People

Our group brings together students from statistics, computer science, and neuroscience. Interested in joining? See the note for prospective students.

Ph.D. Students

Yang Xiang

Ph.D. student in Statistics (co-advised with Prof. Andrew Nobel)

Network alignment; continuous connectivity
Gabriel Sargent

Ph.D. student in Statistics (co-advised with Profs. Yufeng Liu and Will Wei Sun)

Prediction-powered inference
Ishmael Benjamin Torres Aguilar

Ph.D. student in Statistics (co-advised with Prof. Yufeng Liu)

Data integration; generative modeling; foundation models

Adrian Allen — Ph.D. in Statistics, UNC Chapel Hill (co-advised with Prof. Andrew Nobel). Thesis: Exploratory and Comparative Statistical Tools for Connectome Research
Andrew Ackerman — Ph.D. in Statistics, UNC Chapel Hill (co-advised with Profs. J. S. Marron and Jan Hannig). Thesis: Multi-faceted Brain Imaging Data Integration via Analysis of Subspaces
Martin Cole — Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Rochester, 2023 (co-advised with Prof. Xing Qiu). Thesis: Scratching the Surface: Surface-based Cortical Registration and Analysis of Connectivity Functions
Bayan Saparbayeva — Postdoctoral fellow, 2019–2021 (joint with Prof. Giovanni Schifitto).
Brian Rook — Postdoctoral fellow, 2018–2020 (joint with Prof. Feng Vankee Lin).

Yifei Zhang — M.S. in Statistics, UNC Chapel Hill. Next: Ph.D. student, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University. Thesis: Connectome Data Integration
Kyungjin Sohn — M.S. in Statistics, UNC Chapel Hill, 2023. Next: Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thesis: Brain Network Analysis
Jimin Choi — M.S. in Statistics, UNC Chapel Hill, 2022. Thesis: Human Trait Prediction Using Brain Connectome Data
Xuelin Wang — M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Rochester, 2020.
Huijing Ren — M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Rochester, 2020.
Sheng Wang — M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Rochester, 2019.

Ziqian Zhang — Undergraduate researcher, UNC Chapel Hill. Next: Ph.D. student, School of Data Science, University of Virginia.
Kaiyi (Kevin) Liu — Undergraduate researcher, Boston University (B.S. 2026). Next: Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.