Alumni

Alumni of the Biostatistics Graduate Group

Below are listed, by year, the alumni of our Biostatistics M.S. and Ph.D. programs. If you are an alumnus or alumna and would like to send us your updated details, please feel free to contact us.

**Graduated 2016**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Chiu, Chi-Lu	M.S.	2014	2016	n/a	n/a
Ding, Kai	Ph.D.	2010	2016	David Rocke	"Extreme Value Analysis of the Likelihood Ratio Statistic in Linear Mixed Models"
Jian, Minjie	M.S.	2014	2016	n/a	n/a
Lawson, Brian	M.S.	2014	2016	n/a	n/a
Lu, Jiayi (Amy)	M.S.	2014	2016	n/a	n/a
Wang, Huanli	Ph.D.	2009	2016	Laurel Beckett	"Calibration Problems of Alzheimer's Disease Progression from Multivariate Panel Data"

**Graduated 2015**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Aden, Christopher	M.S..	2012	2015	n/a	n/a
Chen, Chia-Pei	Ph.D.	2011	2015	Fushing Hsieh	A new method biDCG for discovering global features of DNA microarray data and gene-drug interacting geometry
Chen, Yingjia (Sophie)	M.S.	2014	2015	n/a	n/a
Fan, Sili	M.S.	2013	2015	n/a	n/a
Jin, Liequn	Ph.D.	2009	2015	David Rocke	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Weibull Based Recursive Partitioning Using Prediction Error Curves
Lin, Jiunn-Ru	M.S.	2013	2015	n/a	n/a
Lin, Tzu-Chun	M.S.	2007	2015	n/a	n/a
Madankar, Amruta	M.S.	2013	2015	n/a	n/a
Marlow, Emily	M.S	2012	2015	n/a	n/a
Pei, Yu	M.S	2013	2015	n/a	n/a
Rees, Zachary	M.S	2013	2015	n/a	n/a
Zhang, Yilun *	M.S	2013	2015 *	n/a	n/a. *Entered Biostats PhD Fall 2015

**Graduated 2014**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Austin, Adam	M.S.	2012	2014	n/a	n/a
Chou, Elizabeth	Ph.D.	2009	2014	Laurel Beckett / Fushing Hsieh	Computed data-geometry based supervised and semi-supervised learning in high dimensional data
Darnell, Heather	M.S.	2012	2014	n/a	n/a
Huang, Chun-Jung	Ph.D.	2009	2014	Danielle Harvey	Spatial-temporal Models for Image Data Analyses
Mahajan, Satish	M.S.	2012	2014	n/a	n/a
Poltavskiy, Eduard	M.S.	2010	2014	n/a	n/a
Tao, Wenwen	Ph.D.	2009	2014	Hans-Georg Müller	Represent derivatives and time dynamics for longitudinal data
Zhou, Siyuan	Ph.D.	2008	2014	Debashis Paul	Semiparametric Modeling of non-autonomous dynamical systems

**Graduated 2013**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Dienes, Erin	Ph.D.	2007	2013	Laurel Beckett	An Information Theoretic Approach to Biomarker Validation
Wang, Hui	Ph.D.	2008	2013	Fushing Hsieh	Multi-Scale Clustering by Building a Robust and Self Correcting Ultrametric Topology on Data Points

**Graduated 2012**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Gottlieb, Andrea	Ph.D.	2007	2012	Hans-Georg Müller	Functional methods for stickiness and compositional longitudinal data
Haldeman, Kristin	M.S.	2009	2012	n/a	n/a

**Graduated 2011**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Guerrero, Elizabeth	M.S.	2009	2011	n/a	n/a
Haldeman, Kristin	M.S.	2009	2012	n/a	n/a
Hyun, Jung Won	Ph.D.	2005	2011	Prabir Burman / Debashis Paul	Local polynomial estimation for a smooth spatial random process with a stochastic trend and a stationary noise
Jiang, Yun Kai	Ph.D.	2006	2011	Christiana Drake	Topics on Bayesian analysis of mising data
Su, Yu-Ru	Ph.D.	2006	2011	Jane-Ling Wang	Survival analysis for incomplete data

**Graduated 2010**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Mao, Meng	Ph.D.	2004	2010	Jane-Ling Wang	Semiparametric efficient estimation for a class of generalized proportional odds cure models
Greasby, Tamara	Ph.D.	2004	2010	Prabir Burman	Powering the future: wind power forecasts for Solano, California
Hagar, Yolanda	Ph.D.	2004	2010	Laurel Beckett	Estimating colorectal cancer screening in the presence of missing data in a population with a resistant subset and multiple observations

**Graduated 2009**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Barkauskas, Donald	Ph.D.	2006	2009	David Rocke	Statistical analysis of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry data with applications to cancer biomarker detection
Taylor, Sandra	Ph.D.	2004	2009	Katherine Pollard	Composite interval mapping for point-mass mixtures
Wang, Ying-Fang	Ph.D.	2002	2009	Fushing Hsieh	Topics on Multivariate Two-Stage Current-Status Data and Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis

**Graduated 2008**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Cendak, Rose	M.S.	2006	2008	n/a	n/a
Liu, Jingyi	Ph.D.	2004	2008	Prabir Burman	A Shrinkage-Average Method for Fitting High Dimensional Linear Models
Nguyen, Thuan	Ph.D.	2002	2008	Jiming Jiang	New Procedures of Fence Methods and their Applications
Saito, Naomi	M.S.	2007	2008	n/a	n/a

**Graduated 2007**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Chefo, Solomon	Ph.D.	2005	2007	Alex Tsodikov	Multinomial Regression Model Fitting: a Fake Mixture Formulation
Leong, Christopher	M.S.	2005	2007	n/a	n/a
Tang, Rong	Ph.D.	2002	2007	Hans-Georg Müller	Curve Synchronization and discovery of Time-Warped Clusters for Time Course Microarray Data
Tseng, Szu-Ching	Ph.D	2000	2007	Alex Tsodikov	A Generalized Self-consistency Approach to semiparametric survival models
Zhang, Zhen	Ph.D	2003	2007	Hans-Georg Müller	Functional Data Analysis for Densities

**Graduated 2006**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Ghosh, Jagganath	M.S.	2004	2006	n/a	n/a
Tennessen, Kristin	M.S.	2004	2006	n/a	n/a
Yu, Qilu	Ph.D.	2002	2006	Laurel Beckett	Modeling Correlated Longitudinal Processes, with Some Process Partially Observed
Zhou, Jufen	M.S.	2005	2006	n/a	n/a

**Graduated 2005**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Chiang, Vicky	M.S.	2003	2005	n/a	n/a

**Graduated 2004**
Name	Degree	Entered	Graduated	Thesis Adviser	Thesis Title (Ph.D. only)
Chiechi, Christine	M.S.	2002	2004	n/a	n/a