Group Members

Current Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Yiluan Song, 2023-2025. Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc, Joint with Kai Zhu.
• Jingyang Li, 2023-2025.
• Tsige Atilaw, 2024-2026. Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc, Joint with Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti.

Ph.D. Students

• Victor Verma, 2022-now, joint with Stilian Stoev.
• Yuxuan Ke, 2023-now.
• Jiuqian Shang, 2023-now.
• Noah Kochanski, 2023-now.
• Ashlan Simpson, 2024-now.
• Soham Das, 2024-now.
• Kevin Jin, 2024-now.

Master Students

• Matthew McAnear, 2023-now.
• Ke Hu, 2024-now.
• Chia-Yun Li, 2024-now.
• Jiaxing Xu, 2024-now.
• Longhao Pang, 2024-now.

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Alumni

Postdoc Alumni

• Arya Farahi (MIDAS data science fellow), 2019-2021.
  First position: Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. Alumni

• Wyane (Yu) Wang (joint with Alfred O. Hero), 2018-2022.
  • Dissertation title: Interpretable and Scalable Graphical Models for Complex Spatio-temporal Processes.
  • First position after graduation: Researcher at Google.
• Robert N. Trangucci (joint with Jon Zelner), 2017-2023.
  • Dissertation title: Bayesian Methods for Mitigating Sample Selection Bias in Epidemiology.
  • First position after graduation: Assistant Professor of Statistics at Oregon State University.
• Daniel Iong, 2017-2023.
  • Dissertation title: Inference algorithms for probabilistic models with applications in epidemiology and space weather forecasting.
  • First position after graduation: Researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
• Bach Viet Do (joint with Long Nguyen), 2017-2023.
  • Dissertation title: Mixture Modeling: Solar Application and Misspecification Behaviors.
  • First position after graduation: Research Data Scientist at Ford Motors.
• Hu Sun, 2020-2024.
  • Dissertation title: Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Tensor Data.
  • First position after graduation: IMC Trading.

Bridge Program Alumni

(name, years, first position)

• Dylan Glover, 2021-2022, Research Statistician at Maxar Technologies.
• Noah Kochanski, 2022-2023, Ph.D. student at University of Michigan.
• Mallory Wang, 2023 Winter, Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Babara.

Masters’ Program Alumni (incomplete list)

(name, years, first position)

• Tian Zhou, 2018-2019, Machine Learning Engineer at Snap.
• Naomi Giertych, 2018-2019, Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University.
• Zhenbang Jiao, 2018-2020, Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University.
• Hu Sun, 2018-2020, Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Zhijun Hua, 2020-2021, Ph.D. student at Cornell University.
• Xianlin Sun, 2021-2022, Ph.D. student at University of Hong Kong.
• Hongfan Chen, 2021-2022, Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Wei Zhao, 2021-2022, Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University.
• Yurui Chang, 2022-2023, Ph.D. student at Penn State University.
• Zeyuan Li, 2023.
• Qikai Hu, 2022-2023, Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Ruoyang Liu, 2022-2023.
• Jiayin Ye, 2023-2024, joint with Yi Hong, Ph.D. student at University of Maryland.
• Xinyu Liang, 2023-2024, joint with Wenman Liu.
• Yizhou Zhang, 2023 summer-2024, Ph.D. student at Purdue University.

Undergraduate Alumni

(name, years, first position)

• Miaoshiqi Liu, 2018 summer, Ph.D. student at University of Toronto.
• Song Wei, 2018 summer, Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Yuezhou Qu, 2023 Winter - 2024.
• Ruipu Li, 2022-2024, joint with Joyce Penner and Xianglei Huang, 2022 summer -2024, Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan.
• Nicolas Harder, 2022-2024, joint with Joyce Penner and Xianglei Huang, 2022 summer -2024.
• Brandon Li, 2023 Winter-2024, joint with Yi Hong.
• Jiuqian Shang, 2022 summer - 2023 Winter, Ph.D. student at University of Michigan.
• Xiaoli Li, 2023 Winter - 2024, Ph.D. student at University of Chicago.
• Xiaofan Xia, 2023 Summer, Ph.D. student at University of Toronto.