Meet our PhD Students

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Anna Barefield

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in mathematics, Belmont University
  • MS in mathematics, Boise State University

Research Interests

causal inference, survival analysis

anb652@pitt.edu

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Feier Chang

admitted 2023

Education

  • master's degree in biostatistics, Duke University
  • bachelor's degree in mathematics, Sichuan University

Research Interests

clinical trial design, real world evidence

fec54@pitt.edu

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Yiwen Dong

admitted 2023

Education

  • MS in biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
  • MS in math, Soochow University

Research Interests

wearable devices data and high dimensional data analysis

yid69@pitt.edu

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Stephen Glass

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in statistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • MS in statistics, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

survival analysis, missing data, clinical trials, ecological momentary assessment data

svg13@@pitt.edu

Penghui Huan
Penghui (Gabriel) Huang

admitted 2022

Education

BS in statistics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Research interests

statistical genetics/genomics, Bayesian models, statistical learning

huangpenghui@pitt.edu

Ying-Ju Lai
Ying-Ju Lai

admitted 2022

Education

  • BS in statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • MS in biostatistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research interests

high-throughput genomic data, statistical learning

yil346@pitt.edu

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Caroline Layding

admitted 2023

Education

  • BS in economics and mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

clinical trials, causal inference, health policy applications

cjl110@pitt.edu

Danyang Li
Danyang Li

admitted 2022

Education

  • BS in physics - oceanic and atmospheric science, Peking University
  • MS in statistics, University of Washington

Research interests

causal inference, confounding problem, precision medicine, spatio-temporal analysis

dal274@pitt.edu

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Wenzhou Lin

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in statistics, Sun Yat-sen University
  • MS in biostatistics, University of Michigan

Research Interests

statistical genetics

wel235@pitt.edu

Chen Liu
Chen Liu

admitted 2023

Education

  • Renmin University of China
  • University of Michigan

Research Interests

statistical modeling, omics data

chen.liu@pitt.edu

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Jiaqian Liu

admitted 2023

Education

  • master's degree in biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • bachelor's degree in animal science, Nanjing Agricultural University

jil289@pitt.edu

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Lufeiya Liu

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in mathematics and statistics, University at Buffalo

Research Interests

EHR data, cancer, survival analysis

lufeiyall@pitt.edu

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Tianshu Liu

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in biological sciences, Sichuan University
  • BE in software engineering, Sichuan University

Research Interests

statistical learning, causal inference

til173@pitt.edu

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Edwin Lu

admitted 2024

Education

  • bachelor's degree from Cornell University
  • master's degree from Villanova University

Research Interests

adaptive trial design for oncology immunotherapy

edl82@pitt.edu

Yuxin Ren
Yuxin Ren

admitted 2022

Education

  • BS in applied statistics, RIT

Research interests

neuroimaging, longitudinal data analysis

yur11@pitt.edu

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Yumeng (Jessica) Shao

admitted 2023

Education

  • BS in mathematics, University College London
  • MS in computational and applied mathematics from University of Chicago

Research Interests

high dimensional data, single cell

yus221@pitt.edu

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Yuxin Shi

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in mathematics application - probability and statistics, University of Toronto
  • MS in biostatistics, University of Toronto

Research Interests

genomics, ML methods application, survival analysis

yus214@pitt.edu

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Ned Smith

admitted 2023

Education

BS, St. Lawrence University

Research Interests

statistical learning and survival analysis

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Shiyue Tao

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in biostatistics, Nanjing Medical University
  • MS in biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

statistical genetics, single-cell genomics

shiyuetao@pitt.edu

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Hao Wang

admitted 2024

Education

  • BS in economics and statistics, Jinan University
  • BS in applied math with statistics, University of Birmingham
  • MS in statistical science, Duke University

Research Interests

statistical genomics, causal inference

haw291@pitt.edu

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Sarah Wang

admitted 2023

Education

  • master's degree in biostatistics, University of Columbia
  • bachelor's degree in statistics, University of Toronto

Research interests

omics data, high-dimensional clustering and statistical computing

yaw130@pitt.edu

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Zhiyi Yang

admitted 2023

Education

  • master's degree in biostatistics, University of Michigan
  • bachelor's degree in public health, Wuhan University

Research Interests

causal inference, machine learning in clinical trials

zhy133@pitt.edu

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RuoFei Yin

admitted 2023

Education

  • master's degree in biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • bachelor's degree in bioengineering, Tianjin Medical University

Research Interests

omics data, circadian analysis

ruy28@pitt.edu

Xinyi Zhang
Xinyi (Joyce) Zhang

admitted 2022

Education

  • MS in statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests

diagnostic tests, orofacial clefting 

xiz288@pitt.edu