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

  1. 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
  2. Mingwei Tang, PhD, UW Statistics PhD (2019)
     Dissertation: Fitting stochastic epidemic models to multiple data types
     Current position: Data Scientist, Facebook
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Jan Irvahn, PhD, UW Statistics (2016)
     Dissertation: Phylogenetic stochastic mapping
     Current position: Statistician, Boeing
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Peter Chi, PhD, UW Biostatistics (2013)
      Dissertation: Problems in pedigrees and phylogenies
      Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Villanova University
  12. 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
  13. 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)

  1. Jamie Oaks, UW Biology NSF Biological Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2016), co-mentored with Adam Leaché
     Current position: Assistant Professor, Auburn University
  2. 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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Xiaoxiao Li, BS, UW Statistics (2016)
     Research project: Predicting seasonal human influenza evolution
     Current position: PhD Student, Penn State Statistics Department
  4. Charles Doss, Graduate Research Assistant (2009-2010)
     Research project: Fitting birth-death processes to panel data
     Current position: Associate Professor at University of Minnesota
  5. 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