
Matthew Arthur
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

Fangyi Cao
BS in Mathematics, University of Macau
MS in Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: High-Dimensional statistics, Machine Learning, Astrostatistics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: Olmsted 1108

Sichen Chen
2015 B.S. in Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Michigan State University, MI
2018 M.S. in Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD
Research Interests: Discovering and solving reaction-diffusion models for pollen tube tip growth with deep learning algorithm
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Xingping cui
Office: Olmsted 1108
Christian Duenas
2021 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108

Benjamin (Jeff) Ellis
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

Shiwei Fu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
shiwei.fu@email.ucr.edu
Xiao Gao
2019 B.S. in Statistics, Southern University of Science and Technology, PRC
2021 M.S. in Applied Statistics, University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1415
Eric Hayes
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
Ke Huang
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: Shujie Ma
Office: Olmsted 1415
ke.huang@email.ucr.edu
Yutong Huang
2020 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA
Research Interest: Statistics, Business Analysis, Biological Analysis
Degree Objective: M.S. in Statistics
Office: Olmsted 1113
yutong.huang@email.ucr.edu

Queen Ikhelowa
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 1417
queen.ikhelowa@email.ucr.edu
Shuang Jiang
2019 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Wuhan University, PRC
2021 M.S. in Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
Nahee Kim
2019 B.E. in Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
2021 M.S. in Applied Statistics, Korea University, Republic of Korea
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109

Thomas Kim
1994 B.A. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1998 M.S. in Mathematics, Calif. State University of Hayward, CA
2014 PHD in Pharmacy, Touro University, CA
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.

Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia
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
Randall Lai
2021 B.A. in Mathematics, Boston University, MA
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.

Jericho Lawson
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 1111
jericho.lawson@email.ucr.edu
Namhwa Lee
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 1417
namhwa.lee@email.ucr.edu
Tian Liang
2021 B.A. in Mathematics, Oberlin College, OH
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
Ruijing Liu
2022 B.S. in Data Science and Technology of Big Data, Taiyuan University of Technology
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: Olmsted 1419
ruijing.liu@email.ucr.edu

Jing Ling
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: Olmsted 1419

Ruihan Lu
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 analysis, Nonparametric Model, Mixture Models
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Yehua Li
Office: Olmsted 1417
ruihan.lu@email.ucr.edu

Bradley Lubich
2017 B.S. in Statistics, California Polytech State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Research Interests: Mixture Models, Non-Parametric Methods, Distribution-Robust Inference, Multidimensional test statistics, Clinical Trial Design
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Daniel Jeske
Office: Olmsted 1108
bradley.lubich@email.ucr.edu
Andrew Luo
2020 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Rui Ma
2019 B.S. in Actuarial Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Wenxiu Ma
Office: Olmsted 1415
rui.ma003@email.ucr.edu
Evan Mason
B.A. in Pure Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
B.A. in Economics with Honors, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Research Interest: Non Parametric Statistics and Variable Selection
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1417
evan.mason@email.ucr.edu
Yun Mo
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 1108
yun.mo@email.ucr.edu
Yudi Mu
2020 B.S. in Statistics, East China Normal University, PRC
2020 M.S. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Research Interests: Biostatistics, Machine Learning
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1417
Brian Neal
B.A. in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
MA Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Research Interests: Statistical Learning, Computational Statistics, Applications to Biology, Economics, Social Sciences and Earth Sciences
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: Olmsted 1111
brian.neal@email.ucr.edu

Emily Ouyang
2021 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: Olmsted 1419
Sitong Pan
2021 B.S. in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: Olmsted 1419

Gokul Parakulam
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
John Pleines
2020 B.A. in Economics, Calif. State University of San Marcos, CA
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1419
Xin Shen
2016 B.B.A. in Accounting, Tongji University, PRC
2018 M.S. in Statistics, Rutgers University, NJ
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1109
student@email.ucr.edu
Chin-Sheng Teng
2021 B.S. in Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Research Interests: TBA
Degree Objective: Ph.D in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1108
cteng011@ucr.edu
Ruotian Shi
2019 B.S. in Statistics & Mathematics, The University of Iowa
2022 M.S. in Statistics, Rutgers University
Research Interests: High-Dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Sport Analytics
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: Olmsted 1108
Brian Tran
2019 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA
Research Interest: Biostatistics, Longitudinal Data and Time Series Analysis
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: Not yet chosen
Office: Olmsted 1417
brian.tran002@email.ucr.edu

Noe Vidales
2010 B.S. in Commerce, Santa Clara University, CA
2019 M.A. in Economics, San Jose State University, CA
Research Interests: Markov Chains, Random Number Generation, Probability Theory, High Dimensional Statistics
Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Applied Statistics
Major Professor: James Flegal
Office: Olmsted 1111
noe.vidales@email.ucr.edu

Nir Voloshin
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
Changxin Xie
2020 B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
Office: Olmsted 1113

Tianjian Yang
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

Junjie Yu
2020 B.S. in Statistics, San Francisco University, CA
Research Interest: TBA
Degree Objective: M.S.
student@email.ucr.edu

Xunyang Ye
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Office: Olmsted 1109
Jiaxin Zhang
2021 B.S. in Statistics, Calif. State University of Hayward, CA
Degree Objective: M.S.