Congratulations to the following doctoral students who have successfully defended their dissertations and will graduate from the Biostatistics PhD Program.
Michael Gao delivered his defense on From Bench to Bedside: Advancing the Evaluation and Alignment of Machine Learning and Large Language Models for Clinical Impact in Healthcare on June 26, 2025. Committee members: Michael Pencina, PhD (chair), Ben Goldstein, PhD, Ricardo Henao Giraldo, PhD,Chuan Hong, PhD, and Sreekanth Vemulapalli, PhD.
Quinn Lanners delivered his defense on Domain-Guided Machine Learning: Trustworthy Methods for Causal Inference and Rare Event Prediction on May 21, 2025. Committee members: Cynthia Rudin, PhD, (co-chair), David Page, PhD, (co-chair), Hwanhee Hong, PhD, Alexander Volfovsky, PhD, and Matthew Engelhard, PhD.
Weijia Mai delivered her defense on Analysis of Two-Stage Seamless Adaptive Design in Clinical Research and Its Applications on October 28, 2025. Committee members: Shein-Chung Chow, PhD. (Chair), Sarah Peskoe, PhD, Frank Rockhold, Ph, Ayako Suzuki, MD, PhD, and Yuan Wu, PhD.
Mengying Yan delivered her defense on Outcome Observability in Electronic Health Record-Based Clinical Prediction Models on March 18, 2025. Committee members: Ben Goldstein, PhD, (chair), Matt Engelhard, MD, PhD, Hwanhee Hong, PhD, Michael Pencina, PhD, and Michael Cary, PhD.
Jingxuan (Jay) Zhang delivered his defense on Statistical Analysis and Deep Learning Models for Immunoprofiling Based on Single-Cell Data in Clinical Trials on July 3, 2025. Committee members: Lynn (Lin) Lin, PhD, (chair) Cliburn Chan, MBBS, PhD, Ricardo Henao Giraldo, PhD, and Andrew Nixon, PhD.