JSM 2014. Four of my former Ph.D. students, all in one
place! (L to R) Helen Fan, Katie Thompson, Laura Kubatko, David
Spade, and James Degnan.
Shawn Chen, Ph.D. student in Statistics
Shawn is studying composite likelihood approaches in phylogenetics.
Emerson Webb, Ph.D. student in Statistics (co-advised with Prof. Shili Lin)
Emerson's work with me includes phylogenetic inference for RNA-Seq data.
Shelby Mosier, Ph.D. student in EEOB
Shelby's work involves studying migration in bats in an evolutionary context.
Colleen Sunderland-Ober, M.S. in Statistics, 2024
Thesis title: Species Tree Inference under the Coalescent Model in the Case of Gene Flow between Non-sister Taxa
Md. Rejuan Haque, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, 2023
Thesis title: Testing Global Hypotheses Using Combination Tests, with Application to Phylogenetic Inference
Current position: Research Scientist, Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University
Lloyd Goldstein, M.S. in Statistics, 2023
Project: Estimating divergence times in species-level phylogenies
Current position: Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of Cincinnati
Sungsik Kevin Kong, Ph.D. in EEOB, 2022
Thesis title: Towards the Network of Life: Phylogenetic Networks as a Tool to Understand Complex Evolutionary Histories
Current position: Postdoctoral scholar at ICERM (Brown University)
Carly Middleton, M.S. in Biostatistics, 2022
Thesis title: A Comparison of Two Maximum Likelihood Selection Identification Methods Applied to Protein-coding Regions of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Genomes
Current position: Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at the University of Louisville
Jing Peng, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, 2021
Thesis title: Speciation Time and Hybridization Under Multispecies Coalescent: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
Current position: Senior Clinical Scientist, Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China
Yuan Gao, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, 2021
Thesis title: A Phylogenetic Approach to Study Cancer Progression
Current position: Scientist, Allen Institute
Andrew Richards, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021
Thesis title: New Species Tree Inference Methods Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model
Current position: Assistant Professor of Teaching Practice, The Ohio State University
Matthew Wascher, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020
(primary advisor Dr. David Sivakoff)
Thesis title: The contact process with avoidance and some results in phylogenetics
Current position: Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Yuan Tian, Ph.D. in EEOB, Fall 2016; M.S. in Statistics,
2016
Dissertation
Title: Topics in Phylogenetic Species Tree Inference under the
Coalescent Model
Current Position: Senior Clinical Data Scientist/Research Scientist I, Bioinformatics, Gilead
Helen Fan, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2013
Dissertation Title: Species Tree Likelihood Computation Given SNP Data
Using Ancestral Configurations
M.S. in EEOB, Summer 2010
Thesis title: Estimating Species Trees Using Approximate
Bayesian
Computation
Current Position: Quantitative Researcher, American Century Investments
Katie Thompson, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2013
Dissertation Title: Using Ancestral Information to Search for
Quantitative Trait Loci in Genome-wide Association Studies
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
David Spade, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2013 (co-advised with
Prof. Radu Herbei)
Dissertation Title: Investigating Convergence of Markov Chain
Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lori Hoffman, Ph.D. in Statistics, 2010
Dissertation Title: Disease Gene Mapping Under The Coalescent Model
Current Position: STATKING Consulting, Inc.
Chen Meng, Ph.D. in Statistics (UNM), 2008
Dissertation Title: Phylogenetic Models for Hybridization in a Coalescent Framework
James Degnan, Ph.D. in Statistics (UNM), 2005
Dissertation Title: Gene Tree Distributions Under the Coalescent Process
Curren Position: Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
Guy Brock, Ph.D. in Statistics (UNM), 2003
Dissertation Title: Models for Detecting Gene Regulatory Networks from Microarray
Current Position: Professor, Biomedical Informatics, and Associate Director, Center for Biostatistics
Joy Zeng, M.S. in Statistics (jointly advised by Prof. Matt Pratola)
Thesis title: Latent Factor Models in Recommender Systems and Market
Segmentation Through Clustering
Current position: Statistician at Pfizer
Lingfei Cui,
M.S. in Evolution & Ecology; M.S. in Mathematics
Thesis Title: A Likelihood Method to Estimate/Detect Gene Flow and A
Distance Method to Estimate Species Trees in the Presence of Gene
Flow
Current Position: Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at UC Davis
Lin Pan, M.S. in Statistics (UNM)
Kristina Strandberg, M.S. in Statistics (UNM)
Jennifer Bryant, M.S. in Statistics (UNM)
Kristina Wicke, President's Post-doctoral Scholar
Current position: Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Colby Long, Former MBI
Post-doc
Current position: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster
Jeff Gaither, Former MBI Post-doc
Current position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Julia Chifman, Former MBI Post-doc
Current position: Associate Professor, American University
Rasmus Hovmoller, Former MBI Post-doc
Current Position: Swedish Museum of Natural History
Jerry Walsh, B.S. in Biology, 2021-2022
Purva Shenoy, MBI REU student, Summer 2021
Selin Kubali, MBI REU student, Summer 2021
Erika Fox, MBI REU student, Summer 2020
Amy Moore, MBI REU student, Summer 2020
Shelby Jansens, MBI REU student, Summer 2020
Kimberly Wiles, MBI REU student, Summer 2020
Xiaoyu Liang, B.S. in Data Analytics
Current position: graduate school
Haoran Wang, B.S. in Data Analytics
Current position: graduate school
Ben Stone, Undergraduate Research Fellow, RUMBA
Ben worked with fellow undergraduate student Niharika Padmalwar to
study species
relationships in the parasitic plant genus Hyobanche
Current position: Post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University (following Ph.D. in EEOB at OSU in 2021)
Niharika Padmalwar, Undergraduate Research Fellow, RUMBA
Niharika worked with fellow undergraduate student Ben Stone to study species
relationships in the parasitic plant genus Hyobanche.
Rafah Asadi, Summer 2015 Undergraduate Research Fellow
Rafah worked on cancer phylogenomics.
Tiffany Bailey, Summer 2015 SROP Undergraduate Research
Fellow
Tiffany worked on statistical phylogenetics, particularly the
relationship between invariants-based methods and maximum likelihood
for single-locus data.
Current position: Data Analyst, The Center for Family Safety and Healing
Divyagash Swargaloganathan, MBI REU student, Summer 2013
Divy studied coalescent-based priors for Bayesian gene tree
inference.
Current position: Statistical Scientist, Sana Biotechnology, Inc. (after obtaining a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard)
Erin Harvey, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Shannon Kilkenny, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Yingle Zhang, MBI REU student
Yingle received an M.S. in Statistics at OSU following her undergradute studies.
Theresa Bolaney, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Paul Blischak, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Current position: Data Scientist at Bayer Crop Sciences (following Ph.D. in EEOB at OSU)
Susan Fassnacht, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Tim NeCamp, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Current position: Graduate student in Statistics at University of Michigan
David Gerard, Undergraduate research fellow, RUMBA
Current position: Assistant Professor, American University (following Ph.D. in Statistics at University
of Washington)