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From data scientist to researcher, recent program grads share future plans

From teaching college-level statistics to working as a data scientist at Microsoft, our newest alumni are off to some exciting new opportunities in the coming year.

Xinyun Dai, MS

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Xinyun Dai
Xinyun Dai
  • Program: MS Thesis
  • Future plans: Biostatistician I, Statistics Collaborative
  • Thesis: Evaluation of Methods for the Statistical Analysis of Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis
  • Advisor: Noah Simon
  • Awards: 2020 Outstanding MS Student, Biostatistics
 

Shuangcheng Hua, MS

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Shuangcheng Chloe Hua
Shuangcheng Hua
  • Program: MS Thesis
  • Future plans: Pursuing a PhD in Biostatistics at the University at Buffalo
  • Thesis: An Empirical Study of Convergence Rates and Resampling-based Confidence Interval Methods For Step Threshold Linear Regression Models
  • Advisor: Youyi Fong
 

Jiahe Li, MS

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Jiahe Doris Li
  • Program: MS Thesis
  • Future plans: Pursuing a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh
  • Thesis: Comparison of Several Statistical Tests for Evaluating Novel Treatments in the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Setting
  • Advisor: Susanne May
 

Tracy Qi Dong, PhD

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Tracy Dong
Tracy Qi Dong
  • Program: PhD
  • Future plans: I Post-doc Research Fellow, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Dissertation: Analysis of Infectious Disease Incidence and Complex Survey Data in Space and Time
  • Advisor: Jonathan Wakefield
 

Jean Feng, PhD

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Jean Feng
Jean Feng
  • Program: PhD
  • Future plans: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of California – San Francisco
  • Dissertation: Interpretable and reliable statistical models for biomedicine
  • Advisors: Noah Simon and Erick Matsen
  • Award: 2020 Thomas R. Fleming, Excellence in Biostatistics Awards
 

Lucy Gao, PhD

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Lucy Gao
Lucy Gao
  • Program: PhD
  • Future plans: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
  • Dissertation: Statistical Inference for Clustering
  • Advisor: Daniela Witten
  • Award: 2020 Outstanding PhD Student, Biostatistics
 

Jiaqi Yin, PhD

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Jiaqui Yin
Jiaqi Lin