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Join our group: We are always looking for motivated and hard-working people interested in (1) Bayesian modeling, (2) statistical ML, and (3) methods bridging statistical theory and modern AI/ML techniques, and their applications to improve public and global health. If you want to get involved, please send an email.
Please refer to our lab/group manual for more information on the culture and policies in our group.
Working groups
PhD students
- Yu (Zoey) Zhu, PhD Statistics (2025)
- Dissertation: Bayesian Latent Variable Model for Quantification Learning in Mortality Surveillance
- First position: Research Scientist, Meta
- Sho Kawano, PhD Statistics (co-advising with Paul Parker)
- Qianyu Dong, PhD Statistics
- Jibo Shen, PhD Statistics
- Evelyn Kimbirk, PhD Statistics
- Jason Teng, PhD Statistics
Master students
- Toshiya Yoshida, MS Statistics (2025)
- Thesis: Bayesian active questionnaire design for cause-of-death assignment using verbal autopsies.
- First position: Data Scientist, CARTA Holdings.
- Gulzina Kuttubekova, MS Statistics (2021)
- Thesis: Sketching algorithms for clustering high dimensional data.
- First position: Data Scientist, Meta.
- Ricardo Figueroa-Ordaz, MS Statistics (2021)
- Thesis: Evaluating symptom importance in verbal autopsy surveys: a case study of questionnaire reduction.
- First position: Business Analyst, Barry-Wehmiller.
Research Assistants
- Ewan Whittaker-Walker, MS Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, UCSC (2023 - 2025)
- Project: Risk mapping dashboard for California farmworker community health.
- Veda Duddu, BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Ashoka University (2023)
- Project: Causal inference for policy evaluation.
- First position: MS in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Jing Qian, MS Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2023)
- Project: Label combination in classification problems.
- First position: PhD in Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder
- Yanda Tao, MS Management in Analytics, McGill University (2021)
- Project: NLP methods for classifying cause of death with verbal autopsy narratives.
- First position: PhD in Information System, McGill University.