Current PhD Students

Ariel is a PhD candidate at YSPH in the Biostatistics Department. She is working on methods that address mismeasured clusters in cluster-randomized trials when evaluating causal effects in the presence of spillover, and applying these methods to HIV prevention trials.

Meet Yale School of Public Health's Tianqi Chen.

My personal website can be found here.

I am interested in the areas of statistical genetics and epigenetics. Currently I am working on both developing novel methodologies and applying these methods to address real-world problems. My recent projects focus on methylation quantitative trait loci and substance-use disorders.

Meet Yale School of Public Health's Yi Dai.

Samantha Dean is a third year biostatistics PhD student. She is interested in statistical methods for infectious disease epidemiology and causal inference. She currently works with Professor Forrest Crawford and Professor Laura Forastiere. Previously, she worked as a Postbac IRTA fellow in the Epidemiology Unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Zihan is a third-year PhD student in Biostatistics. His research focus on developing advanced methods for genetic association data, including mediation analysis and Gene-Environment interactions on human complex traits.

Meet Yale School of Public Health's Zach Frere.

Yue Hu is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Biostatistics. Her research interests encompass various areas, including genetics, nonparametric statistical methods, and longitudinal data analysis. Her dissertation is focusing on developing nonparametric statistical methods that can incorporate environmental information in genetic studies.

Chen Lin is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biostatistics. He is working in Zhao Lab, interested in developing statistical methods for genetic and genomic data.

Claudia Mastrogiacomo is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics on the Implementation Science pathway. She is interested in causal inference and Bayesian statistics.

Melody is a second year PhD Biostatistics student. Before coming to Yale, she worked as a biostatistician conducting network meta-analyses for clinical trial data. Melody earned a Master's in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor's from Amherst College where she double majored in mathematics and statistics. She is focused on researching implementation science methodology and expanding the field of animal public health with a focus on animal welfare and animal health policy.