Graduate Students

Ian Abrash

B.S. Statistics and Data Science, California State University Monterey Bay

Research Interest: Longitudinal Data, Spatial Statistics, Survival Analysis, Time Series, Bayesian Methods, Markov Chains
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: TBD
Office: OLMH 1108

iabra006@ucr.edu

Pitzer College BA in Mathematical Economics ’26 with a Spanish Minor

Research Interest: Adversarial Risk Analysis & Bayesian Decision Theory
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

jbece010@ucr.edu

Fangyi Cao

B.S. in Mathematics, University of Macau

M.S. in Biostatistics, University of California San Diego

Research Interests: High-Dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning, Astrostatistics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1108

fangyi.cao@email.ucr.edu

Bachelor of Science in Statistics-Statistical Data Science Track, UC Davis
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
Master of Science in Biostatistics, UC Davis

Research Interest: Biostatistics and clinical trials
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1108

xcen004@ucr.edu

Bachelor of Science in Data Theory at UCLA
Associate in Math at Glendale Community College
Associate in Economics at Glendale Community College

Research Interest: Causal Inference, Optimization, LLM Evaluation
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1108

edula002@ucr.edu

John Eager

B.S. In Applied Mathematics, Brown University

M.S In Applied Statistics, Louisiana State University

Research Interests: TBA

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1108

john.eager@email.ucr.edu

Behzad FallahiFard

M.S. in Statistics, University of New Mexico

M.S. in Mathematical Statistics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

B.S. in Statistics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1108

behzad.fallahifard@email.ucr.edu

Ji Feng

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1108

ji.feng1@email.ucr.edu

B.S. Statistics UCR

Research Interest: TBD
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

afern139@ucr.edu

Xiao Gao

B.S. In Statistics, Southern University of Science and Technology

M.S. In Applied Statistics, University of California Riverside

Research Interests: TBA

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1415

xgao045@ucr.edu

B.S. in Statistics, University of California Davis

Research Interest: Machine Learning, LLM Evaluation, Probabilistic Modeling
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1108

hhoan069@ucr.edu

Shyann Hou

B. Econ in Financial Mathematics, University of International Business and Economics

B. Mgt. in Information Management an Information Systems, University of International Business and Economics

M.S. in Mathematical Finance, University of Southern California

Research Interest: Stochastic modeling, machine learning, and reinforcement learning with applications in quantitative finance and complex systems
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: WEBB 2278

xiaoyang.hou@email.ucr.edu

Zhuo Huang

M.S in Data Analytics, University of Southern California

Research Interests: Deep Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Shujie Ma
Office: OLMH 1108

zhuan224@ucr.edu

Jonathan Jiang

B.S in Statistics, University of California, Davis

Degree Objective: M.S.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: TBA

jonathan.jiang@email.ucr.edu

Shuang Jiang

B.S. In Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Wuhan University

M.S. In Statistics, George Washington University

Research interests: TBA

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1108

shuang.jiang@email.ucr.edu

Nathalie Jones

2021 B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Applied Statistics and Data Analytics - Kennesaw State University
2023 M.S. in Data Science and Analytics - Kennesaw State University

Research Interest: Statistical Methods of all types, equitable AI/ML, graphical models
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1109

nathalie.jones@email.ucr.edu

Sharvee Joshi

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

2024 M.S. in Statistics, California State University Fullerton

Research interests: TBA

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Office: WEBB 2278

sharvee.joshi@email.ucr.edu

Undergraduate: BA Mathematics with Concentration in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Montana.

Research Interest: Bayesian Statistics and Hierarchical Modeling for Sports.
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

kkiel002@ucr.edu

Tian Liang

B.A In Mathematics, Oberlin College

Research Interests: TBD

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1109

tlian031@ucr.edu

Ying Lin

M.S. in Biostatistics, Emory University

B.A. in Statistics, Xiamen University

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1415

ying.lin1@email.ucr.edu

Pei-Ling Lin

B.S. in Economics, National Taiwan University

M.S. in Statistics, National Cheng Kung University

Research Interest: Biostatistics, Genomics, and High-dimensional Data
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1417

peiling.lin@email.ucr.edu

Linlin Liu

B.S. in Statistics, University of California Riverside

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1417

linlin.liu@email.ucr.edu

Yuxin Liu

BEC in Finance, Shenzhen University

BS in Applied Mathematics, Shenzhen University
MS in Applied Statistics, Cornell University

Research Interest: Machine Learning; Deep Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1419

yuxin.liu@email.ucr.edu

Ruijie Liu

MS in Statistics, Northwestern University

Research Interest: Casual Inference
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: WEBB 2278

ruijie.liu@email.ucr.edu

Bachelor's Degree in Management
Wuhan Science and Technology University

Research Interest: TBD
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

slong041@ucr.edu

Shijie Mao

B.A. in Data Science & Finance, University of Arizona

M.S. in Data Science, Brown University

Research Interest: Probability & Explanatory Theory of Deep Learning

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1111

smao027@ucr.edu

Ace Mejia-Sanchez

A.B in Statistics and Government, Harvard University

Research Interest: Casual Inference, Political Methodology, Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Data

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: WEBB 2278

aceisabel.mejiasanchez@email.ucr.edu

Yudi Mu

B.S. In Statistics, East China Normal University

M.S. In Statistics, University of Wisconsin Madison

Research Interests: Biostatistics, Machine Learning

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1417

ymu015@ucr.edu

Bachelor’s of Science- Statistics (Machine Learning) from University of California, Davis

Research Interest: Multivariate Spectral Analysis for Physiological Time Series
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

rmuns007@ucr.edu

Greyson Navarro

B.S. in Applied Mathematics, CSU San Bernadino
M.S. of Art - Mathematics, CSU San Bernadino

Research Interest:

Mathematical/ Statistical Oncology
Creating Predictive Models for Cancer Detection
Individualized Medicine
Parameter Estimation for PDEs
Sparse Data
High Dimensional Data
Mathematics and Statistics Pedagogy

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: WEBB 2278

walter.navarro@email.ucr.edu

Brian Neal

B.A. in Economics, University of California Santa Cruz

M.A. in Mathematics, San Francisco State University

Research Interests: Statistical Learning, Computational Statistics, Applications to Biology, Economics, Social Sciences, and Earth Sciences
Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1111

brian.neal@email.ucr.edu

Bachelor’s in Statistics from the University of California, Riverside

Research Interest: Bayesian Statistics
Degree Objective: M.S.
Major Professor: Shujie Ma
Office: OLMH 1108

znguy010@ucr.edu

Emily Ouyang

B.S. in Applied Statistics, University of California Riverside

Research Interests: Applications in Education Research

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1419

eouya001@ucr.edu

Bachelor’s in Statistics from the University of California, Riverside

Research Interest: Biostatistics and Spatial Statistics
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1109

tpalm006@ucr.edu

Sitong Pan

Masters at University of California Riverside

Bachelors at University of California San Diego

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, and Biostatistics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: OLMH 1419

sitong.pan@email.ucr.edu

Xinhao Qu

Research Interests: TBA

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1419

xinhao.qu@email.ucr.edu

B.S. Pure Mathematics at UCR
B.S. Statistics at UCR

Research Interest: Deep Learning, Nonparametric Statistics
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: OLMH 1108

mranj004@ucr.edu

BS Applied Math and BS Data Science, UC Irvine

Research Interest: Causal Inference, Dependent Data, Applications to Social Sciences/Public Health
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: N/A
Office: OLMH 1108

nsonn004@ucr.edu

Isaac Robles

B.A. in Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: N/A

isaac.robles@email.ucr.edu

Luhan Tang

2024 B.S. in Statistics, Beijing Normal University

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: WEBB 2278

luhan.tang@email.ucr.edu

Kaiming Wang

M.S. In Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandeis University

Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: WEBB 2278

kaiming.wang@email.ucr.edu

Xun Wang

B.A. in Applied Mathematics, Nanjing Audit University

M.S. in Actuarial Science, Central University of Finance and Economics

Research Interest: Not yet chosen

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1108

xwang567@ucr.edu

Yifan Wu

Bachelor, Sichuan University

Research Interest: Time Series, Large Language Model

Degree Objective: M.S.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: TBD

yifan.wu@email.ucr.edu

M.S. in Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.Econ. in Financial Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology

Research Interest: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, LLM
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Yuzhou Chen
Office: OLMH 1108

rxie025@ucr.edu

Yijia Xue

M.S in Applied Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

B.S in Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Biostatistics, survival analysis, scRNA-seq analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1109

yijia.xue@email.ucr.edu

Chenguang Yang

Research Interests: GNN, ML, LLM
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: WEBB 2278

chenguang.yang@email.ucr.edu

Sheng Yang

B.S in Statistics, Lanzhou University

Research Interests: High-Dimensional Statistics, Optimization, Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: WEBB 2278

sheng.yang1@email.ucr.edu

Tianjian Yang

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

Research Interest: Machine Learning, Statistical Computing, Biostatistics, and Optimization
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1419

tyang115@ucr.edu

Bradley Ye

B.S. in Statistics, University of California Riverside

M.S. in Statistics, University of California Berkley

Research Interest: TBD

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1109

bradley.ye@email.ucr.edu

Jingjing Zhang

Degree Objective: Ph.D.

Major Professor: Not yet chosen

Office: OLMH 1108

jzhan678@ucr.edu

Liming Zhao

M.S. in Applied Statistics, Syracuse University

B.Sc. (Hons) in Investment Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research Interest: Linear Models and Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: OLMH 1109

lzhao087@ucr.edu

B.Eng in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Master in Applied Statistics, Ohio State University

Research Interest: Deep Learning, Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Yuzhou Chen
Office: OLMH 1108

yzhan1242@ucr.edu

Bufan Zhou

Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: TBD

bufan.zhou@email.ucr.edu

Graduate Students

Ian Abrash

Fangyi Cao

John Eager

Behzad FallahiFard

Ji Feng

Xiao Gao

​Shyann Hou

Zhuo Huang

Jonathan Jiang

Shuang Jiang

Nathalie Jones

Sharvee Joshi

Tian Liang

Ying Lin

Pei-Ling Lin

Linlin Liu

Yuxin Liu

Ruijie Liu

Shijie Mao

Ace Mejia-Sanchez

Yudi Mu

Greyson Navarro

Brian Neal

Emily Ouyang

Sitong Pan

Xinhao Qu

Isaac Robles

Luhan Tang

Kaiming Wang

Xun Wang

Yifan Wu

Yijia Xue

Chenguang Yang

Sheng Yang

Tianjian Yang

Bradley Ye

Jingjing Zhang

Liming Zhao

Bufan Zhou

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