The faculty and staff of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics are proud to announce this year’s 28 graduates. The graduates represent a mix of students. Nine students graduated from our MS in Biomedical Data Science Program and 19 students graduated from MS and PhD programs housed in different departments.
Please join us in congratulating these graduates on their accomplishments and wishing them the best in their future endeavors.
2020 Graduates
| wdt_ID | Name | Degree and Program column | Advisor | Next Steps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dandi Chen | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Mark Craven | UW-Madison's PhD in Population Health program |
| 2 | Lianlian Du | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Rick Chappell | UW-Madison's PhD in Biomedical Data Science program |
| 3 | Jifan Gao | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Assistant Professor Guanhua Chen and Professor Mark Craven | UW-Madison's PhD in Clinical Investigation program |
| 4 | Yujia Shi | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Colin Dewey | Chinese University of Hong Kong's PhD in Biomedical Data Sciences program |
| 5 | Alexandra Spicer | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Karl Broman | Data Scientist in Dr. Matthew Churpek's Data Science Group at the University Hospital in Madison |
| 6 | Noah Stafford | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Associate Professor Sushmita Roy | Summer internship at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery |
| 7 | Matt Stone | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Karl Broman, Professor Mark Craven, and Associate Professor Sushmita Roy | Data Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle, Washington |
| 8 | Keith Westphal | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Professor Mark Craven | Data Analytics Consultant to the United States Air Force |
| 9 | Thevaa Chandereng | PhD in Statistics, with the Biostatistics Degree Option | Professor Richard Chappell | Postdoctoral training with Ken Cheung in Columbia University's Biostatistics Department. |
| 10 | Jiawen Chen | MS in Data Science | Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's PhD in Biostatistics program |
| 11 | Niveditha Hariharan | MS in Computer Science | Professor Colin Dewey | Software Engineer at NetApp in Waltham, Massachusetts |
| 12 | Zixuan Huang | MS in Computer Science | Assistant Professor Yin Li | Georgia Tech's PhD in Computer Science program |
| 13 | Stewart Kerr | MS in Computer Science | Professor Menggang Yu | A search for the perfect opportunity |
| 14 | Yi Li | PhD in Statistics | Assistant Professor Lu Mao | Quantitative Associate at JP Morgan Chase & Company in Dallas, Texas. |
| 15 | Guangi Lu | MS in Data Science | Professor Sunduz Keles | Michigan State University's PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics program |
| 16 | Lan Luo | PhD in Statistics | Professor Jun Zhu and Assistant Professor Zhengzheng Tang | Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences for Merck & Company, Inc., in Rahway, New Jersey |
| 17 | Chaoqun Mei | PhD in Clinical Investigation | Professor Richard Chappell | Manager of Statistics for Pharm SCI & PGS Statistics at Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development in Connecticut. |
| 18 | Jiacheng Miao | MS in Data Science | Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu | UW Madison's PhD in Biomedical Data Science program |
| 19 | Zheng Ni | MS in Data Science | Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu | Iowa State University's PhD in Industrial Engineering program |
| 20 | Daniel Panyard | PhD in Epidemiology | Professor Corinne Engelman and Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu | Postdoctoral fellowship in Michael Snyder's group at Stanford University |
| 21 | Siqi Shen | MS in Data Science | Professor Sunduz Keles | UW Madison's PhD in Biomedical Data Science program |
| 22 | Jiantong Wang | MS in Data Science | Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu | University of Cincinnati's PhD in Business Analytics program |
| 23 | Tianjie Wang | PhD in Statistics | Professor Menggang Yu | Quantitative Associate at Wells Fargo |
| 24 | Ziyou Wang | PhD in Statistics | Professor Christina Kendziorski | Postdoctoral training with Alison Motsinger-Reif, Chief of the Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch at the National Institutes of Health |
| 25 | Zhoujingpeng Wei | MS in Data Science | Assistant Professor Zhengzheng Tang | UW-Madison's PhD in Biomedical Data Science program |
| 26 | Wenbo Wei | MS in Data Science | Professor Sunduz Keles | Columbia University's PhD in Biostatistics program |
| 27 | Mufang Ying | MS in Statistics | Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang | Rutgers University's PhD in Statistics program |
| 28 | Chitrasen Mohanty | MS in Biomedical Data Science | Christina Kendziorski | PhD in Biomedical Data Science Program |
| Name | Degree and Program column | Advisor | Next Steps |