Zehang Richard Li

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of California Santa Cruz

Email: lizehang (at) ucsc.edu
Google Scholar: Zehang Richard Li
Github: @richardli
Twitter: @z_richard_li

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PhD students

Yu (Zoey) Zhu, PhD Statistics

Toshiya Yoshida, PhD Statistics

Sho Kawano, PhD Statistics (co-advising with Paul Parker)

Qianyu Dong, PhD Statistics

Master students

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.

Research Assistants

Ewan Whittaker-Walker, MS Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, UCSC

• 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.

Some of my current collaborators

The OpenVA team

The STAB Lab