2015 B.S. in Mathematics, University of Minnesota, MN
2015 B.S. in Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Minnesota, MN
2015 B.A. in Economics, University of Minnesota, MN

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1109
matthew.arthur@email.ucr.edu 

2013 B.S. in Mathematics, Texas A&M University, TX
2013 B.S. in Physics, Texas A&M University, TX
2015 M.S. in Astrophysics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Research Interests: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Bayesian Computation, Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: James Flegal
Office: Olmsted 1415
deepak.bastola@email.ucr.edu

2014 B.S. in Mathematics, Westmont College, CA
2014 B.A. in Physics, Westmont College, CA

Research Interests: Survival Analysis, Clustering, Bayesian Statistics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Yehua Li
Office: Olmsted 1108
michael.brannan@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S. 
silin.cai@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.A. in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
diana.chen@email.ucr.edu

2009 B.S. in Engineering, Shandong University, PRC
2012 M.S. in Engineering, Shandong University, PRC
2017 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
limei.chan@email.ucr.edu

2015 B.S. in Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Michigan State University, MI
2018 M.S. in Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD

Research Interests:  Using Deep Learning to Solve PDE
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor:  Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
sichen.chen@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.E. in Statistics, Renmin University of China, PRC
2018 M.S. in Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

Research interest: Mixture Model
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
lin.cong@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interests: Causal Inference, Longitudinal Analysis, Extreme Value Analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1111
benjamin.ellis@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.S. in Statistics, Xidian University, PRC

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
xin.feng@ucr.edu

2016 B.S. in Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, PA
2017 M.A. in Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Research Interests: General Statistics, Multivariate Models
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
dylan.friel@.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, Southern University of Science and Technology, PRC

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Email: xiao.gao@email.ucr.edu

2014 B.A. in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2018 M.S. in Statistics, San Diego State University, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1109
eric.hayes@email.ucr.edu

2017 B.S. in Applied Statistics, Jiangsu Normal University, PRC
2019 M.S. in Statistics, Texas A&M University, TX

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
ke.huang@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
yutong.huang@email.ucr.edu

2019 M.S. in Biostatistics, California State University, East Bay, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
queen.ikhelowa@email.ucr.edu

2014 B.E. in Economics, Ewha Womans University, Rep. of Korea
2014 B.S. in Statistics, Ewha Womans University, Rep. of Korea
2017 M.S. in Statistics,  Ewha Womans University, Rep. of Korea

Research Interests: High-dimensional Data Analysis, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods, Mixture Models
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Weixin Yao 
Office: Olmsted 1108
suyeon.kang@email.ucr.edu

2008 B.A. in Liberal Studies with concentration in Business Administration, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interests:  Clinical Trials and study design
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor:  Wenxiu Ma
Office: Olmsted 1108
luke.klein@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA
2018 M.S. in Statistics, Ball State University, IND

Research Interests:  Machine Learning and Data Mining
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor:  Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
rebecca.kurtz@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Mathematics with an Applied Emphasis, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2020 B.S. in Statistics and Data Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Research Interest: Sports Analytics, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1113
jericho.lawson@email.ucr.edu

2013 B.S. in Statistics, Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea
2013 B.S. in Nursing, Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea
2017 M.S. in Statistics, Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1111
joowon.lee@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.A. in Mathematics, Smith College, MA
2019 B.A. in Statistical and Data Sciences, Smith College, MA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
julia.lee003@email.ucr.edu

2018 B.E. in Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Rep. of Korea
2020 M.S. in Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Rep. of Korea

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1415
namhwa.lee@email.ucr.edu

2014 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Renmin University of China, PRC
2016 M.A. in Statistics, Columbia University, NY

Research Interests: Bioinformatics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Wenxiu Ma
Office: Olmsted 1419
huiling.liu@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.S. in Microbiology, University of California, San Diego, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
justin.liu@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Statistics, Beijing Normal University, PRC

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
kaicen.liu@email.ucr.edu

2013 B.S. in Information and Computing Science, Zhengzhou University, PRC

Research Interests: Subgroup Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Shujie Ma
Office: Olmsted 1111
mingming.liu002@email.ucr.edu

2018 B.S. in Applied Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, PRC

Research Interests: Functional data analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
shihao.liu@email.ucr.edu

2011 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Wuhan University, PRC
2015 M.E. in Financial Engineering, Wuhan University, PRC

Research Interests:  Dimensionality reduction, Nonparametric and Semiparametric inference, High-dimensional data analysis, Machine learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Shujie Ma
Office: Olmsted 1111
ying.liu007@email.ucr.edu

2015 M.S. in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
2013 B.S. in Information and Computing Science, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, PRC

Research Interests: Longitudinal Data, Nonparametric Methods
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Yehua Li
Office: Olmsted 1415
ruihan.lu@email.ucr.edu

2017 B.S. in Statistics, California Polytech State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Research Interests: Nonparametric Modeling
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
bradley.lubich@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Actuarial Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 B.A. in Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
rui.ma003@email.ucr.edu

2012 B.A. in Pure Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2012 B.A. in Economics with Honors, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Research Interest: Non Parametric Statistics and Algorithm
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1417
evan.mason@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interest: Experimental Design
Degree Objective: M.S.
trey.mcgonigle@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Information and Numerical Science, Nankai University, PRC
2020 M.S. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Research Interest: THigh Dimensional Statistics and Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1417
yun.mo@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
nathan.niculae@email.ucr.edu

2010 B.S. in Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2014 M.S. in Statistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests: Dimension Reduction, Data Mining, Visualization
Degree Object: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1108
po.niu@email.ucr.edu

2017 B.S. in Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
gokul.parakulam@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
kim.phan001@email.ucr.edu

2013 B.S. in Biology, California State University, Monterey Bay, CA
2015 M.P.H. in Public Health, San Diego State University, CA

Research Interests: Biostatistics, Survival Models, Health Equity
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Esra Kurum
Research Website: vita.iqbiostats.com
Office: Olmsted 1419
isaac.quintanilla@email.ucr.edu

2013 B.S. in Statistics, University of Calcutta, India
2015 M.S. in Statistics, Presidency University, India

Research Interests: Varying Coefficient Models, Longitudanal Data Analysis, Survival Data Analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Esra Kurum
Office: Olmsted 1417
debaleena.sain@email.ucr.edu

2010 B.A. in Communication, China Agricultural University, PRC
2011 M.S. in Advertising, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK

Research Interests: Nonparametric Multivariate Analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor:  Jun Li
Office: Olmsted 1415
linli.tang@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interest: Biostatistics, Stochastic Processes, Longitudinal Data and Time Series Analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1417
brian.tran002@email.ucr.edu

2010 B.S. in Commerce, Santa Clara University, CA
2019 M.A. in Economics, San Jose State University, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1111
noe.vidales@email.ucr.edu

2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
nir.voloshin@email.ucr.edu

2018 B.S. in Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, CA
2020 M.S. in Mathematics, California State University of Long Beach, CA

Research Interest: Time Series, Bayesian, Multivariate, Application in Environmental Science and Social Science
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1419
bao.vu@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
changxin.xie@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.E. in Statistics (Actuarial & Risk Management), Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, PRC

Research Interests: Statistical Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor:  Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1419
jiacheng.xue@email.ucr.edu

2013 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Shandong University, PRC
2016 M.S. in Statistics, University of Connecticut, CT

Research Interests: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Density Estimation
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: James Flegal
Office: Olmsted 1419
jinhui.yang@email.ucr.edu

2017 B.S. in Statistics, Sun Yat-sen University, PRC
2020 M.S. in Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Research Interest: Machine Learning, Statistical Computing, Biostatistics, and Optimization
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen 
Office: Olmsted 1419
tianjian.yang@email.ucr.edu

2015 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Beihang University, PRC
2016 M.S. in Mathematics, Texas A & M University, TX

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Multiple Comparison Procedure
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Xinping Cui
Office: Olmsted 1108
song.zhai@email.ucr.edu

2016 B.E. in Pharmaceutical Engineering, Tianjin University, PRC
2017 M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
jiamei.zhang@email.ucr.edu

2020 B.S. in Laboratory Medicine, Peking University, PRC

Research Interest: Biostatistics
Degree Objective: M.S.
linqi.zhang@email.ucr.edu

2010 B.E. in International Economics and Trade, Sichuan Normal University, PRC

Research Interests: Causal Inference, Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Weixin Yao
Office: Olmsted 1109
mi.zhou@email.ucr.edu