Ph.D. Students

• Sang Wan Lee (Current)


• Emerson Webb (Current)


• Yongqi Liu (Current)


• Qingyu Chen (2023) Dissertation title: "Association Test and Variable Selection in Microbiome Analysis with Phylogeny."
  Current Affiliation: Food and Drug Administration.


• Boyang Zhang (2022) Dissertation title: "New insights into the relationships between the rumen microbiome and animal production traits learned from bioinformatics and machine learning analyses — estimation of growth rate and development of new prediction models for methane emissions and milk production traits from meta-omic data." (Co-advised with Dr. Yu in Animal Sciences)
  Current Affiliation: Illumina.


• Qiaolan Deng (2022) Dissertaion title: "Multi-trait Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies using Adaptive Fisher's Method."
  Current Affiliation: Wells Fargo


• Zilu Liu (2022) Dissertation title: "Population Stratification Correction in Genetic Association Studies."
  Current Affiliation: Amgen


• Qing Xie (2021) Dissertaion title: "Single Cell Hi-C Matrix Imputation."
  Current Affiliation: Novartis Pharmaceuticals.


• Pei Yang (2021) Dissertation title: "Detecting Biological Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Coefficients in Penalized Regression Models."
  Current Affiliation: GlaxoSmithKline.


• Shuyuan Lou (2021) Dissertation title: "Bayesian Analysis for Significant Interactions of Chromatins and Simulation Algorithm."
  Current Affiliation: Incyte.


• Chenggong Han (2020) Dissertation title: "Statistical models and computational methods for studying DNA differential methylation and 3D genome structure."
  Current Affiliation: Google


• Xiaofei Zhou (2019) Dissertation title: "Bayesian Lasso for Detecting Rare Genetic Variants Associated with Common Diseases"
  Current Affiliation: Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
  
  
• Han Zhang (2017) Dissertation title: "Detecting Rare Haplotype-Environmental Interaction and Nonlinear Effects of Rare Haplotypes using Bayesian LASSO on Quantitative Traits."
  Current Affiliation: MassMutual.
  
  
• Fangyuan Zhang (2015) Dissertation title: "Detecting genomic imprinting and maternal effects in family-based association studies."
  Current Affiliation: Texas Tech University.
  
  
• Shuang Xia (2014) Dissertation title: "Detecting Rare Haplotype-Environment Interaction and Dynamic Effects of Rare Haplotypes using Logistic Bayesian LASSO."
  First Affiliation: Capital One.
  
  
• Meng Wang (2014) Dissertation title: "Family-Based Bayesian LASSO for Detecting Association of Rare Haplotypes with Common Diseases."
  Current Affiliation: Nationwide Children's Hospital
  
  
• Dao-Peng Chen (2013) Dissertation title: "Statistical power for RNA-seq data to detect two epigenetic phenomena."
  First Affiliation: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
  
  
• Liang Niu (2012) Dissertation title: "Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Chromatin Interactions."
  Current Affiliation: University of Cincinnati
  
  
• Jingyuan Yang (2010) Dissertation title: "Likelihood Approaches for Detecting Imprinting and Maternal Effects in Family-based Association Studies."
  First Affiliation: Amgene
  
  
• Jie Ding (2008) Dissertation title: "Monte Carlo pedigree disequilibrium test with missing data and population structure."
  First Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
  
  
• Shuyan Wan (2006) Dissertation title: "A Likelihood-based Procedure for obtaining Confidence Intervals of Disease Loci with General Pedigree Data."
  Current Affiliation: Merck.
  
  
• Babis Papachristou (2005) Dissertation title: "Constructing confidence regions for the locations of putative trait loci using data from affected sib-pair designs."
  Current Affiliation: Rowan University.
  
  
• Swati Biswas (2003) Dissertation title: "On incorporating heterogeneity in linkage analysis."
  Current Affiliation: University of Texas at Dallas.
  
  
• Zachary Skrivanek (2002) Dissertation title: "Sequential imputation and linkage analysis."
  Current Affiliation: Eli Lilly.
  
  
• Yuqun Luo (2002) Dissertation title: "Incorporation of genetic markers information in estimating model parameters for complex traits with data from large complex pedigrees."
  Current Affiliation: Food and Drug Administration.
  
  

Masters Students (Thesis option)

• Matt Brems (2015) Thesis title: "The Rare Disease Assumption: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly."
  First Affiliation: Optimus Consulting
  
  
• Cao Cheng (2020) Thesis title: "Analysis of Concordance and Discordance in Genetic Association Studies via Forward-Backward Scoring Scheme."
  First Affiliation: Ph.D. student at the University of Hong kong


• John Lesniak (2023) Thesis title: "Identifying Preeclampsia Risk with Biological Aging Ratios."
  First Affiliation: Citizens Bank.


• Max Cartwright (2024) Thesis title: "Predicting One-Year Survival of Patients With PAH Using Integrative Non-Invasive Lab and MRI Variables."
  

Postdocs Mentored

• Farhad Shokoohi (2014-2015)
  
  
• Deepak Ayyala (2013-2016)
  
  
• Jincheol Park (2012-2013)
  
  
• Xiangtao Liu (2012-2014)
  
  
• Cenny Taslim (2008-2012)
  
  
• Erik Bloomquist (2009-2010)
  
  
• Shuying Sun (2007-2009)
  
  
• Wei Guo (2006-2009)
  
  
• Jin Zhou (2004-2007)
  
  
• Abbas Khalili (2006-2007)
  
  
• Dustin Potter (2005-2008)
  
  
• Zhenqiu Liu (2004-2005)
  
  
• Zailong Wang (2004-2005)
  
  
• Daolong Wang (1999-2002)
  
  
• Rong Cheng (1999-2000)