ScM Biostatistics Alumni

Master of Science (ScM) Alumni

The Biostatistics ScM program is intended for individuals who have demonstrated excellence at the undergraduate level in quantitative or biological sciences and desire a career as a professional statistician.

A list of our current ScM students can be found here.

2020-2025 ScM Alumni

Year	Name	Thesis Title	Adviser(s)	Position
2024-25	Xiyao Zou	A Survival Tree Approach for Risk-Adjusted Time-to-Event Modeling: Integrating Absolute Risk and Biomarker-Driven Splitting	Yuxin Zhu	Eli Lilly
2024-25	Alexander Zhong	Competing Risks Analysis for a COVID-19 Clinical Trial	Mei-Cheng Wang
2024-25	Ziying Yang	A Comparison of Methods to Identify Intervention Targets to Reduce Disparities across Intersectional Groups Using Causal Decomposition Analysis	John Jackson
2024-25	Jiayi Xue	Developing Statistical Models for Cardiovascular Disease Real-Time Dynamic Prediction	Ni Zhao
2024-25	Yuhan Xiao	Enhancing Survival Prediction Models: Insights on Biomarker Inclusion and Model Updating	Chen Hu
2024-25	Chuyi Sun	Multiple Outputation as a Regression Strategy for Complex Multilevel Data	Jiangxia Wang
2024-25	Joshua Stim	Leveraging Meta-Analytic Topic Maps to Identify and Remove Residual Motion Artifacts from fMRI Data	Martin Lindquist
2024-25	Jian (Daniel) Ruan	Developing and Evaluating Spatial Statistical Models for Predicting Presence: Application to the State of New York	Frank Curriero	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
2024-25	Shu Luan	Autoencoder-Based Deep Learning Methods for Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics	Brian Caffo; Stephanie Hicks
2024-25	Zixing (Peter) Liu	Statistical Methods for Etiologic Associations and Individualized Prediction of Muscle Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis	Ji Soo Kim; Scott Zeger
2024-25	Kedi Le	Prediction of Spatially Resolved Chromatin Accessibility Using Spatial Transcriptomics Data	Weiqiang (Ken) Zhou	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2024-25	Jiaxin (Jessi) Huang	Time-Dependent Cox Model for Long Asymptomatic Malaria Infections within a Longitudinal Cohort in a High Transmission Area	Mei-Cheng Wang
2024-25	Christine Hou	Developing Multiple R/Bioconductor Packages for: 1) Hubmapr Data Retrieval, 2) Data Storage, and 3) Biased Feature Identification in Spatially-Resolved Transcriptomics Data	Stephanie Hicks	Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health
2024-25	Nora Elhaissouni	Design Considerations for Quality Improvement Studies with No Concurrent Controls	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2023-24	Tianxu Chen	A Novel Approach to Computationally Efficient and Transparent Multivariate Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling with Application to Estimate the Treatment Effects of a Schizophrenia Antipsychotic Drug	Scott Zeger
2023-24	Yixuan Chen	Advancements for Differential Methylation Analysis: Single-Case Optimization, Method Evaluation, and Nanopore Sequencing Applications	Kasper Hansen	Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
2023-24	Jiaqi Cheng	A Trajectory-Based Differential Expression Analysis Framework with Multiple Single-Cell RNA-seq Samples	Hongkai Ji	Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health
2023-24	Zhirui Fu	Semiparametric Change Point Model for Survival Outcomes in the Presence of a U-Shaped Risk	Yuxin Zhu; Hongkai Ji	Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
2023-24	Franklin Fuchs	Enhancing DataTrail Data Science Education: The BaltimoreTrails R Package And Shiny Web-App	Michael Rosenblum	Pfizer
2023-24	Yangzhenyu Gao	Cross-Species Integration of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data	Hongkai Ji	Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2023-24	Siyao Li	Evaluation of Covariates Adjustment Approaches on Estimands of Time-to-Event Outcomes	Chen Hu	Graduate Group in Biostatistics, UC Davis
2023-24	Weishan Li	Characterizing Intra-and Inter-Tumor Heterogeneity in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Subtypes Using Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics	Stephanie Hicks
2023-24	Darren Lin	Overview of Statistical Methods for T-Cell Receptor Sequencing Analysis	Ni Zhao	Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health
2023-24	Mincen Liu	Addressing Confounding in Evaluations of Public Health Policies with Staggered Implementation: A Comparison of Statistical Methods	Elizabeth Stuart	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University School of Population & Global Health
2023-24	Tingxi (Tina) Long	Imputation of Missing Data in Developing Predictive Model of Time-to-Event Outcomes: A Simulation Study and Case Study	Chen Hu	Analysis Group
2023-24	Daniel (Alejandro) Lopez	Exploring the Properties of the dM Test for Epigenetic Selection and Recovering Time-Ordering of Sinusoidal Functions with Varying Periodicities	Kasper Hansen
2023-24	Jiuyao Lu	Identifying Unmeasured Heterogeneity in Microbiome Data via Quantile Thresholding (QuanT)	Ni Zhao	Department of Statistics & Data Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2023-24	Jizhou Tian	A Two-Stage Mixture Model for Bivariate Competing Events	Mei-Cheng Wang	Department of Biostatistics, Brown University School of Public Health
2023-24	Elizabeth Wagner	Exploring the Impact of Measurement Changes on Causal Inference in Longitudinal Data: A Descriptive Study	Elizabeth Chin	Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2023-24	Zixiao Wang	Identification and Estimation for Nonignorable Missing Data: A Data Fusion Approach	Ilya Shpitser	Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2023-24	Haoxue Xiang	Evaluating the Effect of Baseline on the Rate of Recovery from a Stressor in Single-Arm Studies of Resilience	Ravi Varadhan	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2023-24	Zhichen Xiong	Predicting Micronutrient Deficiencies Using Proteomics Data via Quantile Matching	Ni Zhao	Eli Lilly
2023-24	Yan Zhang	Fingerprinting of Walking Using Data from Wrist and Ankle-Worn Accelerometers	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Ciprian Crainiceanu
2023-24	Angela Zhao	Predicting Time-to-Event Incidence of Neurological Diseases and Mortality Using Objective Physical Activity Measures in the UK Biobank	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2022-23	Yuji Chen	An Adapted Bootstrap for Trials that Enroll until a Fixed Number of Events Are Observed: Application to the TREAT Parents Trial	Elizabeth Colantuoni	University of Maryland, Baltimore
2022-23	Zhaoyi Ding	Quantifying the Impact of Changes in Clinical Practice in the Medical ICU on Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with ARDS: A Causal Analysis	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2022-23	Yiwen Dong	Prediction Performance of Objectively-Measured Physical Activity for Incident Cardiovascular Mortality in the UK Biobank	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
2022-23	Ziqi Fu	Differential Roles of Positive and Negative Supercoiling in Compacting the E. coli Genome	Weiqiang Zhou	Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2022-23	Jingce (Jimmy) Lei	Analysis of Noninferiority Margins and Comparison of Treatment Effects in Cancer Noninferiority Trials	Chen Hu	Boehringer Ingelheim
2022-23	Mingyuan Li	Bayesian Shape-Constrained Regression for Quantifying Alzheimer Disease Progression with Biomarkers	Akihiko Nishimura; Zheyu Wang	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2022-23	Xinwen (Mavis) Liang	Analyzing Whole-Genome Differential Expression Patterns in the EMT Process and Detecting Differential Methylation Regions in a Kmt2a Knockout Experiment	Kasper Hansen	Department of Biostatistics, Brown University School of Public Health
2022-23	Yi-Ting Lin	Non-Transportable Statistical Calibration of a Network of Low-Cost NO2 Sensors	Abhirup Datta	Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2022-23	Chunnan Liu	The Association between Binary Surrogate Endpoints and Time-to-Event Outcomes in Two-Arm Clinical Trials	Chen Hu	Department of Biostatistics, Brown University School of Public Health
2022-23	Christopher Lo	Genotyping Calling from Expression Data in Recount3	Jeffrey Leek	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2022-23	Ziling Shen	An Application of Emulated Trial Design to Estimate Causal Effect of Cancer on Dementia Among Medicaid Beneficiaries with HIV	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2022-23	Richard Xu	Contrasting Association of Maternal Plasma Biomarkers of Smoking and One-Carbon Micronutrients with Offspring DNA Methylation: Evidence of AHRR Gene-Smoking-Folate Interaction	Hongkai Ji	Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
2022-23	Jennie Yao	Monitoring Cancer Using Genome-Wide Cell-Free DNA Fragmentomes	Robert Scharpf	Division of Molecular Genetics & Genomics, Washington University in St. Louis
2022-23	Jianing Yao	Proust: A Graph-Based Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Spatial Domain Detection Using Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics	Stephanie Hicks	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2022-23	Shengjun You	The Impact of Firth's Bias Correction for Testing Low-Frequency Genetic Variant Association in a Family-Based Study	Debashree Ray	Eli Lilly
2021-22	Chang Chen	Supervised Methylation Signatures for Tissue-Specific Cancer Etiological Factors	Cristian Tomasetti	Westlake University School of Life Sciences
2021-22	Jinyu (Jennifer) Chen	Evaluating Bias in Long-Term Risk Estimates Using Short-Term Follow-Up	Josef Coresh	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2021-22	Xinyu (Sindy) Du	Machine Learning Approaches to Predict PM2.5 Using Satellite Images	Roger Peng	Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2021-22	Nathan Dyjack	Systematic Benchmark Evaluation of Distance Metrics for scRNA-seq Data	Stephanie Hicks
2021-22	Xinyu (Brian) Guo	Subset-Based Cross-Tissue Transcriptome-Wide Association Study	Nilanjan Chatterjee; Hongkai Ji	Department of Computational Biology, University of Southern California
2021-22	Qier Meng	Quantifying the Association between Objectively-Measured Physical Activity and Current or Future Multiple Sclerosis Status in the UK Biobank	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Eli Lilly
2021-22	Tingchang Wang	CUT-AND-RUN Data Analysis: Gene Expression Discovery in Ciliopathy Mice	Hongkai Ji	Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
2021-22	Yimin Zhao	A Statistical Framework for Analyzing Single Cell Multi-Modal Omics Data: Imputation and Prediction	Hongkai Ji; Kasper Hansen	Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health
2021-22	Xiaobin Zhou	Hospital-Free Days as an Outcome for Trials among Critically and Seriously Ill Patients: Defining and Estimating Treatment Effects	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin
2020-21	Ting-Hsuan Chang	Flexible Propensity Score Estimation Strategies for Clustered Data in Non-Experimental Studies	Elizabeth Stuart	Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2020-21	Xiang Chen	Evaluating Machine Learning Methods for Calibrating Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor Data	Abhirup Datta	Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
2020-21	Melody Dehghan	Identification of Prognostic Baseline Variables to Be Used in the Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Clinical Trials	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Eli Lilly
2020-21	Mengyu He	A Mixed Effect Similarity Matrix Regression Model (SMRmix) for Integrating Multiple Microbiome Datasets at Community Level and Its Application in HIV	Ni Zhao	Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
2020-21	Xiaoxi Hu	Examining the Association between Location-Specific Chronic Pain and Objectively Measured Physical Activity	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Fudan University School of Life Science
2020-21	Yuying Yan	Power Estimates in Randomized Trials for MISTIE II/III Based on Simulations Assuming a Dichotomous/Ordinal Outcome	Richard Thompson	Eli Lilly
2020-21	Jingran Zhu	Resolution and Reliability in Functional Connectivity Analysis	Martin Lindquist	CEC Capital
2019-20	Joseph Catallini	Developing and Assessing Methods for Calcium Imaging Data	John Muschelli	Delfi Diagnostics
2019-20	Yueyi (Kate) Li	scBIRD: A Graphical Pipeline for Single-Cell Regulome Prediction	Hongkai Ji	Foundation Medicine, Inc.
2019-20	Adam Pittman	Differential Measurement Error Across Time and Treatment Groups in Self-Reported Nutrition Data	Elizabeth Stuart	Folia Health
2019-20	Zebin Wang	Global Sensitivity Analysis for Randomized Trials with Informative Assessment Times: A Fully Parametric Approach	Daniel Scharfstein	Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2019-20	Shiyao (Jennifer) Xu	Predictive Performance of Physical Activity on Mortality Using UK Biobank and NHANES Datasets	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2019-20	Yifan Zhang	A Possible Explanation for the Association between Obesity and Cancer Risk	Cristian Tomasetti	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2019-20	Linda Zhou	Methodological Considerations for Clustering omics Data: A Case Study Using Metabolite Data in the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK)	Josef Coresh	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý

2010-2019 ScM Alumni

Year	Name	Thesis Title	Adviser(s)	Position
2018-19	Linda Gai	Rare Variant Association Testing in Case-Parent Trio Data	Margaret Taub	Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2018-19	Luqin Gan	Integrated DNase I Hypersensitivity Prediction Using RNA-seq and Unmatched Public DNase-seq	Hongkai Ji	Department of Statistics, Rice University
2018-19	Ruthe Huang	ADHD Risk Prediction in the Boston Birth Cohort: an Application of the Proportional Odds Model and ROC Curve Analysis	Mei-Cheng Wang	C2G Partners
2018-19	Xinye Li	Causal Inference with an Interval Censored Exposure	Daniel Scharfstein	Flatiron Health
2018-19	Andrew Pita	Bayesian Estimation of Key Population Sizes Using Multiple Data Sources	Abhirup Datta	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2018-19	Sarah Salter	Post-Stroke Adverse Event Scoring Systems: An Exploratory Analysis on Predicting Risk of Events by Score	Richard Thompson	Booz Allen Hamilton
2018-19	Emily Scott	Prediction of Intervention Effects in Health Systems: Johns Hopkins HealthCare Diabetes Case Study	Scott Zeger	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2017-18	Yue Cao	Study of Cryptosporidium Infection and Gut Microbiome in Bangladeshi Infants	Ni Zhao	Encore Capital Group
2017-18	Chih-Kai Chang	Quantifying the Difference in Activity between Diabetics and Healthy Controls Using Activity Data Measured by Accelerometers	Ciprian Crainiceanu	GfK
2017-18	Matthew Cole	Exploratory Factor Analysis: Model Selection and Identifying Underlying Symptoms	Karen Bandeen-Roche	Freddie Mac
2017-18	Noam Finkelstein	The Wavelet RNN: Timeseries Forecasting Using Multiresolution Structure	Suchi Saria	Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
2017-18	Gege Gui	High-Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patient	Hongkai Ji	NHLBI
2017-18	Jing Li	Comparative Analysis for Oral Cleft Trio Data	Margaret Taub	Illumina, Inc.
2017-18	Su Jin Lim	Evaluating the Finite Sample Properties of Baseline Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Trials: Application to Time to Event Outcomes	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2017-18	Shulin Qing	Statistical Methods for Estimating Treatment Effects Based on Boundary Inflated Data	Daniel Scharfstein	Medpace, Inc.
2017-18	Feiyang Zheng	Analysis of Short-Term and Long-Term Variability in Measures of Physical Function	Ravi Varadhan	Kimberly-Clark
2017-18	Yeya Zheng	Investigating the Relationship between Physical Activity Measured by Hip-Worn Accelerometers and Mortality	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Analysis Group, Inc.
2016-17	Yibing (Oliver) Chen	High-Dimensional Multivariate Mediation with Application to Neuroimaging Data	Martin Lindquist	Department of Psychology, Yale University
2016-17	Ding Ding	Spanning Tree Representation of High Dimensional Data	Hongkai Ji	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2016-17	Wenyi Lin	Nepal Respiratory Infection Analysis with Latent Variable Models	Scott Zeger	Department of Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego
2016-17	Yifan Zhou	Statistical Methods to Detect Hierarchical Topological Domains in Chromatin	Hongkai Ji	Department of Statistics, George Washington University
2015-16	So Yung Choi	Statistical Considerations for the Analysis of Ordinal Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials	Elizabeth Colantuoni	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2015-16	Hanying Li	Multi-Feature Function-on-Scalar Regression for Modelling Stepwatch Activity Data	Vadim Zipunnikov	Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine
2015-16	Gina Norato	Modeling the Association between Smoking and Sleep Fragmentation Using Log-Linear Models	Ciprian Crainiceanu	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
2014-15	Yang Bai	The Association Between Female Hormonal Contraceptive Use and HPV Prevalence in Female Participants, Rakai, Uganda	Xiangrong Kong; Gayane Yenokyan	BD
2014-15	Nicholas Carchedi	Statistics with Interactive R Learning (swirl)	Jeffrey Leek	DataCamp
2014-15	Katherine Freeland	Predicting Principal Stratum Membership in Randomized Environmental Interventions	Roger Peng	Sandia National Laboratories
2014-15	Andrew Leroux	Activity Patterns in a Parkinson's Monkey Model	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health
2014-15	James Pringle	Statistical Methods for Automatic Brain Segmentation	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2014-15	Lu Shen	Practice of Disclosure Limitation Techniques	Thomas Louis
2013-14	Caroline Epstein	Correcting for the Dependence Structure in Social Networks	Elizabeth Ogburn	Tempus, Inc.
2013-14	Hali Hambridge	Methods for Handling the Complexities of Missing Data in the Context of a Propensity Score Analysis	Elizabeth Stuart	Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2013-14	Ximin Li	Prediction of Heart Failure Hospitalizations with Wearable Activity Monitors	Vadim Zipunnikov	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2013-14	Yao Lu	Statistical Methods for Competing Risks Model	Mei-Cheng Wang	Weill Cornell Medicine
2013-14	Lisa Rein	Assessing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in the Citalopram for Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trial: A Subgroup Analysis to Guide Personalized Treatment Selections	Constantine Frangakis	Biostatistics Consulting Service, Medical College of Wisconsin
2013-14	Shuo Xu	Treatment Comparison with Survival and Non-Survival Primary Endpoints	Mei-Cheng Wang	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2013-14	Shilu Zhang	Transcription Factor Binding Motif Analyses in Two Biological Systems	Hongkai Ji	Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
2012-13	Detian Deng	Studying the Association between High-Resolution Air Pollution Time Series and Respiratory Health Outcomes	Roger Peng	ByteDance
2012-13	Bing He	Predicting Human Movement Type Based on Multiple Accelerometers Using Movelets	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Vatic Labs
2012-13	Rawan Rupnow (Al-Lozi)	A Comparison of Statistical Models for Predicting Recovery Time From Post-Traumatic Amnesia Following a Traumatic Brain Injury	Brian Caffo	Department of Biostatistics, University of Illinois-Chicago
2012-13	Li (Sherlly) Xie	Shadows in the Cave - Lessons from Characterizing Prostate-Specific Antigen and Its Doubling Time Using Longitudinal Observational Data	Gary Rosner	Medtronic
2011-12	John Gallis	Characterizing the Spatial Distribution of Neighborhood Social and Physical Disorder for Baltimore, Maryland	Frank Curriero	Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
2011-12	Shelley Herbrich	Estimation of Relative Protein Abundence from Multiple iTraq Experiments	Ingo Ruczinski	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2011-12	Finbarr Leacy	On the Joint Use of Propensity and Prognosis Scores in Causal Treatment Effect Estimation	Elizabeth Stuart; Charles Rohde	Health Products Regulatory Authority
2011-12	Brandon Luber	Response-Adaptive Two-Stage Enrichment Design: A Simulation Study	Michael Rosenblum	PRA Health Sciences
2011-12	Jiehuan Sun	Systematic Annotation and Exploration of Gene Expression Omnibus Using Text Mining Techniques	Hongkai Ji	Division of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health
2011-12	Elizabeth Sweeney	Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Magnetic Resonance Images	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Corteva Agriscience
2011-12	Xian Chong Zhou	Linear Mixed Effect Model Controlling for Missingness Due to Death: An Application to Longitudinal Data on Cognitive Scores	Scott Zeger	PRA Health Sciences
2011-12	Xiaowei Zhou	Patient and Organizational Factors Associated with Physical Therapy in the Intensive Care Unity for Acute Lung Injury	Charles Rohde	Laidlaw & Co.
2010-11	Maria Abraham	Sensitivity Analysis for Non-Monotone Missing Data with Application to Tuberculosis Studies	Daniel Scharfstein	EMMES Corporation
2010-11	Benjamin Althouse	An SIR Model of Cycles of Dengue Incidence in Senegal	Thomas Louis	Institute for Disease Modeling
2010-11	Jiawei Bai	Accelerometer-Based Prediction of Activity for Epidemiological Research	Ciprian Crainiceanu	Pfizer
2010-11	Po-Han Chen	Leveraging Baseline Information to Improve Inference in Adaptive Randomized Experiments with Small Sample Size	Michael Rosenblum	Ethicon, Inc.
2010-11	Nathan James	Quantifying Walking Path Quality Using an Objective Measure of Physical and Social Disorder	Frank Curriero	Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
2010-11	Daniel Obeng	Extension of Bayesian Process Optimization to Bounded Continuous Outcomes Using Coordinate-Specific Monotonic Transformations	Thomas Louis	Flatiron Health
2009-10	Jonathan Benenson	Susceptible Reconstruction and Serotype Specific Estimates of Seasonality of Transmission of Dengue Viruses in Thailand	Thomas Louis	SEGAL
2009-10	Nadia (Husain) Bilal	Looking at the Predictors of Depressive Symptoms Twelve Months Post-ICU Discharge in Survivors of Acute Lung Injury	James Tonascia	Booz Allen Hamilton
2009-10	Rachel Whitaker Elam	Sensitivity Analysis for Missing Outcome Data	Daniel Scharfstein	Medical College of Georgia
2009-10	Deborah Kuk	Model Selection for Cumulative Incidence Regression Modeling in Competing Risk Problems	Thomas Louis	Flatiron Health
2009-10	John Muschelli	A Critical Review of HRF Derivatives in SPM for Functional Neuroimaging	Brian Caffo	Department of Biostatistics, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2009-10	Vidya Venugopal	Approvals of Antimicrobial Requests in a Web Based Hospital System: Patterns over Time and Inter-User Variability	Marie Diener-West	Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
2009-10	Yaping Wang	Statistical Methods for Characterizing the Power Spectrum of the Sleep Electroencephalogram in Cigarette Smokers and Nonsmokers	Ciprian Crainiceanu

1990-2009 ScM Alumni

Year	Name	Thesis Title	Adviser(s)	Position
2008-2009	Yi-Ting Chang	Performance of Bayesian Ranking Methods in Identifying the Extreme Parameter	Thomas Louis	AstraZeneca
2008-2009	Victor Ssempijja	Bayesian Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Application to the "Male Circumcision HIV Prevention in Men in Rakai, Uganda: A Randomised Trial"	Thomas Louis	Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
2008-2009	Sonja Swanson	Modeling Latent Variables: An Application to Empirically Defined Eating Disorder Subtypes	Kung-Yee Liang	Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC
2008-2009	Catherine Thomas	Predictors of Change in RDI	Marie Diener-West	Beer Durham
2007-2008	Blake Charvat	Epidemic Models and Herd Immunity	Ron Brookmeyer
2007-2008	Sheng-Chih (Peter) Jin	Genome-Wide Association Study of Smoking Behavior: Combining Information from Multiple Phenotypes	Giovanni Parmigiani	Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
2007-2008	Peter Murakami	Evaluation of Microarray Quality Assessment Methods	Rafael Irizarry	US Department of Homeland Security
2007-2008	Suyan Tian	Time as an Instrumental Variable in the WIHS Study	Constantine Frangakis	Rockefeller University
2006-2007	Lijuan Deng	Spline Based Curve Fitting with Application to Kinetic Imaging	Brian Caffo	Merck, Inc.
2006-2007	Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson	Measuring Children's School Performance: Assessment of Computational Approaches to Evaluate Psychosocial Measurements	Thomas Louis	Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
2006-2007	Hui-Chun (Tammy) Hsu	The Use of Randomized Incentives in Studies with Missing Outcome Data: Application to the Three-City Study	Daniel Scharfstein	Cytel
2006-2007	Georgiana Onicescu	On Estimation of Subgroup Effects in Randomized Clinical Trials with Missing Covariates: Application to the MADIT II Study	Daniel Scharfstein	Department of Statistics, Western Michigan University
2006-2007	Yi-Chun (Stacey) Ou Yang	PSA Kinetics and Clinical Progression Markers in HRPC: Associations with and Prediction Models for Survival Based on Data from a Randomized Clinical Trial	Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer	INC Research
2005-2006	Brendan Klick	Simulation Based Design for Hierarchical Models	Thomas Louis	PSI
2005-2006	Hua-Ling Tsai	Evidence for Efficacy Using Profile Likelihood Methods	Charles Rohde	Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2005-2006	Daniel Yuan	High-Resolution Spatial Normalization for Microarrays Containing Embedded Technical Replicates	Rafael Irizarry
2005-2006	Lei Zhang	Assessing Reliability and Modeling Efficacy for Repeated Dietary Recall Data	Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer	Medtronic
2004-2005	Jennifer Ferreira (Ryea)	Accounting for Within Patient Correlation in Assessing Relative Sensitivity of an Adjunctive Diagnostic Test	Daniel Scharfstein	Emmes Corporation
2003-2004	Amanda Blackford	Likelihood Models for Smoking Rates in Different National Groups	Charles Rohde	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Oncology
2003-2004	Jian Wang	Comparison of Alternative Approaches in Classification Analysis Using Microarray Data	Giovanni Parmigiani	Caladrius Biosciences
2003-2004	Mei-Fen Yeh	Non-Parametric Analysis of Sequence Heterogeneity Associated with Injection Drug Usage	Jeanne Kowalski	Lockheed Martin
2002-2003	Laura Wilson	The Statistical Assessment of Bronchial Reactivity in Children with Asthma	James Tonascia	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý
2001-2002	Elizabeth Ebersole	Land Use Changes and Water Quality Parameters in the Choptank River and Chesapeake Bay	Charles Rohde	SAS
2001-2002	Laura Plantinga	Inference of Clusters of Related Individuals with Dominant Genetic Marker Data	Karl Broman	Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
2000-2001	Sora Kim	The Relationship between Aging and the Risk of Pilot Involvement in Aviation Crashes: Survival Analysis	Kung-Yee Liang	Apex International
2000-2001	Lisa Strug	A 4-Plot Method for Determining Sample Size	Charles Rohde	SickKids Research Institute
1999-2000	Marc Bacsafra	Internet-Based Software for Sample Size and Power Determination	James Tonascia	Fountainhead Wealth
1999-2000	Anita Chen	Statistical Methods That Summarize and Explore the Relationship between Executive Function and Brain Injury in Children with Closed Head Injury	Karen Bandeen-Roche
1998-1999	Ting-Li Su	Adjusting for Drop-Out and Non-Compliance in Randomized Trials: Application to ACTG 002	Daniel Scharfstein	Lancaster University
1998-1999	Hsiao-Ching Wang	Marginal Regression Modeling of the Association between Two Trait Loci on the Susceptibility to Complex Diseases	Kung-Yee Liang
1998-1999	Sveta Weiner	Latent Class Analysis for Incomplete Data Sets	Karen Bandeen-Roche	Sun Pharma Advanced Research
1997-1998	Karlyn Heiner Crotty	The Effects of Short-Term Weather Variations on US Mortality	Scott Zeger	Eventus Analytics
1997-1998	Gina D'Angelo	Use of Measurement Error Correction to Assess Neuropsychological Damage in Amateur Boxers	Karen Bandeen-Roche	AstraZeneca
1997-1998	Shing Mirn Lee	A Quantitative Study of the Continual Reassessment Method in the Presence of Heterogeneity	Steven Piantadosi	Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
1997-1998	Liping Li	Multiple Ascertainment in Family Studies: A Pseudolikelihood Ratio Procedure	Kung-Yee Liang
1995-1996	Kathryn Carson	Comparison of the Proportional Hazards Model and a Repeated Observation Logistic Regression for Time-Dependent Covariate Analysis	Steven Piantadosi	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý
1995-1996	William Checkley	Longitudinal Analysis of Growth: On Estimating the Acute and Long-Term Effects of Infectious Agents on the Growth of Young Children	Scott Zeger	Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1995-1996	Laura Cramer	A Comparison of Longitudinal Models in Assessing the Relationship of Sports and Injuries in School-Aged Children	Marie Diener-West	Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
1995-1996	Juan Hernandez-Avila	Use of Generalized Regression Tree Models to Characterize Vegetation Favoring Anopheles albimanus Mosquito Breeding	Leonardo Epstein	National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
1995-1996	Kai-Lin Hwang	Estimation of Prevalence Means and Standard Errors from Cohort Study Data	Karen Bandeen-Roche	Chung Shan Medical University
1995-1996	Yen-Hong Kuo	Duration Estimation from Censored Data: Application to the Preantibody Period of HIV Infection	Ron Brookmeyer	Jersey Shore Medical Center
1995-1996	Diana Miglioretti	Latent Class Regression for Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Multivariate Categorical Outcomes	Karen Bandeen-Roche	Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis
1994-1995	Shang-En Chung	The Effect of Negatively Correlated Measurement Error on an Observed Covariate and Outcome	Don Hoover	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1994-1995	Cristofer Price	Analysis of Longitudinal Behavior Data: Use of Random Effects in Generalized Linear Mixed Models	Scott Zeger	Abt Associates
1994-1995	Jennifer Schroeder	Use of Multiple Imputation and Linear Regression Techniques for Parameter Estimation of Left-Censored Analytical Chemistry Data	Karen Bandeen-Roche	BioStat Solutions, Inc.
1993-1994	Cynthia Saiontz-Martinez	Intention-to-Treat versus Treatment Received Analyses in Randomized Clinical Trials: A Simulation Study	Steven Piantadosi	Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.
1992-1993	Warren Strauss	Marginal Methods for Longitudinal Data: An Application to Soil Lead Abatement	Charles Rohde	Root Insurance Company
1991-1992	Maria Corrada-Bravo	A Generalized Estimating Equations Approach to Binary Data with an Application on the Impact of the Good Behavior Game on Off-Task Behavior	C. Hendricks Brown	University of California-Irvine, Department of Neurology
1991-1992	Beth Reboussin (Melton)	The Inclusion of Logistic Regression in the Latent Class Analytic Approach to Misclassified Binary Covariates	Kung-Yee Liang	Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine
1991-1992	David Simon	Bootstrap Prediction Intervals	Subhash Lele
1990-1991	Doreen Tam	Identifying Subtypes of Schizophrenia by Assessing the Risk for Psychopathology in the Relatives: An Application of the Cox Regression Model on Dependent Data	C. Hendricks Brown
1990-1991	Z. Nora Tu	A Logistic Discriminant Test as Applied to Censored Data	Steven Piantadosi	Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development
1989-1990	Jolene Laudolff	A Family of Parametric Survival Models Based on Parameter Heterogeneity	Steven Piantadosi
1989-1990	Joumana Yeretzian (Stephan)	PC CARP from the Prediction Perspective: An Analysis of Childhood Injury Data	Richard Royall

1980-1989 ScM Alumni

Year	Name	Thesis Title	Adviser(s)	Position
1988-1989	Susan Bass	Nonparametric Estimation for Prevalent Cohort Data	Mei-Cheng Wang
1988-1989	Anne Damiano	Short Term Projections of Cumulative AIDS Incidence for the United States	Ron Brookmeyer
1988-1989	Lynn Onstad	A Consultation System for Regression Enhancement	C. Hendricks Brown	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1988-1989	Lai-Chu (Pearl) See	Statistical Methods for Monitoring the AIDS Epidemic	Scott Zeger	Division of Microbiology, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University
1987-1988	Sharon Edelstein	Poisson Regression with a Surrogate X -- An Analysis of the Effect of Vitamin A Supplementation on Children's Mortality	Scott Zeger	George Washington University Biostatistics Center
1987-1988	Constance Moorman	The Statistical Analysis of Matched Case-Control Studies	Ron Brookmeyer
1985-1986	Hubert Allen	Methods of Band Survival Analysis: Applied to Studies of the Tundra Swan (Cygnus Columbianus Columbianus)	Charles Rohde	Hubert Allen & Associates
1985-1986	Elizabeth Grossman	Methods for the Analysis of Interval Censored Data with an Application to PCB Levels in Adipose Tissue of Transformer Repair Workers	Steven Self	Office of Evaluation & Audit Analysis, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), US Department of Labor
1985-1986	Deanna Kruszon-Moran	Oral Contraceptive Use, Alcohol Consumption and Plasma Lipid and Lipoprotein Levels	Allyn Kimball	National Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health Examination Statistics
1985-1986	Sarah Lipsius (Lowell)	Odds Ratio Regression for Serial Data	Scott Zeger	Inventiv Health Clinical
1985-1986	B. Michele Melia	A Comparison of Four Models for Change in Visual Acuity over Time	Charles Rohde	Jaeb Center for Health Research
1984-1985	Elizabeth (Lianne) Sheppard	Analysis of Auditory Startle Response Data	Scott Zeger	Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health
1983-1984	Vicki Burt	Variance Estimation for a Stratified Multistage Sample in the Analysis of Health Care Experience of Primary Individuals	Alan Gittelsohn	National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health & Nutrition Examination Surveys, CDC
1983-1984	Lisa Friedman	Alcohol Consumption and CHD Mortality in the Framingham Study	Allyn Kimball	Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1983-1984	Elizabeth Moyer (Cox)	The Bilateral Poisson Distribution with an Application to Visual Acuity	Allyn Kimball
1983-1984	Eric Ross	Changes in Obstetrical Practices and Infant Mortality, New York State	Alan Gittelsohn	Fox Chase Cancer Center
1983-1984	Edward Salvo	A Statistical Description of Nutrient Flux Rates of the Patuxent River in Maryland	Scott Zeger
1983-1984	Katherine Yates	Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: Can Health Effects Be Assessed Directly?	James Tonascia	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý
1982-1983	Peter Gilbert	Graphical Techniques for the Proportional Hazards Model	Ron Brookmeyer	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Washington, DC
1982-1983	Alice Sternberg	The Mortality Experience of American Radiologists	James Tonascia	Department of Epidemiology, Johns ��ѻ��ý
1981-1982	Bertram Kestenbaum	The Measurement of Early Retirement		United States Social Security Administration
1981-1982	Lucy Meoni (Mead)	The Inter-Relationship of Maternal Risk Factors and Adverse Outcomes of Pregnancy: A Reexamination of the Jerusalem Perinatal Study	James Tonascia
1981-1982	Pamela Spencer	Risk Factors and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
1980-1981	Richard Ross	Application of a Superpopulation Model in Two-Stage Cluster Sampling	Alan Ross	Center for Outcomes Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
1980-1981	Howard Shapiro	The Relationship between Hematocrit and Alphafetoprotein in Maternal Serum during Pregnancy	Allyn Kimball
1979-1980	Mary Yurachek	Estimates of "Safe" Dose: Small Sample Comparisons	Charles Rohde	Veterans Administration Medical Center

1930-1979 ScM Alumni

Year	Name	Thesis Title	Adviser(s)	Position
1978-1979	Roger Aitchison	Adaptive k-Ratio x2 Tests for Multiple x2 Testing	David Duncan	North Rim Consulting
1978-1979	Fredrik Deck	Comparative Study of Mortality-Age Patterns in Canada and Sweden, 1930-1970, with Special Reference to Ages 60 and Over	Helen Abbey
1978-1979	James Gardner	Estimating the Mean Utilizing Auxiliary Information	Allyn Kimball
1978-1979	Joan Jefferys (Davies)	The Interaction of Risk Factors for Endometrial Carcinoma	James Tonascia	Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1977-1978	Clayton Kallman	New Procedure for Stepwise Multiple Logit Regression	David Duncan	Kallman Enterprises, Inc.
1977-1978	Frank Rockhold	Acute Myocardial Infarction and the Evaluation of Anticoagulant Therapy in Vermont 1969-1973	Alan Gittelsohn	Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center
1976-1977	Mary Barrick	Illegitimacy and Birth Characteristics in Two Generations of Baltimore Negro Women	James Tonascia
1976-1977	Linda Chew (Chang)	The Relationship between Breast Cancer and Rauwolfia Derivatives	Alan Ross
1976-1977	Deborah Dawson (Valulick)	Body Weight in a Cohort of Medical Students: Consideration of Indices, Familial Aggregation, and Time Trends	Helen Abbey	University of Iowa College of Dentistry
1976-1977	Maureen Maguire	A Reexamination of the Relationship between Oral Contraceptives and Thrombosis	James Tonascia	Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
1976-1977	Linda Pilloff (Kahn)	Observations on the Practice of Obstetrics in Vermont 1969-1973	Alan Gittelsohn
1975-1976	Kwasi Poku	Risk of Streptococcal Infection in Rheumatic and Non-Rheumatic Families: An Application of the Greenwood Chain Binomial Model	Alan Ross	Physician
1975-1976	Susan Tonascia	An Evaluation of Automatic Record Linkage in Follow-Up Studies	Alan Ross
1974-1975	Bruce Jonas	Maternal Smoking and Prenatal Mortality	James Tonascia	National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
1974-1975	Ellen MacKenzie	A Method for Comparing Surgical Rates among Hospital Service Areas as Applied to Hysterectomies Performed in Vermont	Alan Gittelsohn	Dean, Johns ��ѻ��ý
1974-1975	Lenita Thibault	A Comparison of Three Techniques for Estimating Probability Densities	Charles Rohde	Wellmont Health System
1974-1975	Richard (Rocket) Wong	Relationships of Alcoholism and Mental Health in Two Populations: Washington County, Maryland and Kansas City, Missouri	James Tonascia	Maine Medical Center
1973-1974	Mary Paxton	A Method of Linkage Analysis for Traits with Incomplete Separation of the Phenotypes	Charles Rohde	Population Health & Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
1972-1973	Doris Cheng (Lee)	Estimation of Mutation Rate on an X Linked Lethal Recessive Trait	Gary Chase
1972-1973	Gracia Goade	Adjustments in Calculating Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Rates	James Tonascia	GSG Medical Management
1972-1973	Debra Silverman	Maternal Smoking and Birthweight	James Tonascia	Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer & Genetics, NCI
1972-1973	Zacharia Verghese	Evaluation in Applied Nutrition Program	James Tonascia
1970-1971	Nancy Reale (Fischer)	Some Probabilistic Aspects of Changes in Protein Sequences Illustrated by Cytochrome a	Edmund A. Murphy
1970-1971	Nigel Woolf	Estimation of Growth Patterns of Protozoa in Radiation Experiments	Alan Ross	Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego
1969-1970	David Bolling	Multi-Point Mapping of Gene Loci	Helen Abbey
1969-1970	Joyce Schiffman	Comparison of Nonparametric Regression Estimates	Richard Royall	Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Health System
1968-1969	Mary Terence Dowling (Gomes)	Methods for Analysis of Follow-Up Studies	Earl Diamond
1968-1969	Alan Talbert	Recursive Multiple Regression with a Polychotomous Response Variable	David Duncan
1964-1965	Norman Hiller	On Choosing the Optimum k for a 2 x k Contingency Table	Allyn Kimball	Department of Veterans Affairs
1962-1963	Kathleen Kocherlakota	An Analysis of the Age Distribution at Death of Mice Exposed to Gamma Radiation	Margaret Martin
1961-1962	Charles Anello	The Competing Risk Model when the Mortality Intensities Are Assumed to Be a Linear Function of Time	Allyn Kimball	Applied Statistical Concepts, LLC
1961-1962	Judith Conant	Two Nomograms for Determining Sample Size	Allyn Kimball	Rye Country Day School
1960-1961	James Mosimann	On the Compound Multinomial Distribution, the Multivariate Beta Distribution, and Correlations of Proportions	John Gart
1958-1959	Margaret Hoff	Race Differences in Mortality from Cerebrovascular Disease	Margaret Merrell
1958-1959	Frances Parsons (Wright)	The Waiting Problem in the Emergency Department (Johns Hopkins Hospital)	Margaret Merrell
1956-1957	Todd Frazier	Estimation of Need for Chronic Disease Services: An Evaluation of the Capabilities of Morbidity Surveys	William Cochran
1956-1957	Roberta Wilcox	A Statistical Approach to the Control of Risk in the Use of Vaccines and Drugs	Paul Meier
1953-1954	Leonard Cook	Home Accidents	William Cochran
1952-1953	Marie Eldridge (Delaney)	Certain Effects of Temporary Losses on Cumulative Failure Rates in Long-Term Follow-Up Studies	Margaret Merrell
1952-1953	Robert Keehn	A Study of the Effect of Immigration upon Mortality in a Geographically Defined Population	Margaret Merrell
1950-1951	Everett Williams	A Study of Illness among Families Residing in Public Housing and Applicants for Public Housing in Baltimore	William Cochran
1949-1950	Lillian Guralnick	Job Stability in the Eastern Health District, 1939 to 1947	W. Thurber Fales
1949-1950	Mary Patno	The Utilization of a Mail Questionnaire in Obtaining Immunization Histories of First Grade Children	Margaret Merrell
1947-1948	Martha Simmons (Eaton)	Record Systems for Organized Medical Care Programs with a Presentation of the System for the Baltimore City Medical Care Program	W. Thurber Fales
1944-1945	Jose Janer	Population Growth in Puerto Rico and Its Relation to Time Changes in Vital Statistics	Lowell Reed
1942-1943	Chung-san Hsueh	Scale Transformation and Its Application to the Fitting of Skew Frequency Curves	Lowell Reed
1941-1942	Elwood Musselman	Measles Attack Rate among Preschool Children as Related to the Presence of School Children in the Family	Lowell Reed
1941-1942	Margaret Rice	Correlation of Reported Malaria Morbidity with Blood Film Survey Findings Based on Data Secured in 1940	Lowell Reed
1940-1941	Clara Councell	Past Hospital Experience of a Surviving Population: Eastern Health District, Baltimore, 1926-35	Lowell Reed
1937-1938	Elizabeth De Porte (Parkhurst)	The Allocation of Deaths in State Custodial Institutions to Place of Residence	Lowell Reed
1932-1933	Maryland Pennell (Young)	The Symptomatology of Successive Attacks of Acute Upper Respiratory Disease (Common Cold)	Lowell Reed
1930-1931	Catharine Van Volkenburgh	Immunity to Common Colds Produced by an Attack: A Study of the Family Group of the John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold	Lowell Reed

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