Current Advisees (in alphabetical order)
- Thanasi Bakis, UCI Statistics PhD student
- Damon Bayer, UCI Statistics PhD student
- Isaac Goldstein, UCI Statistics PhD student
- Yushang Lai, UCI Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology PhD Student, co-advised with John Lowengrub
- Catalina Medina, UCI Statistics PhD student
- Jessalyn Sebastian, UCI Statistis PhD student
Past Advisees
PhD Students (in reverse chronological order), Math Genealogy page
- Andy Magee, PhD, UW Biology (2021), co-advised with Eric Matsen
Dissertation: Reliable and interpretable inference of evolutionary history using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches
Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
- Mingwei Tang, PhD, UW Statistics PhD (2019)
Dissertation: Fitting stochastic epidemic models to multiple data types
Current position: Data Scientist, Facebook
- Amrit Dhar, PhD, UW Statistics (2019), co-advised with Eric Matsen
Dissertation: Large-scale B cell receptor sequence analysis using phylogenetics and machine learning
Current position: Statistician, Google
- Jim Faulkner, PhD, UW QERM (2019)
Dissertation: Adaptive Bayesian nonparametric smoothing with Markov random fields and shrinkage priors
Current position: Mathematical Statistician, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
- Jon Fintzi, PhD, UW Biostatistics (2018), co-advised with Jon Wakefield
Dissertation: Bayesian modeling of partially observed epidemic count data
Current position: Mathematical Statistician, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Michael Karcher, PhD, UW Statistics (2018)
Dissertation: Preferential sampling and model checking in phylodynamic inference
Current position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Muhlenberg College
- Jason Xu, PhD, UW Statistics (2016)
Dissertation: Likelihood-based inference for partially observed multi-type Markov branching processes
Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University
- Jan Irvahn, PhD, UW Statistics (2016)
Dissertation: Phylogenetic stochastic mapping
Current position: Statistician, Boeing
- Amanda Koepke, PhD, UW Statistics (2015), co-advised with Ira Longini
Dissertation: Predictive modeling of cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh
Current position: Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Jane Lange, PhD, UW Biostatistics (2014)
Dissertation: Latent continuous time Markov chains for partially-observed multistate disease processes
Current position: Staff Scientist, Oregon Health & Science University
- Peter Chi, PhD, UW Biostatistics (2013)
Dissertation: Problems in pedigrees and phylogenies
Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Villanova University
- Julia Palacios, PhD, UW Statistics (2013)
Dissertation: Bayesian nonparametric inference of effective population size trajectories from genomic data
Current position: Assistant Professor at Stanford University
- Soyoung Ryu, PhD, UW Statistics (2011), co-advised with Dave Goodlett
Dissertation: Statistical approaches to analyze mass spectrometry data
Current posision: Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Nevada, Reno
Postdoctoral Scholars (in reverse chronological order)
- Jamie Oaks, UW Biology NSF Biological Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2016), co-mentored with Adam Leaché
Current position: Assistant Professor, Auburn University
- Charles Linkem, UW Biology NSF Biological Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2015), co-mentored with Adam Leaché
Current position: Sr. Computational Biologist, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
Research Assistants (in reverse chronological order)
- Jessica George, BS, UCI Data Science (2020)
Research project: COVID-19 trends at UC Irvine and Orange County, CA
Current position: Data Scientist, AbbVie Inc.
- Thanasi Bakis, MS, UCI Statistics (2020)
Research project: COVID-19 trends at UC Irvine and Orange County, CA
Current position: MS Student, UCI Statistics Department
- Xiaoxiao Li, BS, UW Statistics (2016)
Research project: Predicting seasonal human influenza evolution
Current position: PhD Student, Penn State Statistics Department
- Charles Doss, Graduate Research Assistant (2009-2010)
Research project: Fitting birth-death processes to panel data
Current position: Associate Professor at University of Minnesota
- Dustin Lennon, MS, UW Statistics (2010)
Research project: Measuring microsatellite conservation with a phylogenetic birth-death model
Current position: Statistical Consultant, Inferentialist, LLC
Last modified: September, 2022