From teaching college-level statistics to working as a data scientist at Microsoft, our newest alumni are off to some exciting new opportunities in the coming year.
Xinyun Dai, MS
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- Program: MS Thesis
- Future plans: Biostatistician I, Statistics Collaborative
- Thesis: Evaluation of Methods for the Statistical Analysis of Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis
- Advisor: Noah Simon
- Awards: 2020 Outstanding MS Student, Biostatistics
Shuangcheng Hua, MS
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- Program: MS Thesis
- Future plans: Pursuing a PhD in Biostatistics at the University at Buffalo
- Thesis: An Empirical Study of Convergence Rates and Resampling-based Confidence Interval Methods For Step Threshold Linear Regression Models
- Advisor: Youyi Fong
Jiahe Li, MS
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- Program: MS Thesis
- Future plans: Pursuing a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: Comparison of Several Statistical Tests for Evaluating Novel Treatments in the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Setting
- Advisor: Susanne May
Tracy Qi Dong, PhD
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- Program: PhD
- Future plans: I Post-doc Research Fellow, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Dissertation: Analysis of Infectious Disease Incidence and Complex Survey Data in Space and Time
- Advisor: Jonathan Wakefield
Jean Feng, PhD
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- Program: PhD
- Future plans: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of California – San Francisco
- Dissertation: Interpretable and reliable statistical models for biomedicine
- Advisors: Noah Simon and Erick Matsen
- Award: 2020 Thomas R. Fleming, Excellence in Biostatistics Awards
Lucy Gao, PhD
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- Program: PhD
- Future plans: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
- Dissertation: Statistical Inference for Clustering
- Advisor: Daniela Witten
- Award: 2020 Outstanding PhD Student, Biostatistics
Jiaqi Yin, PhD
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- Program: PhD
- Future plans: Data scientist, Microsoft
- Dissertation: Multiplicative Effect Modeling
- Advisors: Thomas Richardson, Linbo Wang
