Ph.D. Students

• Yongqi Liu (Current)


• Qingyu Chen (Current)


• 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 (current) Thesis title: TBD

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)
  

Associates (partial list)

• Asuman Turkmen
  
  
• Chris Bartlett
  
  
• Lynn Friedman
  
  
• Mark Irwin
  
  
• William Lemon
  
  
• Kim McBride
  
  
• Nicholas Skomrock
  
  
• Bill Stewart
  
  
• Katie Thompson
  
  
• Joe Verducci
  
  
• Jared Wasserman
  
  
• Fred Wright
  
  
• Hong Zhu