OUR TEAM

Curent PhD Students

  • Di Wang

    2020 - present

    Research Topic: Kullback-Leibler-based relative risk models for integration of multiple data sources

    The Student Paper Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) of the American Statistical Association, Paper Competition from the 36th New England Statistics Symposium

  • Yubo Shao

    2022 - present

    Yu bo’s current research focuses on provider profiling, high - dimensional variable selection and survival analysis. In addition to research, he is also a big fan of soccer, a good photographer and a good cook.

  • Xiangeng Fang

    2022 - present

    Xiangeng has broad interests in developing statistical and computational methods with application in biomedical data. His current work mainly focuses on data integration, deep learning and survival analysis. Apart from studying, he enjoys doing sports, playing video games and watching movies.

  • Lingxuan Kong

    Joint with Lu Wang, 2022 - present

    Lingxuan’s research interests are developing dynamic treatment regimes for kidney transplantation using survival outcomes and standardization methods for evaluating medical center performances. In field s other than academic, he has motorcycle license and is good at cooking seafood.

  • Ruiwen Zhou

    Joint with Alex Tsoi, 2023 - present

    Ruiwen is interested in applying statistical and computational methods to gain biological insights from varies biomedical data including microbiome and genetics data, as well as genome-wide association studies. In addition to his research work, he has a passion for classical music and enjoys playing the violin.

  • Qinmengge Li

    Joint with Alex Tsoi and Jiang Kang, 2020 - present

    Research Topic: Multi-view learning to assess drug response for psoriatic patients using multi-omics data

    the Student Paper Award from the Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Section of the American Statistical Association

  • Feiyang Deng

    2024 - present

    Feiyang is passionate about statistical theory and its application to medical data. His current research interests include survival analysis, deep learning, and data integration. Outside of academia, he enjoys mountain climbing, hiking, and exploring diverse cuisines.

  • Lin Yin Guo

    2024 - present

    Lin Yin is working on federated learning in different data sharing scenarios. He is also interested in developing methods in distributed and parallel computing. Besides studying and researching, he is an enjoyer of classical music.

Current Staff

Xiaohan Liu

2024 - present

Software Developer, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan

As a software developer, Xiaohan is responsible for creating and maintaining R and Python software packages. She also works on optimizing code in R, Python, C++, and Spark, and maintains a website that catalogs these packages

Past PhD Students

  • Wenbo Wu Ph.D

    Graduated 2022

    New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Assistant Professor (tenure track), Division of Biostatistics, Dept of Population Health Sep 2022 – present

    Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine

  • Nicholas Hartman Ph.D

    Graduated 2022

    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan

  • Lingfeng Luo Ph.D

    Graduated 2024

    Software Development Lead, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, University of Michigan

  • Xuemei Ding

    Graduated 2023

    Principal Clinical Data Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, Shanghai.