Students and Postdocs

Postdoctoral scholars

Runshi Geng (Kruskal Instructor): 2023–
Alexander Strang (Kruskal Instructor): 2020–2023
- subsequently: Assistant Teaching Professor in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Bradley Nelson (Kruskal Instructor): 2020–2022
- subsequently: Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma
Tingran Gao (Kruskal Instructor): 2017–2020
- subsequently: Quantitative Researcher, Radix Trading
Yang Qi (Dickson Instructor & Postdoctoral Scholar): 2016–2019
- subsequently: Starting Researcher, École Polytechnique and INRIA Saclay
Jose Rodriguez (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow & Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar): 2015–2018
- subsequently: Assistant Professor in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ke Ye (Dickson Instructor): 2012–2017
- subsequently: Associate Professor in Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenglong Hu (Postdoctoral Scholar): 2015–2016
- subsequently: Associate Professor in Mathematics, Tianjin University
Anne Shiu (Dickson Instructor & NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Mathias Drton): 2011–2014
- subsequently: Asssistant Professor in Mathematics, Texas A&M University

PhD students

Andrew Dennehy (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2022–
Thomas Rongbiao Wang (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2022–
Zehua Lai (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2018–2023
- subsequently: R. H. Bing Instructor, University of Texas, Austin
Zhen Dai (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2018–2023
- subsequently: Quantitative Researcher, Sunrise Futures
Aaron Chen (Computational and Applied Mathematics, joint with Tingran Gao): 2017–2022
- subsequently: Data Scientist, GoHealth
Gregory Naitzat (Statistics): 2015–2020
- subsequently: Research Scientist, Facebook
Ken Sze-Wai Wong (Statistics): 2013–2018
- subsequently: Analytics Specialist, McKinsey
Liwen Zhang (Computer Science): 2012–2018
- subsequently: Research Scientist, Facebook
Katharine Turner (Mathematics, joint with Shmuel Weinberger): 2010–2015
- subsequently: Postdoctoral Scholar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

MS students

Changsheng Chen (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2023–
Xiang Lu (Statistics), 2023–
Haoming Wang (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2023–
Zihao He (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2022–2024
- subsequently: PhD Student in Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology
Feiyu Han (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: PhD Student in Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
Simiao Jiao (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, Duke University
JungHo Lee (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Yucong Liu (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: PhD Student in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin Wang (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: Postbaccalaureate Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Weishi Wang (Statistics): 2021–2023
- subsequently: PhD Student in Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Yuhang Cai (Statistics): 2019–2021
- subsequently: PhD Student in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Jinhong Du (Statistics): 2019–2021
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Wenxuan Guo (Statistics): 2019–2021
- subsequently: PhD Student in Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
Hsiang Wang (Statistics): 2019–2021
- subsequently: Military Service, Taiwan
Minda Zhao (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2019–2020
- subsequently: PhD Student in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign
Fuheng Cui (Statistics): 2018–2020
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas, Austin
Yuwei Luo (Statistics): 2018–2020
- subsequently: PhD Student in Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford University
Rick Presman (Statistics): 2018–2020
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, Duke University
Luyi Zhou (Statistics): 2018–2020
- subsequently: People's Bank
Zhi Rong Tan (Statistics): 2018–2019
- subsequently: Assistant Manager, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore
Dake Zhang (Statistics): 2017–2019
- subsequently: PhD Student in Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
Tianyi Zhang (Statistics): 2016–2018
- subsequently: PhD Student in Decision, Risk, and Operations, Columbia University
Jinjie Zhang (Statistics): 2016–2018
- subsequently: PhD Student in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Hang Yin (Statistics): 2016–2017
- subsequently: Algorithm Engineer, JD.com
Yiling You (Statistics): 2016–2017
- subsequently: PhD Student in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Foo (Statistics): 2016–2017
- subsequently: Economist, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore
Lijun Ding (Statistics): 2014–2016
- subsequently: PhD Student in Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
Byol Kim (Statistics): 2013–2015
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, University of Chicago
John Santerre (Computer Science): 2012–2014
- subsequently: PhD Student in Computer Science, University of Chicago
Lijuan Cao (Statistics): 2010–2011
- subsequently: PhD Student in Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park

BA/MS and BS/MS students

Alex Yinchen Wu (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2019–2023
- subsequently: Quantitative Trading Analyst, DRW
Zihao Li (Statistics): 2017–2021
- subsequently: PhD Student in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Freddy Boulton (Statistics): 2012–2016
- subsequently: Data Scientist, Nielsen

BA and BS students

Daniel Espejo (Mathematics): 2020–2024
- subsequently: PhD Student in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Princeton University
Julia Walchessen (Statistics): 2019–2020
- subsequently: PhD Student in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
David Noursi (Statistics): 2018–2019
- subsequently: Software Engineer, Facebook
Irvin Ding (Computational and Applied Mathematics): 2017–2018
- subsequently: Derivatives Analyst, Valkyrie Trading
Jack Huang (Physics): 2016–2019
- subsequently: Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign

Visiting students

Junjie Yue (PhD Student, Tsinghua University): Jan–Dec 2015
Arun Rajkumar (PhD Student, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore): Fall 2013
Jason Yang (High School Junior, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy): Sep 2014–Apr 2015

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