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Current Students

PhD students

  1. David Walker, Statistics
  2. Yunhui Qi, Statistics, co-advised by Yumou Qiu
  3. Hao Wang, Statistics, co-advised by Yumou Qiu
  4. Benjamin Jacobs, Statistics

MS students

None

Graduated Students

PhD students

  1. Zhili Qiao , Statistics. Clustering methods for omics data, 2023. Now working at Eli Lily.
  2. Amin Shiraz , (Co-Major Professor: Yumou Qiu), Statistics. Power Enhanced Gene Differential Expression Analysis by Incorporating Gene Network Information, 2022. Now working at AbbVie.
  3. Wenting Zhao (Co-Major Professor: Yumou Qiu), Statistics. Statistical methods for conditional dependence and microbiome data analysis, 2022. Now working at Zoetis
  4. Emily Goren , Statistics. 2019. Now working at Cancer Research And Biostatistics (CRAB).
  5. Ran Bi , Statistics. Statistical methods for gene expression studies using next-generation sequencing experiments, 2018. Now working at Novartis.
  6. Chaohui Yuan (Co-Major Professor: Chong Wang), Statistics. Statistical methods for microbiome data and antimicrobial resistance analysis, 2018. Now working at Eli Lily.
  7. Fangfang Liu (Co-Major Professor: Chong Wang), Statistics. Statistical methods in detecting differential expressed genes, analyzing insertion tolerance for genes and group selection for survival data, 2015. Now Manager of Statistics at Pfizer.
  8. Yaqing Si, Statistics. Statistical analysis of RNA-seq data, 2012. Now Associate Professor at the School of Statistics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan, China.
  9. Megan Orr (Co-Major Professor: Dan Nettleton), Statistics. Assessing differential expression when the distribution of effect sizes is asymmetric and evaluating concordance of differential expression across multiple gene expression experiments, 2012. Now a tenure-track Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University.
  10. Tieming Ji (Co-Major Professor: Dan Nettleton, Pat Schnable), Statistics & Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Borrowing information across genes and experiments for improved error variance estimation in microarray data analysis and statistical inferences for gene expression heterosis, 2011. Now a tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Missouri.
  11. Haibo Liu (Co-Major Professor: Chris Tuggle), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Swine Blood Transcriptomics: Application and Advancement, 2017. Now a Bioinformatician at University of Massachusetts Medical School.
  12. Hye Jin Cho (Co-Major Professor: Hui-Hsien Chou), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Prediction, Experiment Design and Statistical Validations of Non-Coding Regulatory RNA, 2015. Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
  13. Ali Berens (Co-Major Professor: Amy Toth), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Sociogenomics of social organization: Mechanistic and evolutionary underpinnings of caste development and facial recognition in paper wasps, 2015. Now a Data Scientist at Monsanto Company.
  14. Srihari Radhakrishnan (Co-Major Professor: Nicole Valenzuela), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. On the causes and consequences of sex determination and sex-linkage, 2015. Now a Bioinformatics Scientist at Arc Bio.

MS students

  1. David Walker, Statistics. Developing Variational Bayesian Inference for Applications to Gene Expression Data, 2021. Now a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Peng Liu.
  2. Lauren McKeen (Co-Major Professor: Chong Wang), Statistics. Set Testing Methods for Microbiome Data, 2020.
  3. Hao Wang (Co-Major Professor: Yumou Qiu), Statistics. Gene Co-expression Network Reconstruction with c-level Partial Correlation Graph, 2019. Now a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Peng Liu.
  4. Ran Bi , Statistics. Sample size calculation while controlling false discovery rate for differential expression analysis with RNA-seq Data, 2014. Graduated with Phd degree advised by Dr. Peng Liu in 2018, now working at FDA.
  5. Yingzhou Du (Co-Major Professor: Chong Wang), Statistics. A Permutation Test of Genetic Association between Salmonella Isolated On-farm and At-abattoir using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism, 2014. Now a Statistical Consultant at DuPont Pioneer.
  6. William Landau , Statistics. Dispersion Estimation and Its Effect on Test Performance in RNA-seq Data Analysis: A Comparison of Methods, 2013. Now a Research Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company.
  7. Yanwen Xiong, Statistics. Comparison of normalization methods for RNA-seq data analysis, 2012. Now Development Lead at Monsanto Company.
  8. Vanessa Kvam, Statistics. A comparison of statistical methods for detecting differentially expressed genes from RNA-seq data, 2011. Now a Senior Biostatistician at AT Still University.
  9. Hong Hua, Statistics. Microarray data analysis for a study of photosynthesis differentiation in maize, 2009. Now a Senior Business analyst at Hewlett-Packard in China.