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.

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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.

Interested in statistics and biostatistics research, especially in genomics and neuroimaging data analysis.

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 second-year PhD student in Biostatistics. His research focus on refining the genetic basis for lung conditions and related phenotypes by developing and applying statistical methods.

Yue Hu is a third-year Ph.D. student in Biostatistics. She is interested in research fields, including genetics, nonparametric statistical methods and longitudinal data analysis. She is recently working on a project using nonparametric statistical methods to identify associations between health-related covariates and the change of calories burned in overweight population.

Chen Lin is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biostatistics. He is interested in methodologies of genetic and genomic data in Zhao Lab. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Sydney and Texas A&M University to develop a collinearity diagnostic framework and lasso-related methodology.

First year PhD student

Yunqing Liu is currently a third-year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale University. Her main research interests focus on statistical modeling to address scientific problems in genomics and immunology, particularly in applications to biomarker identification. Current research is about developing statistical methods in differential gene expression analysis in single-cell RNA sequencing data and immune cell repertoire.

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.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. I am co-advised by Dr. Hongyu Zhao and Dr. Zhou Fan. My research interests lie in developing statistical methods for high-dimensional data from genomics and genetics. My recent work focus on co-expression network inference using single cell and bulk transcriptomics data, and the advancement of principal component analysis with Empirical Bayes ideas.

Jinghao Sun is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Biostatistics. He works with Dr. Forrest Crawford on causal inference and epidemiology.