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Wu Lab


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Dr. Zheyang Wu


    Principal Investigator
    Here is my CV in the WPI format.

Xiaohui Chen


    Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
    Research topics:
  • Data-adaptive and correlation-robust p-value combination methods for global hypothesis tests with applications to whole genome sequencing studies
  • Statistical inference based on missing data, especially the multiple imputation methods for the last phase of clinical trials in the COVID-19 pandemic

Ming Liu


    Ph.D. Candidate in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    Research topics:
  • Data integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and its application to complex human diseases
  • Statistical methods and efficient algorithms to detect novel genetic factors of diseases

Shuaichuan Feng


    Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
    Research topics:
  • Statistical genetics

Shaoming Yin


    Ph.D. Student in Data Science
    Research topics:
  • Statistical methodology development for designing, conducting, and analyzing clinical trials and observational/real-world data (RWD) studies for clinical drug development and biomedical research.
  • Development and application of statistical and machine learning approaches for personalized medicine (e.g., biomarker discovery, subgroup identification, patient outcome prediction, signal detection for clinical trial monitoring).

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Yifan Ma


    M.S. student in Applied Statistics
    Research topics:
  • Sample size calculation for predictive studies

Alumni


Postdocs

    Dr. Gonzalo Contador Revetria Andres
    2019 -- 2022 (co-advised with Prof. Frank Zou)
    now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM)
    Dr. Yevgeniy M Ptukhin
    2018 -- 2019 (co-advised with Prof. Frank Zou)
    now Assistant Professor of Statistics at Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Monmouth College

Doctoral students

    Dr. Hong Zhang (PhD in Statistics)
    Graduated in 2018
    Thesis: Novel P-Value Combination Method for Signal Detection in Large-Scale Data Analysis
    now Associate Director, Translational Biomarker Statistics, Pfizer.

Master’s students

    Ruosi Zhang (MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
    Graduated in 2019
    Master's Thesis: Simulations of Different P-value Combination Methods Using SNPs at Diverse Biology Levels.
    Yibo Wu (MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
    Graduated in 2019
    Master's Thesis: Genome Studies of Gene Expression and Alternative Splicing During iPSC Skeletal Muscle Induction and Differentiation.
    now Data Scientist at Gentuity, LLC.
    Siqin Li (MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
    Graduated in 2018
    Master's Thesis: Genome Studies of Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression during iPSC Skeletal Muscle Induction and Differentiation.
    now IS Programmer/Analyst at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
    Xiaohui Chen (MS in Applied Statistics)
    Graduated in 2018
    Master's Thesis: Bahadur Efficiencies for Statistics of Truncated $P$-Value Combination Methods.
    now PhD Candidate at WPI
    Jiadong Fang (MS in Applied Statistics)
    Graduated in 2018
    Master's Thesis: Calculating One-sided $P$-Value for TFisher Under Correlated Data.
    now PhD Candidate at Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
    Xue Li (MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
    Graduated in 2015
    Master's Thesis: Predicting Gene Expression through Integrating Epigenetic Data by Mixed-Effect Model.
    now PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics at UMass Chan Medical School
    Jason Kost (MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
    Graduated in 2015
    Master's Thesis: Exome Sequencing Data Process and Analysis for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (related publication on Neuron).
    now Bioinformatics Engineer at Catalytic Data Science

Bachelor’s students

    Yilan Liu (BS in Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science)
    Graduated in 2014
    MQP: GPU-Accelerated Computation for Statistical Analysis of the Next-Generation Sequencing Data.
    now Software Engineer at Google