Team
Current Members
- Xiang Zhou, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Before joining UM, he was a William H. Kruskal Instructor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. He received his postdoc training in Matthew Stephens lab in the Department of Human Genetics and Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, where he also worked closely with people in Yoav Gilad lab. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees at Duke University, where his was advised by Fan Wang and Scott Schmidler, and worked closely with Jerry Reiter. He was trained as both a statistician and a biologist.
- Kalins Banerjee, Postdoc (09/2021 - Present).
- Jade Wang, Postdoc (03/2022 - Present).
- Chao Ning, Postdoc (03/2023 - Present).
- Wenjing Ma, Postdoc (07/2023 - Present).
- Lu Liu, Postdoc (07/2023 - Present).
- Siyu Hou, Postdoc (08/2023 - Present).
- Boran Gao, PhD Student of Biostatistics (05/2017 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2017.
- Chang Xu, PhD Student of Biostatistics (04/2019 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2019.
- Peijun Wu, PhD Student of Biostatistics (05/2019 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2020.
- Zheng Li, PhD Student of Biostatistics (07/2019 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2020.
- Peiyao Zhao, PhD Student of Biostatistics (10/2020 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2021.
- Yanlin Tong, PhD Student of Biostatistics (05/2022 - Present), admitted to the PhD program in 2023.
- Robert Langefeld, MS Student of Biostatistics (09/2022 - Present), Genome Science Training Program (GSTP), admitted to the MS program in 2022 and PhD program in 2024.
Alumni
Students
- Lulu Shang, PhD Student (05/2017 - 08/2023), admitted in 2018, now an Assistant Professor at MD Anderson.
- Ying Ma, PhD Student (09/2017 - 07/2023), admitted in 2018, now an Assistant Professor at Brown University.
- Jiaqiang Zhu, PhD Student (05/2016 - 06/2022), admitted in 2017, now a Senior Biostatistician at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
- Hengshi Yu, PhD Student (03/2020 - 06/2022), admitted in 2017, co-advised with Prof. Joshua Welch, now a Data Scientist at Google.
- Yanyi Song, PhD Student (09/2016 - 09/2020), admitted in 2016, co-advised with Prof. Bhramar Mukherjee, now a Data Scientist at Facebook.
- Christopher Lee, PhD Student (09/2017 - 01/2020), admitted in 2015, co-advised with Prof. Maureen Sartor, now a Bioinformatics Scientist at NIA.
Postdocs
- Fred Boehm, Postdoc (06/2021-05/2023), now a Postdoc at University of Michigan working on joint projects.
- Huanhuan Zhu, Postdoc (07/2018 - 09/2020), now an Associate Research Fellow in the Precision Health Research Institute at BGI.
- Qidi Feng, Postdoc (06/2018-05/2020), now a Postdoc at Harvard University.
- Sheng Yang, Postdoc (02/2018 - 02/2020). now an Associate Professor at Nanjing Medical University.
- Zhongshang Yuan, Postdoc (10/2017-12/2019), now a Professor at Shandong University.
- Shiquan Sun, Visiting PhD Student (09/2015-01/2017) and Postdoc (11/2017-12/2019), now a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
- Julong Wei, Postdoc (11/2018 - 06/2019). now a Postdoc at Wayne State University.
- Ping Zeng, Postdoc (10/2015-09/2017), now an Associate Professor at Xuzhou Medical University.
Visiting Students
- Yue Fan, Visiting PhD Student (11/2017-11/2019), now an Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
- Lu Wang, Visiting PhD Student (08/2018-09/2019), now finishing up PhD at Shandong University.
- Xingjie Hao, Visiting PhD Student (02/2016-01/2018), now an Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Visiting Scholars
- Jin Zhang, Visiting Scholar (04/2018-04/2019), now an Associate Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University.