PhD Student Directory
Sarika Aggarwal
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 2 | Advisor: Rachel Nethery
Research: Environmental health, Spatial statistics, Causal inference
Stephanie Armbruster
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Keith Barnatchez
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Jemar Bather
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Paige Williams
Research: Statistical methods for addressing critical questions in evaluating adverse birth outcomes among mothers with HIV
Luke Benz
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Tingyi Cao
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 2 | Advisor: Andrea Foulkes
Research: High-dimensional statistics, SARS-CoV-2 and long COVID
Jerry (Chia-Rui) Chang
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Rui Wang
Research: Robust weghting method to handle multilevel missing outcomes in cluster randomized trials
Kevin Lee Chen
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Rachel Nethery
Research: A space-time causal inference analysis of the differential impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on PM2.5 levels in the United States
Tony Chen
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Xihong Lin
Research: Statistical genetics, polygenic risk scores
Eric Cohn
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: José Zubizarreta
Research: Matching techniques for generalization and individualization
Ellen Considine
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 2 | Advisors: Francesca Dominici & Rachel Nethery
Research: Environmental health, spatial statistics, measurement error
Personal Website: https://ellenmconsidine.wixsite.com/mysite
Beau Coker
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisors: Brent Coull & Finale Doshi-Velez
Research: Variable selection in Bayesian neural networks
Rebecca Danning
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
rebecca_danning@harvard.edu
Year: 2 | Academic Advisor: Xihong Lin
Wenying Deng
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 5 | Advisor: Brent Coull
Research: Machine learning, robust statistics
Julie-Alexia Dias
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
juliealexiadias@hsph.harvard.edu
Year: 1
Research: Statistical Genetics, Cancer Epidemiology
Dominic DiSanto
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 1
Personal Website: https://domdisanto.github.io/
Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Research: Approaches to digital phenotyping in patients with spine disease
Anuraag Gopaluni
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
agopaluni@g.harvard.edu
Isabella Grabski
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisors: Giovanni Parmigiani & Rafael Irizarry
Research: Statistical methods for single-cell data, and Bayesian multi-study machine learning for genomic applications
Larry Han
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Tianxi Cai
Research: Semi-supervised inference and distributed learning using electronic health records and optimal trial design
Personal Website: https://larrylehan.github.io
Intekhab Hossain
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisors: John Quackenbush & Rebekka Burkholz
Research: Using neural ODEs to predict the dynamics of gene-regulatory networks
Sijia Huo
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Peter Kraft
Area of Research: An inference of the negative-selection level for cancer genomics and a fast Bayesian screen to identify pleiotropic loci and describe pleiotropic profiles
Gopal Kotecha
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Lorenzo Trippa
Research: Uncertainty directed factorial clinical trials
Daniel Li
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Xihong Lin
Research: Hospital volume, standardized infection ratio, and CMS reimbursement
Hui Li
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Xihong Lin
Research: Evaluation of heritability estimation methods with application to UK biobank data
Yige Li
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Jane Liang
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
jwliang@g.harvard.edu
Personal Website: janewliang.github.io
Gabriel Loewinger
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Jonathan Luu
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Rui Wang
Research: Estimating the treatment effect in randomized trials with correlated time-to-event outcomes
Lara Maleyeff
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Rui Wang
Research: The effect of clustser size variability and intracluster correlation estimation on statistical power in HIV-prevention studies
Sean McGrath
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Rajarshi Mukherjee
Research: On undersmoothing and sample splitting for nonparametric functional estimation
Madhav Sankaranarayanan
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Corriene Sept
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Martin Aryee
Research: Method development for epigenomics
Shuting Shen
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Xihong Lin
Research: Hypothesis tests for homogeneous stochastic block model
Yue Song
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Rui Wang
Research: Methods for Meta-Analysis and Modeling of HIV Viral Rebound
Octavious Talbot
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Jeanette Varela
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Cathy Wang
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Giovanni Parmigiani
Research: Multi-Study Ensemble Learning Methods
Stephanie Wu
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Michael Hughes
Research: Development of a nested case-control study for correlated binary outcomes
Catherine Xue
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisors: Jeffrey Miller & Scott Carter
Research: Statistically robust model selection for mutational signature discovery
Yue Yang
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisor: Francesca Dominici
Research: Causal inference methods to address outcome misclassification and other types of bias using environmental health data
Amy Zhou
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 3 | Advisor: Sharon-Lise Normand
Research: Modernizing risk adjustments for comparing hospitals
Luli Zou
Candidate, PhD in Biostatistics
Year: 4 | Advisors: Martin Aryee & Rafael Irizarry
Research: Statistical and computational methods for spatial genomics
