Featured Alumni
Zhi Yu, MHS, PhD ’20
Zhi Yu, MHS, PhD ’20, is an investigator and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an affiliate faculty member at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Where Are They Now?
Alumni Spotlight: Erjia Cui, PhD '23
Erjia Cui, PhD ’23, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the University of Minnesota.
Alumni Spotlight: Ruthe Huang, ScM '19
Ruthe Huang, ScM ’19, is a senior data scientist with Practical Intelligence, specializing in statistical modeling and data visualization.
Alumni Spotlight: Christopher Lo, ScM '23
Christopher Lo, ScM ’23, is a data science trainer in the Data Science Lab at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center where he teaches biomedical data science to the Fred Hutch Cancer Center community.
A dedicated biostatistics student, Huster also worked as a department teaching assistant, circa 1984.
Gertrude Huster, MHS ’84
Gertrude Huster, MHS ’84, a trailblazing woman in STEM, endowed a scholarship in the Department of Biostatistics shortly before her passing in 2023. This act of generosity reflects Huster's commitment to fostering opportunities for future generations.
Featured Alumni
Junrui Di, PhD ’19, is a Digital Medicine Statistician at Pfizer, where he is part of Pfizer Research & Development's AI/ML Quantitative and Digital Sciences group, specializing as a Digital Medicine.
Meet More Alumni
Jenna Krall, PhD '14, is an associate professor in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason University College of Public Health with research interests in air pollution and environmental epidemiology.
Russell (Taki) Shinohara, PhD ’12
Russell (Taki) Shinohara currently serves as principal investigator of three methodological research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Dorry Segev, MHS, ’09
Dorry Segev is currently the Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, and associate vice chair in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University.
Amanda Mejia, PhD ’16
Amanda Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and a member of the Program in Neuroscience at Indiana University.
Xianghua Luo, PhD ’06
Xianghua Luo works as a statistical consultant for cancer-related projects and collaborate with researchers at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center.
Alyssa Frazee, PhD ’15
Alyssa Frazee shares her experience as a PhD student and her career working as a machine learning engineer.
Simina Boca PhD ’11
Simina Boca is an assistant professor (Research Track) at Georgetown University Medical Center in the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) and Departments of Oncology and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics.
Brian Egleston, PhD ’06
Brian Egleston is an associate research professor at the Fox Chase Cancer Center with Temple University Health System.
Haley Hedlin, PhD ’11
Haley Hedlin is a senior biostatistician and associate director of Clinical Trials Program in the Quantitative Sciences Unit, in the Stanford Department of Medicine.
Matt McCall, PhD ’10
Matt McCall is an assistant professor in the Biostatistics department at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Bruce Swihart, PhD ’12
Bruce Swihart is a mathematical statistician at the National Institutes of Health.