Current PhD Students

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.

Zihan is a last-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 is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics. She completed her bachelor's degree in Statistics at Sun Yat-sen University before joining Yale. Yue's research interests encompass various areas, including genetics and nonparametric statistical methods. Her dissertation is focusing on developing nonparametric statistical methods that can incorporate environmental information in genetic studies. Additionally, Yue is actively involved in projects employing various genetic methods to identify novel genetic variants associated with learning disabilities.

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 fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics on the Implementation Science pathway. She is interested in Bayesian methods for causal inference.

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.