Students
Biostatistics students in both the Masters and PhD programs are immersed in the division, assisting on high-impact national and international research projects, supporting the Division’s course offerings, and conducting their own research. Our students work closely with faculty advisers; with a student-to-faculty ratio that is one of the lowest among leading Biostatistics programs, students are able to get the training and personal attention they need to maximize their potential.
Students are actively involved in organizing both academic and social activities. The Student Seminar Series provides an opportunity to present and discuss work in progress, practice presentations for upcoming conferences, and learn new computing skills. Student seminars are typically closed to faculty. For a list of upcoming and previous student seminar presentations as well as other student resources, visit our Biostatistics Student Seminar page.
Meet Our Students (2024 – 2025)
| Andres Esteban Arguedas Leiva |
| Jordan Aron |
| Martha Barnard |
| Rui Cao |
| Matthew Caputo |
| Larry Chen |
| Christian Coffman |
| Simion De |
| Chloe Falke |
| Jamie Forschmiedt |
| Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar |
| Nicolas Gonzalez-Granda |
| Caleb Griffiths |
| Jiayi Hu |
| Zuofu Huang |
| Lingfeng Huo |
| Gregory Isaac |
| Ellery Island |
| Ziren Jiang |
| Bhargob Kakoty |
| Zhiyu Kang |
| Eunsan Kim |
| Gleb Kozienko |
| Michelle Leeberg |
| Jiakun Li |
| Jialing Liu |
| Limeng Liu |
| Yang Liu |
| Anja Logan |
| Han Lu |
| Mykhaylo Malakhov |
| Tanvi Mehta |
| Yuzi Mi |
| Alyssa Montgomery |
| Nicholas Musinguzi |
| Aidan Neher |
| Nidhi Pai |
| Nirali Patel |
| Sydney Presler |
| Zexi Rao |
| Victoria Rose |
| Nitya Shah |
| Milena Silva |
| Josey Sorenson |
| Apostolos Stamenos |
| Brent Strong |
| Aparajita Sur |
| Lindsey Turner |
| Leif Verace |
| Jiuzhou Wang |
| Wei Wang |
| Jack Wolf |
| Tiankai Xie |
| Kaifeng Yang |
| Can Zhang |
| Lujun Zhang |
| Sinian Zhang |
| Chen Zhao |
| Hengcheng Zhu |
| Amanda Brunton |
| Matthew Cao |
| Changfu Chen |
| Lap Pui Chung |
| Jennifer Czachura |
| Maria DeCesare |
| Jiaying Dong |
| Yuanlin Feng |
| Ryan Gavin |
| Adam Genda |
| Duolan Han |
| Xiaowen Han |
| Joshua Hebeisen |
| Haoyun Hou |
| Cheryl Huang |
| Aswin Jayaraaman |
| Yanwei Jin |
| Tyler Jubenville |
| Shuheng Kong |
| Yanqing Kong |
| Mark Lamin |
| Jonghyeok Lee |
| Sarah Leismer |
| Hongdi Li |
| Minyu Li |
| Yiheng Liu |
| Alise Mendoza |
| Devon Nerstad |
| Andrew Ness |
| Elizabeth Nicholas |
| Jon Ong |
| Keo Pangan |
| Benjamin Pedersen |
| Alex Pemberton |
| Shika Rai |
| Hina Rattu |
| Chelsea Reed |
| Tyler Richter |
| Christine Rinehart |
| Ruby Roettger |
| Duke Ruan |
| Aparna Srinivasan |
| Elise Steichen |
| Siming Sun |
| Bo Wang |
| Jianfeng Wang |
| Jiaying Wu |
| Lei Xuan |
| Zheqi Yin |
| Jialiang Yuan |
| Hanyin Zhou |
| Zechen Zhou |
| Abigail Alwin |
| Jonathan Barnes |
| Jennifer Bleifus |
| Michala Carlson |
| Emmanuel Chea |
| Meghan Devlin |
| Jendayi Dixon |
| Sennai Eskinder |
| Ashley Farnum |
| Lilian Fogland |
| Dominic Gomez |
| Anne Hackman |
| Lana Hantzsch |
| Bibin Joseph |
| Taylor Lanz |
| Kim-Thao Le |
| Samuel Lee |
| Jiayu Lin |
| Taichi Miyazaki |
| Hamza Mohamoud |
| Alyssa Mondelli |
| Tenzin Nyima |
| Olusewa Obadiya |
| Katrin O’Grady |
| Morgan Pak |
| Brandon Payne |
| Olivia Plamann |
| Lechen Shen |
| Lina Thiel |
| Sophie Wiitala |
| Lauren Witty |
| Selam Woldegerima |
| Mary Yeboah |
Upcoming Student Presentations
No upcoming presentations at this time.
Recent Student Presentations
| Date | Name | Adviser | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2025 | Lappui Chung | Julian Wolfson | From Raw Electronic Health Records to Causal Effects: Investigating Therapeutic Inertia and Glycemic Control with G-Methods |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Siming Sun | Tom Murray | Analysis of Technology and Questionnaire Derived Measures in an Early Phase Trial Evaluating Exercise Priming of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Hina Rattu | Lynn Eberly | Characterizing the Relationships Between Globus Pallidus Local Field Potentials and Gait Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease using Machine Learning & Functional Data Analysis: A Case Study |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jordan Aron | Mark Fiecas & Paul Albert | A Joint Mixture of Hidden Markov Models for Actigraphy Data |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Jiaying Dong | Benjamin Langworthy | Evaluating Martingale and Counting Process-Based Covariance and Correlation Estimators for Multivariate Survival Data |
| May 29, 2025 | Michelle Leeberg | Tom Murray & Xianghua Luo | Flexible Parametric Bayesian Estimators and Graphical Methods for Win Probability Measures in Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoints |
| May 21, 2025 | Jack Wolf | Joe Koopmeiners & David Vock | Methods for Leveraging Secondary Endpoints in the Analysis of Randomized Trials |
| May 19, 2025 | Chloe Falke | Joe Koopmeiners | Statistical Methods for Efficient Phase I Dose Escalation Trials |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Amanda Brunton | Cavan Reilly | The Predictive Accuracy of Clinical Covariates in Differentiating Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia With and Without Deep-Seated Foci of Infection via Application of Different Variable Selection Methodologies |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Losha Ndemeno-Tegomoh | Anne Eaton | A Comparison of Statistical Methods for Variable Selection Under Competing Risks: Modelling Death Possibly Related to Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto Transplantation (TPIAT) |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Bibin Joseph | Ann Brearley | Disability Health Equity Dashboard Prototype for Minnesota Department of Health |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Tyler Richter | Julian Wolfson | A Comparison of Average Treatment Effect Estimation Under High-Dimensionality Using Causal Forest (CF) and Causal Bayesian Adaptive Regression Trees (CBART) |
