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Graduate Students and Postdocs |
Information for prospective students and postdocs - outside Duke. |
Advice
for Duke students interested in joining my group. |
Current:
Meng He (PhD student Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, MS student Statistics): Bayesian Stastical Methods in Protein Structure Prediction
Roy Hughes (PhD student, Biochemistry): Statistical mechanical models of protein ensembles; helix coil theory; analysis of amide exchange experiments (co-advised with Terry Oas)
Gary Larson (Phd student, Statistics): Multivariate Analysis of Directional Data
- Ryan Muraglia (PhD student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics): Free-energy calculations
Doug VanDerwerken (PhD student, Statistics): MCMC convergence; parallel MCMC
Kevin Wiehe (Bioinformatician, DHVI): Molecular dynamics and free energy simulations of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibodies
Shreyas Bharadwaj (Undergrad, CS): Free energy calculations for HIV antibody binding
Dan Roeder (Undergrad, Econ & Stat): Bayesian portfolio optimization
Current rotation students:
Past:
Chris Challis (PhD 2013): Bayesian Structural Phylogenetics. Now Marketing Analysis Senior Manager & Vice President, JP Morgan Chase.
Jianyu Wang (PhD 2013): Bayesian Modeling and Adaptive Monte Carlo with Geophysics Applications (co-advised with Robert Wolpert). Now Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, Indiana University.
Ben
Cooke (PhD 2008, Mathematics). Theory and
Practice in Replica-Exchange Molecular
Dynamics. Now Assistant Director, Duke
University Academic Skills Instruction Program.
Dawn Woodard (PhD 2007). Conditions for Rapid and Torpid Mixing of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions. Now Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University.
Joe Lucas (PhD 2006). Sparsity Modeling for High Dimensional Systems: Applications in Genomics and Structural Biology (co-advised with Mike West). Now Research Assistant Professor, Duke Institute of Genome Science & Policy.
Daniel Runcie (MS 2012). Bayesian Models for Relating Gene Expression and Morphological Shape Variation in Sea Urchin Larvae. PhD Biology. Now Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis.
Huidong Xu (MS 2009). Modeling Stochastic Switching of
Electric Field Distributions in Semiconductor
Superlattices. PhD Physics. Now Associate at BlackRock.
Botao Jia (MS 2009). Duke Free Electron Laser
Storage Ring Beam Energy Spread Analysis. PhD Physics. Now Associate, Financial Modeling Group, BlackRock
Xiang Zhou (MS 2009). Parameter Estimation in Ising
and Potts Models with Applications to
Computational Protein Design.
PhD Neurobiology. Now Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.
Jieru Zheng (MS 2006). Regularization and Model Selection for Quantitative
Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Studies of
MHC-Peptide Binding. PhD Chemistry. Now Associate Practice Executive at Campbell ALliance.
Michael Seo (BS 2011). Improved MCMC Sampling
for Bayesian CART. Honors thesis, high
distinction. Now MS student in Statistics at Stanford University.
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Committees |
PhD Thesis Committees:
- Kyle Daniels, Biochemistry, advisor Terry Oas
- Diana Fusco, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, advisor Patrick Charbonneau
- Roy Hughes, Biochemistry, advisor Terry Oas
- Kyle Roberts, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, advisor
Bruce Donald
- Rolando Estrada, PhD 2013, Computer Science, advisor Carlo Tomasi
- Jianyang (Michael) Zeng, PhD 2011, Computer Science, Duke University, advisor Bruce Donald
- Jarad Niemi, PhD 2009, Statistical Science, Duke University, advisor Mike West
- Ivelin Georgiev, PhD 2009, Computer Science, Duke University, advisor Bruce Donald
- Tingting Jiang, PhD 2007, Computer Science, Duke University, advisor Carlo Tomasi
- Juliette Colinas, PhD 2006, Biology, Duke University, advisor Philip Benfey
- Alexei Valiaev, PhD 2006, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke University, advisor Stefan Zauscher
MS and Prelim Committees:
- Ayal Gussow, PhD student, Computational Biology &
Bioinformatics (Prelim committee)
- Rotem Ben-Shachar, PhD student, Computational Biology &
Bioinformatics (Prelim committee)
- Jonathan (Kan) Li, PhD student, Biochemistry (Prelim committee)
- Kyle Daniels, PhD student, Biochemistry (Prelim committee)
- Roy Hughes, PhD student, Biochemistry (Prelim committee)
- Kyle Roberts, PhD student, Computational Biology &
Bioinformatics (Prelim committee)
- Jianyang (Michael) Zheng, PhD student, Computer Science (Prelim committee)
- Pablo Gainza, PhD student, Computer Science (2nd year project committee)
- Zhenglei Gao, MS 2008, Statistical Science, Duke University (MS committee)
- Nihshanka Debroy, PhD student, Computer Science (2nd year
project advisor)
- Jarad Niemi, PhD student, Statistical Science (Prelim committee)
- Faisal Reza, PhD student, Biomedical Engineering (Prelim committee)
- Zhi Ouyang, PhD student, ISDS (Prelim committee)
- Bei Wang, PhD student, Computer Science (2nd year project committee)
- Jen-Hwa Chu, PhD student, ISDS (Prelim committee)
- Merrill Liechty, PhD student, ISDS (Prelim committee)
- Ming Liao, PhD student, ISDS (Prelim committee)
- Hui Huang, MS student, ISDS (MS committee)
- Philippe Luedi, MS student, ISDS (MS committee)
- Ning Li, MS 2002, Statistics & Decision Sciences; PhD 2002
Fuqua School of Business (MS committee)
ISDS and CBB First-year advising:
- Matt Johnson (Statistics)
- Danilo Lopes (Statistics)
- Elena Edelman (BGT)
- Janine Wilcox (ISDS)
- Curtis Layton (BGT)
- Eric Vance (ISDS)
- Philippe Luedi (ISDS)
Undergraduate research advising:
- Michael Seo (BS 2011). Improved MCMC Sampling
for Bayesian CART. Honors thesis, high
distinction.
- Daniel Greenblatt, undergraduate student, Computer Science (2001-2)
Undergraduate Program II advising:
- Baris Koksalan (BS 2013, Decision Science)
Rotation students and RAs:
- Kai Fan (CBB)
- Adriana Hertel-Wulff (SBB)
- Ryan Muraglia (CBB)
- Shiwen Zhao (CBB)
- Chetanrrk Rupakheti (CBB)
- Chris Castorena (CBB)
- Anirudh Natarajan (CBB)
- Hsiang-Yu Yuan (CBB)
- Hongxia Yang (StatSci)
- Nishanka Debroy (CS)
- Hsiang-Yu Yuan (CBB)
- Rui Wang (CBB)
- Abel Rodriguez (ISDS)
- Haige Shen (CBB)
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