PhD Student Profiles

Amy Pitts

Education: B.S., Applied Mathematics & Data Science, Marist College

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2020

Email: ajp2257@cumc.columbia.edu 

Research Interests: Functional data analysis; Machine learning; Missing Data; Clinical Trials


Baoyi Shi

Education:
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Finance and Banking & Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2020

Email: bs3141@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Causal Inference; Functional Data Analysis; Machine Learning

 


Bin Yang

Education:
B.S., Applied Mathematics, College of William and Mary
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University 

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2022

Email: by2303@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Precision medicine, Neuropsychiatric disorder


Charlotte Fowler

Education: 
B.A., Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Macalaster College

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2019

Email: crf2147@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Causal Inference, Missing Data, Time Series Analysis, Latent Variables, Mental Health

    


Elly Kipkogei

Education: 
B.Sc., Biometry and Statistics, Cornell University  
MPS, Applied Statistics, Cornell University  

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2022 

Email: ek3235@cumc.columbia.edu 

Research Interests:
Machine Learning, Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis 


Fanyu Cui

Education: 
M.S., Statistics, University of Washington-Seattle
B.A., Economics & Mathematics, Georgetown University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2023

Email: fc2754@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Causal Inference, Causal Discovery, Statistical Genetics

Personal Website: https://fanyucui.github.io


Guadalupe Antonio Lopez

Education: 
B.A., Statistics & Psychology, Mount Holyoke College

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2023

Email: ga2612@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Undetermined

 

 


Gustavo Enrique Garcia-Franceschini

Education: 
B.S., Statistics and Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2023

Email: geg2145@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Causal Inference; Machine Learning; Survey Methods


Jungang Zou

Education: 
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.E., Software Engineering, Xiamen University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2022

Email: jz3183@cumc.columbia.edu

Advisor: Dr. Qixuan Chen

Research Interests:
Bayesian statistics, Missing data, Machine learning

Githubhttps://github.com/zjg540066169


Madison Stoms

Education: B.S., Statistics, University of Michigan

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2019

Email: ms5975@cmuc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Personalized Medicine, Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials, Missing Data


Margaret Gacheru

Education: 
B.A., Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2018

Email: mg3861@cumc.columbia.edu​

Research Interests:
Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Survey Methods; Missing Data; Clinical Trials


Melanie Mayer

Education: 
B.S., Statistics and BA in Economics, University of Florida

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2018

Email: mm4963@cumc.columbia.edu​

Research Interests:
Causal inference, high-dimensional data, health disparities

 


Renjie (Ryan) Wei

Education: 
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University 
B.S., Laboratory Science, Peking University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2023

Email: rw2844@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Clinical Trials, Causal Inference, Dynamic Treatment Regimes


Ruiyang Li

Education: 
M.S., Biostatistics, Columbia University
B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rochester
B.A., Financial Economics, University of Rochester 

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2020

Email: rl3034@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Undetermined


Safiya Sirota

Education: 
BA in Mathematics & Psychology, Wellesley College

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2021

Email: sns2189@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests: 
Causal inference, racial disparities in health, mental health

Website: https://safiyasirota.github.io/


Ting-Hsuan Chang

Education: 
M.S., Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Psychology, National Taiwan University 

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2022

Email: tc3255@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Causal Inference, Causal Discovery


Wenbo Fei

Education
M.S., Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Statistics, University of Science and Technology of China

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2020

Email: wf2270@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests: Undetermined

 


Yanran Li

Education: 
M.S., Biostatistics, Harvard University 
B.S., Physics, Sun Yat-sen University

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2023

Email: yl5465@cumc.columbia.edu 

Research Interests:
Probability Machine Learning, Bayesian, Uncertainty Analysis, Causal Inference 

Twitter: @Lyric97243419


Yijin (Serena) Wang

Education: 
B.A., Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College
B.A., Statistics, Mount Holyoke College

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2022

Email: yw4005@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests: Functional Data Analysis and Casual Inference

Website: https://serena-wang.github.io


 Yinjun Zhao

Education: 
M.P.H., Biostatistics, Yale University
M.S., Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Renmin University
B.S., Statistics, Wuhan University of Technology

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2018

Email: yz3503@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Undetermined


Yuqi Miao

Education:  
Graduate: Biostatistics, Columbia

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2021

Email: ym2771@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Data integration for clustering

  


Zexi Cai

Education: 
B.Sc., Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.Phil., Risk Management Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2021

Email: zc2626@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Semiparametric methods, Survival analysis, Machine learning, Statistical computing


Ziyi Wang

Education: 
M.S., in Biology, University of California, San Diego
B.S., in Mathematics-Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
B.S., in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego

Cohort Year: 
Fall 2020

Email: zw2716@cumc.columbia.edu

Research Interests:
Undetermined