Current Research Team

  • Jianbin Tan (jointly mentored with Pixu Shi), postdoctoral research fellow.
  • Qiuyi Wu (jointly mentored with Pixu Shi), postdoctoral research fellow.
  • Pengfei Lyu, postdoctoral research fellow.
  • Huifang Ma (primarily mentored by Jason Zhicheng Ji), postdoctoral research fellow.
  • Runshi Tang (jointly supervised with Rick Chappell), PhD student in Statistics at UW–Madison.
  • Han Chen, PhD student in Statistical Science at Duke.
  • Zhengchi Ma, PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke.
  • Fred Zhangzhi Peng (jointly with Alex Tong at Aithyra in Austria and Chris Dallago at NVIDIA), PhD student in CBB at Duke.
  • Yufa Zhou, PhD student in Computer Science at Duke.
  • Yixiao Wang, master's student in Statistical Science at Duke.
  • Kevin Jian Lu, master's student in Computer Science at Duke.

Alumni

  • Shiyi Jiang (jointly supervised with Krishnendu Chakrabarty), PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke, 09/2021–12/2024.
    Shiyi is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Chunhua Weng's group in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center.
  • Yuetian Luo, PhD student in Statistics at UW–Madison, 09/2017–05/2022.
    Yuetian is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics, Rutgers University.
    Yuetian won the 2023 IMS Lawrence D. Brown Award (awarded to three PhD students among the IMS community per year).
  • Rungang Han, PhD student in Statistics at UW–Madison, 09/2017–08/2021. Current position: Jump Trading.
    Rungang won the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown Award (awarded to three PhD students among the IMS community per year).
  • Yuchen Zhou, PhD student at UW–Madison (jointly supervised with Yazhen Wang), 2016–2021.
    Yuchen won the 2021 IMS Hannan Travel Award.
    Yuchen is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
  • Jingyang Li, visiting PhD student, Oct 2022–Mar 2023.
    Jingyang obtained his PhD from The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
    Jingyang will become an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, School of Management, Fudan University, starting 01/2026.
  • Yinrui Sun, visiting student.
    Yinrui is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, School of Management, Fudan University.
  • Yan Zhang, master's student in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke, 2024–2025.
    Yan is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at Emory University.
  • Zening Wang, master's student in Statistical Science at Duke, 2024–2025.
    Zening (Jasmine) is currently a PhD student in Statistics at Rice University.
  • Zihan Zhu, master's student in Statistical Science at Duke, 09/2022–05/2024.
    Zihan won the 2024 IMS Hannan Travel Award.
    Zihan is currently a PhD student in Statistics & Data Science at the Wharton School.
  • Chenyin Gao, HIV/AIDS summer camp intern, PhD student in Statistics at NC State, 05/2021–08/2021.
  • Xin Gai, master's student in Statistical Science at Duke, 09/2022–05/2024.
    Xin is currently a PhD student in Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.
  • Chen An, HIV/AIDS summer camp intern, PhD student in Mathematics at Duke, 05/2021–08/2021.
  • Yuankang Zhao, master's student in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke, 05/2022–05/2023.
    Yuankang is currently a PhD student in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke.
  • Panyu Chen, master's student in Computer Science at Duke.
  • Muhang Tian, undergraduate student in Computer Science at Duke.
    Muhang is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the Courant Institute, New York University.
  • Ziyi Liu, VISP–Master in Data Science student at UW–Madison.
    Ziyi is currently a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, starting in Fall 2021.
  • Xiaohan Zhu, undergraduate student at UW–Madison.
    Xiaohan is currently a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, starting in Fall 2021.
  • Chengzhu Huang, undergraduate student at the University of Science and Technology of China.
    Chengzhu is currently a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, Columbia University, starting in Fall 2023.