PhD Student Profiles
ERIC BRIDGEFORD
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Biomedical Engineering/Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Office: E3032 BSPH
Email: ebridge2@jhu.edu
Advisor: Joshua Vogelstein
Co-Advisor: Brian Caffo
ATHENA CHEN
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BA: Biophysics/Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Office: E3035 BSPH
Email: achen70@jhu.edu
Advisor: Ingo Ruczinski
HUAN CHEN
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BS: Statistics, Zhejiang University, 2017
Office: E3032 BSPH
Email: hchen130@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Brian Caffo
wanlu CHEN
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BS: Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Renmin University, 2019
Office: E3030 BSPH
Email: wchen111@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang
andrew chin
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
MS: Statistics, UC Davis, 2018
BS: Statistics, UC Davis, 2017
Office: E3039 BSPH
Email: achin23@jhu.edu
Advisor: Akihiko Nishimura
Charlotte clapham
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BA: Mathematics, Carleton College, 2021
Office: E3031 BSPH
Email: cclapha1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Karen Bandeen-Roche
Simon couch
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BA: Mathematics, Reed College, 2021
Office: E3030 BSPH
Email: scouch2@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Roger Peng
ERJIA CUI
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BSc: Statistics, Zhejiang University, 2018
Office: E3031 BSPH
Email: ecui1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ciprian Crainiceanu
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/erjiacui
DEBANGAN DEY
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
MStat: Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2017
BStat: Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2015
Office: E3033 BSPH
Email: ddey1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Vadim Zipunnikov
Co-Advisor: Abhirup Datta
LEON DI STEFANO
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
MS: Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne, 2013
BA: Mathematics & Statistics/Linguistics, University of Melbourne, 2012
Office: E3037 BSPH
Email: lds@jhu.edu
Advisor: Kasper Hansen
Co-Advisor: Elizabeth Stuart
YUZHENG DUN
PhD Candidate
2020-2021
BS: Statistics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2020
Office: E3033 BSPH
Email: ydun2@jhu.edu
Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee
LACEY ETZKORN
PhD Candidate
2015-2016
BA: Mathematics, St. Olaf College, 2015
Office: E3037 BSPH
Email: letzkor1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ciprian Crainiceanu
WEIXIANG FANG
PhD Candidate
2016-2017
BS: Material Science & Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2014
Office: E3032 BSPH
Email: wfang9@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Hongkai Ji
MARTINA FU
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
BS: Mathematical & Computational Sci/Biology, Stanford University, 2017
Office: E3032 BSPH
Email: mfu15@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee
BRIAN GILBERT
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Statistics, Brown University, 2018
Office: E3030 BSPH
Email: bgilber9@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth Ogburn
Co-Advisor: Abhirup Datta
HALEY GRANT
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BA: Mathematics, Cornell University, 2018
Office: E3039 BSPH
Email: hgrant3@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Cristian Tomasetti
GEGE GUI
PhD Candidate
2020-2021
ScM: Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2018
BS: Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, 2016
Office: E3037 BSPH
Email: ggui1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Scott Zeger
CLAIRE HEFFERNAN
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
BS: Mathematics, McGill University, 2019
Office: E3038 BSPH
Email: cheffer2@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ahbirup Datta
Co-Advisor: Roger Peng
marina hernandez
PhD Candidate
2021-2021
BA: Statistics, Cornell University, 2020
Office: E3038 BSPH
Email: mherna55@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Michael Rosenblum
MARTA KARAS
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
MS: Mathematics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 2015
BS: Mathematics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 2013
Office: E3039 BSPH
Email: mkaras2@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ciprian Crainiceanu
Co-Advisor: Jacek Urbanek
lily koffman
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
MS: Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2021
BA: Statistics, Harvard University, 2019
Office: E3040 BSPH
Email: lkoffman2@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Vadim Zipunnikov
ALBERT KUO
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BS: Mathematics/Statistics, University of Chicago, 2016
Office: E3040 BSPH
Email: albertkuo@jhu.edu
Advisor: Cristian Tomasetti
RUNZHE LI
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Mathematical Science, Tsinghua University, 2018
Office: E3030 BSPH
Email:rli51@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Hongkai Ji
Co-Advisor: Ni Zhao
Personal Website: https://stephlee3.github.io/
jiuyao lu
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BS: Pure & Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2021
Office: E3034 BSPH
Email: jlu85@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ni Zhao
CARLY LUPTON-SMITH
PhD Candidate
2020-2021
MS: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
BS: Applied Mathematics & Statistics/Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
Office: E3035 BSPH
Email: clupton1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Michael Rosenblum
yi (claire) man
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BA: Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2021
Office: E3034 BSPH
Email: yman4@jhu.edu
Advisor: Kasper Hansen
TRANG NGUYEN
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
PhD: Health, Behavior and Society (Concurrent MHS in Biostatistics), Johns Hopkins University, 2014
MS: Population and International Health, Harvard University, 2001
BA: Economics, Hanoi Foreign Trade University, 1995
Email: trang.nguyen@jhu.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth Ogburn
Co-Advisor: Constantine Frangakis
ARKAJYOTI SAHA
PhD Candidate
2016-2017
MStat: Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2016
BStat: Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2014
Office: E3030 BSPH
Email: asaha8@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee
Co-Advisor: Abhirup Datta
ELIZABETH SARKER
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
MS: Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, 2016
BSc: Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka, 2015
Office: E3031 BSPH
Email: esarker1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth Stuart
joseph sartini
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BS: Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2021
Office: E3038 BSPH
Email: jsartin1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Martin Lindquist
GRANT SCHUMOCK
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 2018
Office: E3035 BSPH
Email: gschumo1@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Ravi Varadan
Co-Advisor: Karen Bandeen-Roche
EMILY SCOTT
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
ScM: Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins BSPH, 2019
BS: Biological Sci/Mathematical Biology, University of Pittsburg, 2016
Office: E3035 BSPH
Email: escott29@jhu.edu
Advisor: Scott Zeger
Co Advisor: Akihiko Nishimura
kinnary shah
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BS: Biomathematics, Rutgers University, 2021
Office: E3040 BSPH
Email: kshah37@jhmi.edukshah37@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Stephanie Hicks
BONNIE SMITH
PhD Candidate
2016-2017
PhD: Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, 2010
BA: Mathematics/French, Grinnell College, 2003
Office: E3035 BSPH
Email: bsmit179@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Dan Scharfstein
Jiafang song
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
MS: Biostatistics, Yale University, 2021
BS: Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University, 2018
Office: E3040 BSPH
Email: jsong100@jhu.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth Ogburn
BOHAO TANG
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BS: Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, 2017
Office: E3036 BSPH
Email: bhtang@jhu.edu
Advisor: Brian Caffo
GUOQING WANG
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BS: Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2015
Office: E3037 BSPH
Email: gwang37@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Martin Lindquist
SIRUO (SARA) WANG
PhD Candidate
2016-2017
BS: Mathematics/Computer Science, Centre College, 2016
Office: E3034 BSPH
Email: swang171@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Jeffrey Leek
YI WANG
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
MS: Statistics, George Washington University, 2019
BS: Biological Sci/Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2017
Office: E3031 BSPH
Email: mdabrow1@jhu.edu
Advisor: Kasper Hansen
Co Advisor: Hongkai Ji
zitong wang
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BA: Economics/Mathematics, Holyoke College, 2018
Office: E3034 BSPH
Email: zwang238@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Scott Zeger
Co Advisor: Akihiko Nishimura
yujie (phylllis) wei
PhD Candidate
2021-2022
BA: Mathematics, Wellesley College, 2021
Office: E3036 BSPH
Email: ywei43@jhu.edu
Advisor: Ingo Ruczinski
JIYANG WEN
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, University of Science & Technology of China, 2018
Office: E3033 BSPH
Email: jwen22@jhu.edu
Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang
Co Advisor: Chen Hu
SHIYAO (JENNIFER) XU
PhD Candidate
2020-2021
ScM: Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2020
BS: Biological Science, Tsinghua University, 2018
Office: E3032 BSPH
Email: sxu42@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth Ogburn
Co-Advisor: Akihiko Nishimura
WENTAO ZHAN
PhD Candidate
2020-2021
BS: Mathematics, Fudan University, 2020
Office: 3033 BSPH
Email: wzhan3@jhu.edu
Advisor: Hongkai Ji
Co-Advisor: Abhirup Datta
BOYANG ZHANG
PhD Candidate
2017-2018
BS: Statistics, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2015
Office: E3036 BSPH
Email: bzhang34@jhu.edu
Advisor: Hongkai Ji
DONGLIANG ZHANG
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
MS: Statistics, McGill University, 2016
BS: Probability & Statistics, McGill University, 2014
Office: E3030 BSPH
E-mail: dzhang69@jhmi.edu
Advisor: Martin Lindquist
Co Advisor: Mei-Cheng Wang
JINGNING ZHANG
PhD Candidate
2018-2019
BS: Pure & Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2018
Office: E3036 BSPH
E-mail: jzhan218@jhu.edu
Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee
RUZHANG ZHAO
PhD Candidate
2019-2020
BS: Mathematical Sci, Tsinghua University, 2019
Office: E3039 BSPH
E-mail: rzhao@jhu.edu
Advisor: Hongkai Ji
Co Advisor: Nilanjan Chatterjee