students
Our new PhD students – Fall 2024
Sep. 18, 2024—We are delighted to welcome five new students to our doctoral program this fall. Kun Bai is a new student in our PhD program, but he is not new to our department, having worked as a staff biostatistician since 2022. Bai earned his MS in biostatistics at the University of Michigan with a health data...
Our new MS students – Fall 2024
Sep. 8, 2024—We are delighted to welcome seven new students to our master’s degree program this fall. Camila Carmona earned associate degrees in mathematics, economics, and philosophy at Santa Rosa Junior College, followed by bachelor’s degrees in statistics and philosophy at Sonoma State University. Carmona’s first biostatistics project was about the impact of remote instruction on...
Max Rohde is first author on new gene therapy research paper
Nov. 15, 2023—PhD candidate Max Rohde is first author on “Practical and Statistical Considerations for the Long Term Follow-Up of Gene Therapy Trial Participants” published recently in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The paper outlines “some of the key considerations for designing long term follow-up protocols in the gene therapy setting” and offers “guidance for innovative operational and statistical methods...
Welcome to our 2023 first-year cohort
Aug. 31, 2023—We are delighted to welcome seven new students to our program this fall. Kaixing “Charlie” Liu is a new student in our MS program. A native of China, he majored in biological science at Tsinghua University, minoring in economics and statistics. His studies there shaped his interest in the intersection of statistics, health, and programming, and...