MEET THE Team
Principal Investigators
Shuo Chen, Ph.D
Co-Director
Professor with tenure,
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics,
Director of Biostatistics and Data Science,
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center,
School of Medicine, U of Maryland
Charles T. Ma, Ph.D
Co-Director
Associate Professor,
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
School of Public Health, U of Maryland
Chixiang Chen, Ph.D
Co-Director
Assistant Professor,
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
School of Medicine, U of Maryland
Adjuncts
Song Liu, Ph.D.
Adjuncts
Qilu University of Technology
School of Computer Science and Technology
Email: liusong.umb@gmail.com
Research interests: Machine learning
Knowledge graph and Biostatistics
Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Staff
Visiting Scholars
Jingtao Wang, Ph.D
Visiting Scholar
Email: wangjingtao1990@163.com
Research interests: Machine learning
Radiomics
Hobbies: playing badminton, running and swimming
Graduate Students
Eshetu Tefera
5th year Ph.D. student
Program: Bioinformatics/Biostatistics (STAT-BB)
Email: etefera@umd.edu
Jianping Ye
3rd year Ph.D. student
Program: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation
Email: jpye00@umd.edu
Zhiwei Zhao
5th year Ph.D. student
​Program: Bioinformatics/Biostatistics (STAT-BB)
Email: zzhao94@umd.edu
Yifan Yang
5th year Ph.D. student
Program: Bioinformatics/Biostatistics (STAT-BB)
Email: yiorfun@umd.edu
Travis Canida
5th year Ph.D. student
Program: Bioinformatics/Biostatistics (STAT-BB)
Email: tacanida@umd.edu
List of Former Members
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Tong Lu, Ph.D. in Statistics, first job: Data Scientitst at Google
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Yunjiang Ge, Ph. D. in Statistics, first job: Mathematical Statistician FDA
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Chen Mo, DrPH in Biostatistics, current position: Principal Biostatistician, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Qiong Wu, Ph.D. in Statistics, first job: Postdoctoral fellow at Upenn.
Email: qwu1221@terpmail.umd.edu
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/terpmail.umd.edu/qwu/home
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Boao Zhao, MPH in Biostatistics, current position Ph.D. student in Stats George Mason University
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Chuan Bi, Ph.D. in Applied mathematics, current position: Mathematical Statistician FDA
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Li Feng (Cindy), Ph.D. in Nutrition Epidemiology, current position: postdoctoral fellow NIH
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​Yifan Yang, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/Biostatistics, current position: postdoctoral scholar, Case Western Reserve University
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