For a detailed list of people (collaborators and mentees), please refer to my curriculum vitae
Former PhD Students
[11] Jaylen Lee
Ph.D. 2022, University of California, Irvine
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian State Space Models for Dynamic Functional Connectivity using fMRI Data
[10] Laura D’Angelo
Ph.D. 2022, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Università Bicocca, Milano
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian Modeling of Calcium Imaging Data
Co-Advisor with Antonio Canale, Università degli Studi di Padova
[9] Wei Zhang
(Ph.D. 2021, Bocconi University (with honors)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Università della Svizzera italiana
PhD Thesis Title: Scalable Bayesian dynamic regression in neuroimaging
Co-advisor with Prof. Sonia Petrone, Bocconi University
[8] Francesco Denti
Ph.D. 2020, Joint Ph.D. University of Milan-Bicocca and Universita' della Svizzera italiana (with honores)
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Babak Shahbaba at UCI
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian mixtures for large scale inference
Co-advisor with Prof. Antonietta Mira, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, and Prof. Fulvia Mecatti, University of Milan-Bicocca
[7] Ryan Warnick
PhD 2018, Rice University
Current Position: Computational Scientist at the British Petroleum Center for High Performance Computing.
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian Joint Graphical Modeling Approaches for Covariance and Dynamic Functional Connectivity Analysis from Neuroimaging Data
Awarded a 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
[6] Lechuan Hu
Ph.D. 2018, University of California, Irvine
Current Position: Data Scientist II, Amazon
PhD Thesis Title: Modeling Connectivity in Multi-trial Brain Signals
Co-Advising with Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
[5] Xiao Li
Ph.D., 2018, University of Texas Health Sciences
Current Position: PHC (Omics and Imaging) Senior Data Scientist/Statistician at Genentech
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian spatial and nonparametric models for cancer radiomics
Co-Advising with Brian Hobbs, University of Texas, Austin
[4] William Duncan Wadsworth
Ph.D. 2016, Rice University
Current Position: Data Scientisti, Microsoft
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian Methods for the Analysis of Microbiome Data
[3] Sharon Chiang
Ph.D. 2016, Rice University
Current Position: Resident Physician at University of California, San Francisco
PhD Thesis Title: Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Multimodal Neuroimaging Data
Awarded a 3-year NLM Training Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics.
Co-Advising with Marina Vannucci, Rice University
[2] Linlin Zhang
Ph.D. 2015, Rice University
Current Position: Data Scientist at ExxonMobil
PhD Thesis Title: Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data
Honorable mention, 2015 ISBA Savage Award for Best Thesis in Applied Methodology.
Co-Advising with Marina Vannucci, Rice University
[1] Yan Dong
Ph.D. 2015, University of New Mexico
Current Position: Research Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company
PhD Thesis Title: Nonparametric Bayes approach for a Semi-Mechanistic Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Model
Postdoctoral Trainees
Alberto Cassese
08/2014--06/2015
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University
Current Position Assistant Professor, University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" (DiSIA)
Bernardo Nipoti
01/2012–08/2012
The University of Texas MD~Anderson Cancer Center
Current Position Associate Professor of Statistics Department of Economics, Management and Statistics Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Kassie Fronczyk
10/2011--07/2014
The University of Texas MD~Anderson Cancer Center & Rice University,
Current Position Data Scientist at Leidos