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Principal investigator:
George C. Tseng (Professor in Depts of Biostatistics, Human Genetics and Computational Biology)
Team members: (alphabetic order)
Chang, Rick (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2021-now)
Li, Danyang (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2022-now; 2024 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award from her MS thesis in U of Washington)
Pham, Thien (GSR in Biostatistics)
Wang, Wenjia (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2020-now; 2023 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Student Paper Award)
Wang, Sarah (Yan) (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2023-now)
Xue, Xiangning (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2019-now)
Yin, Ruofei (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics, May 2023-now)



Past Members

PhD students:
  1. Zong, Wei (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; July 2018 - April 2023; 2023 Delta Omega Best Dissertation Award)
    First position: .

  2. Fang, Yusi (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2017 - April 2023; 2023 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter; 2024 ASA SIE Early Career Award, ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology)
    First position: Mathematical Statistician, FDA.

  3. Zou, Jian (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2019- April 2023; 2023 Dean's Service Award; 2022 Mihaela Serban Award for Best Poster Presentation by ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University.

  4. Li, Yujia (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2017- April 2022; 2019 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award; 2022 Delta Omega Best Dissertation Award)
    First position: Eli Lily.

  5. Liu, Peng (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; June 2016- June 2021; 2019 ASA Section in Statistical Genomics and Genetics (SSGG) Student Paper Award; 2020 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award; 2020 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    Current position: Pfizer.

  6. Rahman, Tanbin (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2015- June 2019; 2020 Delta Omega Best Dissertation Award)
    First position: Post-doctoral Fellow, MD Anderson
    Current position: Mathematical statistician, Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA.

  7. Zhu, Li (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2014- April 2019; 2018 ENAR Student Paper Award; 2018 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Google.

  8. Ma, Tianzhou (Charles) (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2013- June 2018; 2017 ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award; 2017 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: (tenure-track) Assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland.

  9. Fang, Zhou (Ark) (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2014- June 2018)
    First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
    Current position: Google.

  10. Huo, Zhiguang (Caleb) (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2012- April 2017; 2016 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter; 2018 ASA Biometrics Section student paper award)
    First position: (tenure-track) Assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida.

  11. Lin, Chienwei (Masaki) (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2012- April 2017; 2016 ENAR Student Paper Award; 2017 Delta Omega Best Dissertation Award)
    First position: (tenure-track) Assistant professor, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

  12. Liu, Shuchang (Silvia) (Ph.D. in Computational Biology, CMU-Pitt Joint PhD Program; April 2013- April 2017)
    First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackson Laboratory
    Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh.

  13. Kim, Sunghwan (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2011- May 2014; 2015 ENAR Student Paper Award; 2015 ASA Biometrics Section Student Paper Award; 2015 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
    Current position: (tenure-track) Assistant professor, Department of Statistics, Konkuk University, South Korea

  14. Chen, Rui (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Oct 2011-Jan 2015)
    First position: Senior Scientist, Merck.

  15. Liao, Ge (Serena) (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Feb 2011-Sep 2014)
    First position: Senior Biostatistician, Oncology Translational Medicine Department, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.

  16. Lunching Chang (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Sep 2010-May 2014; 2012 Dean's Day Poster Competition Award; 2014 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Post-doctoral fellow (Eric Polley and Richard Simon), Biometric Research Branch, NCI
    Current position: (tenure-track) Assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Science, Florida Atlantic University.

  17. Shaowu Tang (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; Nov 2010-May 2014; 2012 ENAR Student Paper Award; 2013 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    Current position: Senior biostatistician, Roche Molecular System

  18. Ying Ding (Ph.D. in Computational Biology, CMU-Pitt Joint PhD Program; July 2011-May 2014)
    First position: Senior Scientist, Pfizer

  19. Song, Chi (Chuck) (Ph.D. student in Biostatistics; Sep 2008-May 2012; 2012 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Post-doctoral fellow, Yale University
    Current position: Staff Fellow, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA.

  20. Xingbin Wang (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2008-July 2011)
    First position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Pittsburgh.
    Current position: Merck & Company, Inc.

  21. Dongwan Kang (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2009-May 2011; 2012 Biostatistics Department Best Dissertation Award)
    First position: Biostatistician, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  22. Kui Shen (Ph.D. in Computational Biology, CMU-Pitt Joint PhD Program; 2007-April 2010)
    Current position: Associate Director of Statistics, Bayer

  23. Shuya Lu (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2007-July 2009)
    Current position: Statistician, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA.

  24. Sunghee Oh (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2005-June 2009)
    First position: Postdoctoral fellow, Yale University
    Current position: Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Jeju National University, South Korea.

  25. Zhibao Mi (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2005-October 2008)
    Current: Senior statistician, VA Maryland Healthcare System

  26. Jia Li (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2006-September 2008; 2008 Student of the Year, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter)
    First position: Senior Statistician, Pfizer
    Current position: Research scientist, Henry Ford Health System.

  27. Chunrong Cheng (Ph.D. in Biostatistics; 2006-June 2008; Delta Omega Honor Society, Omicron Chapter Award)
    Current position: Statistician, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA.



Master students:
  1. Yin, Ruofei (M.S. in Biostatistics; April 2023) Current position: PhD student, Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh. (2023 Delta Omega Best Master's Dissertation Award)

  2. Gorczyca, Michael (M.S. in Computational and Systems Biology; April 2023) Current position: ??. (co-PI, 2021 Pitt CTSI QuMP pilot grant)

  3. Cahill, Kelly (M.S. in Biostatistics; Sep 2019) Current position: Data scientist, Dicks Sports.

  4. Guo, Kexin (M.S. in Biostatistics; April 2018) Current position: Biostatistician, Northwestern University.


Visiting scholars, rotation, or undergraduate students:
  1. Chung, I-Fang (Alex) (visiting scholar; Professor, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan; Aug 2021- Aug 2022)

  2. Freedman, Noah (summer rotation, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) MD/PhD student, University of Pittsburgh; June - August 2021)

  3. Chang, Chung (visiting scholar; Associate Professor, Department of Applied Math in National Sun Yet-Sen University, Taiwan; July 2019-Feb 2020)

  4. Lu, Han-Jyun (visiting student, Department of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; July 2018-Sep 2018)

  5. Huang, Hsin-En (visiting student, Department of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; July 2018-Sep 2018)

  6. Zeng, Xiangrui (undergraduate intern student, Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh; May 2015-Jue 2017)
    Current position: PhD student, Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University

  7. Tai, Anshun (visiting PhD student, Department of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Feb 2017-August 2017)

  8. Kuo, Anche (Schwannden) (visiting graduate student, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; July 2016-September 2016)

  9. Wang, Lin (visiting scholar; Assistant Professor, School of Statistics, Capital University of Economics and Business, China; August 2015-August 2016)

  10. Mahajan, Vibhuti (summer undergraduate intern from Indian Institute of Technology; May -July 2015)

  11. Joey Chen (visiting PhD student from the Bioinformatics Program at the National Taiwan University; Jan 2014-Sep 2014)
    Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.

  12. Bread (Wei-Hsiang) Tsai (visiting student from the National Yang-Ming University; August-September 2013)

  13. Aryan Vahedi-Faridi (summer student through MARC program at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; June-July 2013)

  14. Xixia Wang (undergraduate summer intern; July-August 2011)
    CS-major undergraduate student; Princeton University.