Ph.D. students and year of graduation

• Jiacheng Wang, 2022
  Dissertation title:  "Statistical methods for higher order tensor clustering and completion"


• Lizhen Nie, 2022
  Dissertation title:  "Statistical methods for change point problems and Bayesian uncertainty quantification"


• Tae Kim, 2020
  Dissertation title:  "Statistical methods for transcriptome data"


• Chris McKennan, 2019
  Dissertation title:  "Latent Variables in omic data"


• Yunfang Tang, 2018
  Dissertation title:  "Models and Inference for Microbiome Data"


• Qianying Liu (joint with Lin Chen), 2014
  Dissertation title:  "Gene-based studies: from population stratification adjustment to testing for gene-environment interactions"


• Matthew Reimherr, 2013
  Dissertation title:  "Functional Data Methods for Genome-Wide Association Studies"


• Han Han (joint with Peter McCullagh), 2012
  Dissertation title:  "From Bayes calculation to efficient integration of studies: three statistical problems"


• Ryan C. King, 2012
  Dissertation title:  "The rare variant hypothesis: interpretation and estimation in sequencing association studies"


• Omar De la Cruz, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Geometric Approaches in the Analysis of Genetic Data"


• Minsun Song, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Restricted parameter space models for testing gene-gene interactions"


• Baoguan Ke, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Statistical Methods for Association Mapping of Quantitative and Binary Trait Loci"


• Irina Ostrovnaya, 2006
  Dissertation title:  "Estimating Error Rates for Independent and Dependent Test Statistics"


• Jongwoo Song, 2003
  Dissertation title:  "A clustering algorithm with applications to gene expression data "

Masters students and year of graduation

• Shaoxiong (Dennis) Zheng, 2021
  Paper title:  " Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks "


• Jane Zhang, 2021
  Paper title:  " Statistical Inference for RNA Editing Rate Comparison "


• Isabela Kernin, 2021
  Paper title:  " Exploring Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Through Differential Expression Analysis "


• Yuhan Li, 2020
  Paper title:  " Detecting Individuals with Abnormal Molecular Aging from DNA Methylation Data "


• Dongyue Xie, 2018
  Paper title:  " Generalized Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis with Applications to Microbiome Data "


• Guanzhou Chen, 2018
  Paper title:  " Detecting Gene-Environment (G x E) Interactions with Sparse and Structured E "


• Peter Gao, 2017
  Paper title:  " Studying eQTL Detection with Methylation Data "


• Yuan (Alice) Hu, 2017
  Paper title:  " Effectiveness of Addressing Confounding Effects of Population Substructure in Large Scale Genetic Association Studies "


• Chi-Chun Liu, 2017
  Paper title:  " Inferring Population Structure with Pooled Genetic Data "


• Siqi Wang, 2017
  Paper title:  " Bayesian Prior Informativeness Assessment for Multivariate Parameters "


• Mandie Liu, 2017
  Paper title:  " Modeling the Relationship between Gut Microbiome and Human Behavior Based on Questionnaire Data from American Gut Project "


• Jang Won Choi, 2017
  Paper title:  " A Bayesian Investigation of Consumers’ Heterogeneity with the Multinomial Logit Brand Choice Mode "


• Jay Jeon, 2016
  Paper title:  " High-Frequency Return, Order Flow, and Traded Volume Dynamics "


• Qian Chen, 2016
  Paper title:  "Association studies with imperfect phenotypes: evaluation of methods"


• Deborah Sutton, 2015
  Paper title:  " Uncovering Epistatic Variants in Gene Expression Studies"


• Xinyue Li, 2014
  Paper title:  "Inference of Genetic Similarity between Tissues from RNA-seq Data"


• Yuefeng Han, 2014
  Paper title:  "Testing High Dimensional Normality via Multivariate Skewness and Kurtosis"


• Giulia Zardi (University of Bologna), 2013
  Paper title:  "A Statistical Study About Expression Variability Quantitative Trait Loci (evQTLs)"


• Jie Peng, 2007
  Paper title:  "The Feasibility of a Genome-Wide Linkage Study of a Large Asthma Pedigree"


• Stacy Steinberg, 2006
  Paper title:  "Detection of Relationship Errors in Inbred Pedigrees"


• Nathaniel Loman, 2006
  Paper title:  "Detection of Allelic Deletion via Inference of Loss of Heterozygosity in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by use of a Hidden Markov Model"


• Jake Byrnes (jointly mentored with Vanja Dukic), 2005
  Paper title:  "Using a HMM to Identify Ectopic Gene Conversion Events"


• Brinda Bijawat (jointly mentored with Lianne Kurina and Paul J. Rathouz), 2005
  Paper title:  "The Impact of Coronary Heart Disease and Arthritis on Depressive Symptoms - A Longitudinal Study"


• Brooke Sowell, 2005
  Paper title:  "Estimating the Recovery Kinetics of tER Sites"


• Nicholas Chamandy, 2003
  Paper title:  "The Monopoly Sampler: an illustration of convergence assessment techniques for Markov chain Monte Carlo"


• Wen-Hsin Feng, 2003
  Paper title:  "Two-Marker Likelihood based Transmission Disequilibrium Test for Association Studies"


• Hua Tang, 2003
  Paper title:  "A New Amino Acid Distance"


• Irina Ostrovnaya, 2003
  Paper title:  "Improved estimation of the False Discovery Rate with application to genetic association studies"


• Xin Dong (jointly mentored with Nancy J. Cox), 2002
  Paper title:  "Maternal and Parent-of-Origin Effects of Serotonin Transporter Gene (SLC6A4) in Autistic Disorder"


• Ping Zhang, 2001
  Paper title:  "Empirical Data and Simulation Study of Somatic Hypermutation in Immunoglobin Genes"