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.
Meet Our Students (2025 – 2026)
| Andres Esteban Arguedas Leiva |
| William Asinger |
| Martha Barnard |
| Rui Cao |
| Matthew Caputo |
| Larry Chen |
| Bennet Christensen |
| Christian Coffman |
| Simion De |
| Jamie Forschmiedt |
| Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar |
| Nicolas Gonzalez-Granda |
| Hannah Graff |
| Caleb Griffiths |
| Min Guo |
| Abigail Hahs |
| Jiayi Hu |
| Zuofu Huang |
| Lingfeng Huo |
| Ellery Island |
| Ziren Jiang |
| Bhargob Kakoty |
| Zhiyu Kang |
| Eunsan Kim |
| Gleb Kozienko |
| Jiakun Li |
| Jiahao Liu |
| Jialing Liu |
| Limeng Liu |
| Yang Liu |
| Anja Logan |
| Han Lu |
| Tanvi Mehta |
| Yuzi Mi |
| Alyssa Montgomery |
| Mandy Moran |
| Nicholas Musinguzi |
| Aidan Neher |
| Dagun Oh |
| Nidhi Pai |
| Shurui Pan |
| Sydney Presler |
| Zexi Rao |
| Victoria Rose |
| Yang Ruan |
| Nitya Shah |
| Milena Silva |
| Josey Sorenson |
| Apostolos Stamenos |
| Brent Strong |
| Lindsey Turner |
| Leif Verace |
| Wei Wang |
| Yijie Wang |
| Allison Yuan |
| Can Zhang |
| Jingzhe Zhang |
| Lujun Zhang |
| Sinian Zhang |
| Chen Zhao |
| Xu Zhou |
| Hengcheng Zhu |
| Noppawee Apichonpongpan |
| Alana Barnhart |
| Matthew Cao |
| Changfu Chen |
| Jennifer Czachura |
| Yuanlin Feng |
| Ryan Gavin |
| Duolan Han |
| Xiaowen Han |
| Joshua Hebeisen |
| Haoyun Hou |
| Cheryl Huang |
| Aswin Jayaraaman |
| Haoyu Ji |
| Yanwei Jin |
| Tyler Jubenville |
| Cassidy Kersten |
| Shuheng Kong |
| Yanqing Kong |
| Morgan Kosch |
| Jonghyeok Lee |
| Minyu Li |
| Max McQuide |
| Alise Mendoza |
| Syna Mody |
| Devon Nerstad |
| Andrew Ness |
| Katrina Nguyen |
| Jon Ong |
| Jiaqi Pang |
| Keo Pangan |
| Nirali Patel |
| Alex Pemberton |
| Shika Rai |
| Chelsea Reed |
| Calvin Reyes |
| Duke Ruan |
| Karl Schmid |
| Elise Steichen |
| Tianqi Tang |
| Jaden Thomas |
| Bo Wang |
| Jiaying Wu |
| Lei Xuan |
| Zheqi Yin |
| Jialiang Yuan |
| Hanyin Zhou |
| Zechen Zhou |
| Ashwakh Abdalla |
| Asiya Abdi |
| Karly Allison |
| Abigail Alwin |
| Jonathan Barnes |
| Jenna Bernier |
| Michala Carlson |
| Benjamin Cox |
| Maria DeCesare |
| Meghan Devlin |
| Jendayi Dixon |
| Isabel Eaton |
| Sennai Eskinder |
| Ashley Farnum |
| Lilian Fogland |
| Dominic Gomez |
| Anne Hackman |
| Lana Hantzsch |
| Mumtaz Hassan |
| Taylor Lanz |
| Melina Lee |
| Samuel Lee |
| Mark McMillin |
| Taichi Miyazaki |
| Amal Mohamed |
| Hamza Mohamoud |
| Alyssa Mondelli |
| Tenzin Nyima |
| Olusewa Obadiya |
| Katrin O’Grady |
| Morgan Pak |
| Alana Pastula |
| Emily Paulson |
| Brandon Payne |
| Jochebed Quarshie |
| Christine Rinehart |
| Griffin Roberts |
| Lina Thiel |
| Patrick Torralba |
| Sabine Umuhire Girubuntu |
| Benjamin VanSetters |
| Sophie Wiitala |
| Lauren Witty |
| Katherine Wu |
Upcoming Student Presentations
Recent Student Presentations
| Date | Name | Adviser | Type & Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Lindsey Turner | Thomas Murray | PhD Presentation: Transparent and Clinically Relevant Estimands for Ordinal Outcomes with Bayesian Estimators in Randomized Controlled Trials |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Minyu Li | Steffen Ventz | Plan B Presentation: A Neuronized Spike-and-Slab Prior for Bayesian Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Cox Models |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Devon Nerstad | Erika Helgeson | Plan B Presentation: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculators in Living Kidney Donors |
| May 28, 2026 | Duolan Han | Eric Lock | Plan B Presentation: Machine Learning–Based Imputation of Missing Race/Ethnicity in Healthcare Claims Data among PrEP Users |
| May 26, 2026 | Alex Pemberton | Anne Eaton | Plan B Presentation: Group Sequential Trial Design Under Non-Proportional Hazards: Log-Rank Test vs RMST-Based Approach |
| May 26, 2026 | Bo Wang | Sandra Safo | Plan B Presentation: MRI Features Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Outcomes, Social Determinants of Health, and Sex-Specific Heterogeneity |
| May 20, 2026 | Aswin Jayaraaman | Ashley Petersen | Plan B Presentation: Effects of Flavor and Modified Risk Statements on Nicotine Pouch Perceptions and Health Messaging Among Adult Cigarette Smokers |
| May 20, 2026 | Alise Mendoza | Tom Murray | Plan B Presentation: A Novel Analysis of Patient-Reported Outcomes: Item-Level Modeling in the mGlide Trial |
| May 18, 2026 | Changfu Chen | Jue (Marquis) Hou | Plan B Presentation: Fast Stagewise Regression for Semiparametric Transformed Model |
| May 18, 2026 | Yuanlin Feng | Jue (Marquis) Hou | Plan B Presentation: Privacy Preserving Validation on Generalizability of Risk Prediction |
| May 15, 2026 | Martha Barnard | Jared Huling & Julian Wolfson | PhD Presentation: Statistical Methods for Mobile Health Data and Causal Effect Estimation Under Positivity Violations |
| May 12, 2026 | Zheqi Lin | Erika Helgeson | Plan B Presentation: “Traditional versus Mixed-Type Adapted Clustering for Combined Clinical and Comorbidity Data in COPD: A Systematic Six-Method Comparison” |
