolin Wu, Division of Biostatistics, 1999 – 2004

Current position: Professor, University of California at Irvine

[53] Shuang Wang, Division of Biostatistics, 1998 – 2003

Current position: Professor, Columbia University

Postdocs

[1] Biao Cai (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2021 – 2023

Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati

[2] Yunan Wu (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2020

Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

[3] Peifeng Ruan (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2020 – 2022

Current position: Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center

[4] Wei Jiang (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering), 2018 – 2021

Current position: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University

[5] Cecilia Dao (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2017 – 2021

Current position: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University

[6] Kelson Zawack (Ph.D. in Computational Biology), 2017 – 2022

Current position: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University

[7] LiJin Joo (Ph.D. in Biostatistics), 2017 – 2019

Current position: Data Scientist, MD Anderson Cancer Center

[8] Seyoung Park (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2016 – 2018

Current position: Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University

[9] Gang Peng (Ph.D. in Biostatistics), joint with Curt Scharfe, 2015 – 2018

Current position: Assistant Professor, Indiana University

[10] Quan Chen (Ph.D. in Computational Biology), joint with Joel Gelernter, 2015 – 2016

Current position: Sema4

[11] Ying Zhu (Ph.D. in Neurobiology), joint with Nenad Sestan, 2014 – 2017

Current position: Assistant Professor, Fudan University

[12] Liyang Diao (Ph.D. in Computational Biology), 2014 – 2016

Current position: Associate Director, Pyxis Oncology

[13] Ruoqing Zhu (Ph.D. in Biostatistics), joint with Shuangge Ma, 2013 – 2015

Current position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

[14] Tao Wang (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2013 – 2015

Current position: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

[15] Dongjun Chung (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2013 – 2014

Current position: Associate Professor, Ohio State University

[16] Kuang-Yao Lee (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2012 – 2015

Current position: Assistant Professor, Temple University

[17] Can Yang (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, joint with J. Gelernter), 2011 – 2012

Current position: Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

[18] Lin Hou (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2011 – 2012

Current position: Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China

[19] Lisa Chung (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2010 – 2012

Current position: Quantitative Analyst, Google

[20] Gengxin Li (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2010 – 2012

Current position: Associate Professor, University of Michigan at Dearborn

[21] Hongjian Zhu (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2010 – 2012

Current position: Research Fellow/Director, AbbVie

[22] John Ferguson (Ph.D. in Statistics, joint with J. Cho), 2009 – 2011

Current position: Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Medical Biostatistics, University of Galway, Ireland

[23] Xiting Yan (Ph.D. in Computational Biology), 2009 – 2010

Current position: Associate Professor, Yale University

[24] Hyonho Chun (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2009 – 2010

Current position: Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

[25] Xin Qi (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2008 – 2011

Current position: Quantitative Financial Analyst, Bank of America

[26] Min Chen (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2008 – 2010

Current position: Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

[27] Ruiyan Luo (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2007 – 2010

Current position: Associate Professor, Georgia State University

[28] Joon Sang Lee (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2007 – 2011

Current position: Cellular Analysis Group Leader, Sanofi

[29] Joshua Sampson (Ph.D. in Biostatistics), 2007 – 2009

Current position: Senior Science Advisor, FDA

[30] Chatchawit Aporntewan (Ph.D. in Computer Science), 2007 – 2009

Current position: Associate Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

[31] Iryna Lobach (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2006 – 2008

Current position: Senior Principal Biostatistician, Novartis

[32] Jiguo Cao (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2006 – 2007

Current position: Professor and Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada

[33] Eleanne Solorzano Dowd (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2005 – 2007

Current position: Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire

[34] Tiejun Tong (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2005 – 2007

Current position: Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University

[35] Inyoung Kim (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2005 – 2007

Current position: Professor, Virginia Tech University

[36] Zeny Feng (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2004 – 2006

Current position: Professor, University of Guelph, Canada

[37] Tao Huang (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2004 – 2006

Current position: Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China

[38] Weichuan Yu (Ph.D. in Computer Science), 2004 – 2006

Current position: Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

[39] Cheungeun Oh (Ph.D. in Statistics, joint with Dr. Holford), 2003 – 2005

Current position: Associate Professor, New York University

[40] Junfeng Liu (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2003 – 2005

Current position: Professor, Qingdao University, China

[41] Naixin Li (Ph.D. in Biochemistry), 2003 – 2005

Current position: Computer Scientist, Boston area

[42] Nan Lin (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2003 – 2004

Current position: Professor, Washington University

[43] Yinglei Lai (Ph.D. in Computational Biology), 2003 – 2004

Current position: Professor, George Washington University

[44] Zhong Guan (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2001 – 2004

Current position: Professor, Indiana University at South Bend

[45] Deyun Pan (Ph.D. in Plant Physiology), 2001 – 2003

Current position: CTO, Xcinex.com

[46] Jianhua Guo (Ph.D. in Statistics), 2001 – 2003

Current position: President, Beijing Technology and Business University, China

[47] Guohua Zou (Ph.D. in Systems Sciences), 2001 – 2003

Current position: Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Capital Normal University

[48] Qihua Wang (Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics), 2001

Current position: Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

[49] Shuanglin Zhang (Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics), 1999 – 2001

Current position: Henes Professor, Michigan Technological University

[50] Kui Zhang (Ph.D. in Probability), 1999 – 2001

Current position: Dave House Endowed Professor, Michigan Technological University

[51] Jinming Li (Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics), 1999 – 2001

Current position: Professor, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Associate Research Scientists

[1] Dawei Li, 2008 - 2012

Current position: Associate Professor, Texas Tech University

[2] Kangyu Zhang, 2009 - 2013

Current position: Senior Director, CStone Pharmaceuticals

[3] Wei Zheng, 2009 - 2012

Current position: Associate Director, Moderna Therapeutics

[4] Yuping Zhang, 2013 - 2014

Current position: Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

[5] Xiaoqing Yu, 2014 - 2017

Current position: Associate Professor, Moffit Cancer Center