Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Saidi Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023), Currently Lecturer at Henan University, China.

Daria Merkurjev, Postdoc (Jan to Aug 2017), Currently Bioinformatics Scientist at Providence Health & Services.

PhD Students

Guanao Yan, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2020-2025), Currently Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering at Michigan State University.

Christy Lee, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2020-2025).

Dongyuan Song, PhD student in Bioinformatics IDP at UCLA (2019-2024), Currently Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at University of Connecticut Health Center.

Xinzhou Ge, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2016-2021); Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2023), Currently Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University.

Tianyi Sun, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2017-2023), Next Biostatistician at U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Currently Biostatistician at Foundation Medicine.

Kexin Li, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2018-2023), Currently Data Scientist at Microsoft.

Heather Zhou, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2018-2023), Currently Postdoctoral Researcher at City of Hope.

Yidan Sun, PhD Student in Statistics (2015-2021), Currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at UC Santa Barbara.

Nan Miles Xi, PhD Student in Statistics (2016-2021), Next Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola University of Chicago, Currently Senior Manager at Abbvie.

Yiling Chen, PhD Student in Statistics (2016-2021), Next Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Wei Li’s Lab at UC Irvine, Currently Statistical Scientist at Genentech.

Ruochen Jiang, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2016-2021), Currently Bioinformatics Scientist in Veracyte Inc.

Wenbin Guo, PhD student in Bioinformatics IDP (2018-2021), Currently PhD student in the Dr. Matteo Pellegrini’s Lab at UCLA.

Wei Vivian Li, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2014-2019), Next Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers University, Currently Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at UC Riverside.

Zahra Razaee, PhD Student in Statistics at UCLA (2014-2017), Next Postdoctoral Scientist at Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai, Currently Senior Data Scientist at Kite Pharma.

Masters, Undergrads and Visiting Students Alumni