Current Postdocs

• Xianshi Yu (joint with Akbar Waljee)

Current PhD Students

• Yumu Liu
• Hyesun Yoo
• Xuefei Zhang
• Weijing Tang

Past Postdocs

• Wenshuo Liu (2017-2019, joint with Brahmajee Nallamothu)
  First employment: Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Interactions

• Gun-Woong Park (2016-2018, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  First employment: Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Seoul (in South Korea)

• Xiaohang Zhang (2015-2018, joint with Su-Bang Choe)
  Currently working as Professor in the School of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (in China)

Past PhD Students

• Wenyi Wu (2019)
  Thesis title: Scalable classification methods with applications to healthcare claims and automotive dealership data
  First employment: Amazon

• Boang Liu
  Thesis title: Statistical learning for networks with node features
  First employment: Data Scientist at Google

• Tianxi Li (2018, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Statistical tools for network data: prediction and resampling
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Statistics at University of Virginia

• Yun-Jhong Wu (2017, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Link prediction and denoising in networks
  First employment: Senior Quantitative Researcher at Akuna Capital

• Cheng Qian (2017)
  Thesis title: Some advances on modeling high-dimensional data with complex structures
  First employment: Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics at Southeast University (in China)

• Yuan Zhang (2016, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Statistical network analysis - beyond block models
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University

• Yiwei Zhang (2016)
  Thesis title: Some contributions to regularization and optimization methods for high-dimensional data
  First employment: Merck; currently working as Associate Principal Scientist at Merck

• Zhanyang Zhang (2014, joint with Vijay Nair)
  Thesis title: Predictive models and calibration analysis in large-scale computational studies
  First employment: Bank of America; currently working as Machine Learning and AI Research Lead at Wells Fargo

• Ashin Mukherjee (2013, joint with Naisyin Wang)
  Thesis title: Topics on reduced rank methods for multivariate regression
  First employment: Walmart Labs; currently working as Director of Data Science at Quantifind

• Jie Cheng (2013, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Mixed and covariate dependent graphical models
  First employment: Google; currently working at Snapchat

• Yun Li (2012, joint with Naisyin Wang)
  Thesis title: Statistical parameter estimation for ordinary differential equations
  First employment: Post-doctoral researcher, Boston University; currently working at PubMatic

• Yunpeng Zhao (2012, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Statistical inference for some problems in network analysis
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Statistics, George Mason University; currently working as Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State University

• Jian Guo (2011, joint with Elizaveta Levina and George Michailidis)
  Thesis title: Statistical problems in high-dimensional unsupervised learning
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University; currently working as CEO at DeepX Asset Management (in China)

• Adam Rothman (2010, joint with Elizaveta Levina)
  Thesis title: Estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota; currently working as Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Statistics at University of Minnesota

• Nam-Hee Choi (2009, joint with Kerby Shedden)
  Thesis title: Investigation of smooth and non-smooth penalties for regularized model selection in regression
  First employment: Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan; currently working at US Food and Drug Administration

• Lacey Gunter (2009, joint with Susan Murphy)
  Thesis title: Variable selection for decision making
  Currently working as an independent consultant and adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University

• Nengfeng Zhou (2009)
  Thesis title: Sparse model identification for high dimensional data
  First employment: Bank of America; currently working as Quantitative Analytics Consultant at Wells Fargo

• Sijian Wang (2008, joint with Bin Nan, Biostatistics)
  Thesis title: High-dimensional survival data analysis and its application to microarray data
  First employment: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin; currently working as Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers University

• Li Wang (2008, joint with Michael Gordon, Business School)
  Thesis title: Efficient regularized solution path algorithms with applications in machine learning and data mining
  First employment: BlackRock; currently working as CEO at Harvest Asset Management (in China)

• Youjuan Li (2007)
  Thesis title: Efficient computation and model selection for regularized quantile regression
  First employment: Google; currently working as Head of Siri Search Analytics at Apple