PhD Student Profiles
AMY PITTS
Education: B.S., Applied Mathematics & Data Science, Marist College
Cohort Year:
Fall 2020
Email: ajp2257@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Functional data analysis; Machine learning; Missing Data; Clinical Trials
ANGEL GARCIA DE LA GARZA
Education:
B.A., Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: ag3914@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
High Dimensional Data, Functional Data Analysis, Mental Health Statistics
BAOYI SHI
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Finance and Banking & Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2020
Email: bs3141@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Causal Inference; Functional Data Analysis; Machine Learning
BO HU
Education:
M.S. Biostatistics, University of Waterloo
B.S. Statistics, Nankai University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2015
Email: bh2567@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Statistical methods; Causal inference; Machine learning
CHARLOTTE FOWLER
Education: B.A., Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Macalaster College
Cohort Year:
Fall 2019
Email: crf2147@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
TBA
DENISE SHIEH
Education:
M.A. Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Mathematics, University of Rochester
Cohort Year:
Fall 2016
Email: ds3545@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Functional data analysis
ERIN MCDONNELL
Education:
M.S. in Biostatistics, Harvard University
B.S. in Mathematics, Christopher Newport University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: eim2117@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Statistical learning, Causal inference, Functional data analysis
JIA GUO
Education:
M.S. Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S. Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: jg3780@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Statistical genetics; Machine learning; Electronic health records (EHR); Statistics in psychiatry
MADISON STOMS
Education: B.S., Statistics, University of Michigan
Cohort Year:
Fall 2019
Email: ms5975@cmuc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Personalized Medicine, Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials, Missing Data
MARGARET GACHERU
Education:
B.A., Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: mg3861@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Survey Methods; Missing Data; Clinical Trials
MELANIE MAYER
Education:
B.S., Statistics and BA in Economics, University of Florida
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: mm4963@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Causal inference, high-dimensional data, health disparities
MUHIRE HONORINE KWIZERA
Education:
B.S., Mathematics, Spelman College
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: mhk2159@columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Undetermined
QINXIA WANG
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Harvard University
B.S., Mathematics, Ohio State University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2016
Email: qw2223@columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Modeling in neurological disorders, latent variable analysis, machine learning, graphical models
REBECCA SILVA
Education:
B.S., Mathematics, Amherst College
Cohort Year:
Fall 2019
Email: rs4025@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Clinical trials; precision medicine; predictive modeling.
RUIYANG LI
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rochester
B.A., Financial Economics, University of Rochester
Cohort Year:
Fall 2020
Email: rl3034@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Undetermined
ROBERT TAMAISAN
Education:
B.S., Applied Mathematics, State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo
Cohort Year:
Fall 2019
Email: robert.tumasian@columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Clinical Trials; Pharmaceutical Statistics
SIQUAN WANG
Education:
M.S., Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics, Harvard University
BS, Statistics and Operations Research & Finance, Hong Kong Baptist University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: sw3442@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Statistical Genetics, High-dimensional Inference, Personalized Medicine
SOOHYUN KIM
Education:
B.A., Mathematics and Economics, Mount Holyoke College
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: sk4382@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Undetermined
TIANCHEN XU
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: tx2155@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
High dimensional biomedical data, quantile regression, machine learning
WENBO FEI
Education:
M.S., Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Statistics, University of Science and Technology of China
Cohort Year:
Fall 2020
Email: wf2270@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Undetermined
YINJUN ZHAO
Education:
M.P.H., Biostatistics, Yale University
M.S., Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Renmin University
B.S., Statistics, Wuhan University of Technology
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: yz3503@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Undetermined
YUAN CHEN
Education:
M.S., Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Southeast University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2016
Email: yc3281@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Personalized medicine; Machine Learning
YUJING YAO
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Biological Sciences, Fudan University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2018
Email: yy2725@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Subsampling and resampling methods, high-dimensional statistics, Bayesian statistics, biological and medical statistics
ZILAN CHAI
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Medical Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2017
Email: zc2326@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Undetermined
ZIWEI LIAO
Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Mailman school of public health, Columbia University
B.S., Pharmaceutical Science, Fudan University
Cohort Year:
Fall 2016
Email: zl2417@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests:
Personalized medicine, Bayesian statistics, and Statistical learning
ZIYI WANG
Education:
M.S., in Biology, University of California, San Diego
B.S., in Mathematics-Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
B.S., in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego
Cohort Year:
Fall 2020
Email: zw2716@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Interests: Undetermined