Department of Biostatistics
Date
June 22, 2023
Congratulations to our graduating Class of 2023!
Our 2023 graduates included five Doctorate, 19 Master’s graduates and seven Undergraduate Statistics Concentrators.
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Joe Hogan addresses the graduates
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Happy graduates celebrate their achievement
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2023 Biostatistics graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
- Yi Cao
- Dana Udwin
- Xiaoyu Wei
- Jiabei Yang
- Ruotao Zhang
Master of Science
- Antonella Basso
- Sirui Cui
- Tianye Cui
- Zhejia Dong
- Kyla Finlayson
- Anthony Girard
- Timothy Hedspeth
- Anusha Kumar
- Yutong Li
- Yanru Liao
- Abraham Liu
- Nancy Liu
- Rophence Ojiambo
- Amos Okutse
- Breanna Richards
- Talia Seshaiah
- Yufei Yan
- ZeXuan Yu
- Yifan Zhao
Bachelor of Science
- Zeke Hertz
- David Moon
- Annorjan Naguleswaran
- Nathan Provost
- Abigail Sinotte
- Linda Wakamoto
- Colby Zarle
Reception
On Saturday, May 27th, the Biostatistics department held our annual Commencement Reception celebration, where Department Chair Joseph Hogan, gave his remarks and recognized the extraordinary achievements of our students.
Master of Science Thesis Award of Excellence
The 2023 Master of Science Thesis Award of Excellence was awarded to Amos Okutse
Since 2012, we have recognized the thesis work of Master of Science graduates whose outstanding research work has resulted in a consequential thesis.This year, the Master of Science Thesis Award of Excellence was awarded to Amos Okutse, for his thesis entitled, “Machine Learning Methods for Bias Correction and Precision Optimization Using Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Trials With Missing Data” Amos worked with Joseph Hogan, Ph.D. as his thesis advisor.
Capstone Poster Award of Excellence
The 2023 Capstone Poster Award of Excellence was awarded to Nathan Provost
Every year, the Undergraduate Statistics Concentration students are required to exhibit their research work through poster presentations. On April 21st, 7 graduating statistics undergraduate concentrators presented their Capstone work. The 2023 Capstone Poster Award of Excellence was awarded to Nathan Provost, for his poster entitled “Asymptotic Error Bounds for Nonparametric Censoring Unbiased Estimators of Restricted Mean Survival Times”, Nathan’s Capstone Advisor was Roee Gutman, Ph.D.
Thank you to all who joined us to help us celebrate our graduates, faculty and another successful academic year! Congratulations to all our graduates on such a milestone event in your lives. We can’t wait to see what you do next!