Mentorship
Assistant Professors and Postdocs
Faculty mentor to Dr. Sahil Bajaj, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Mentor to Dr. Qiyiwen Zhang, postdoctoral research associate at University of Pennsylvania (Primary Mentor: Dr. Qi Long).
Primary mentor to Dr. Tsung-Hung Yao (postdoctoral research associate) at The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Primary mentor to Dr. Moumita Chakraborty (postdoctoral research associate) at The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Primary mentor to Dr. Xin Ma, postdoctoral research associate at Florida State University (joint supervision with Dr. Anuj Srivastava).
Primary mentor to Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee, postdoctoral research associate at University of Pennsylvania (joint supervision with Dr. Qi Long).
Mentor to Dr. Changgee Chang, postdoctoral research associate at Emory University (Primary mentor: Dr. Qi Long). Currently research faculty at University of Pennsylvania.
Mentor for VA Career Development award to Dr. Lisa Crystal Krishnamurthy titled “Beyond lesion-language mapping in aphasia: A novel imaging-based prediction model.” Funding received. Award period: 07/2018-2020.
Mentor for K23-award submitted by Dr. Jessica Keller titled “Neurobiology of treatment response in an intensive outpatient exposure therapy for PTSD.”
Mentor for K23-award submitted by Dr. Sara Turbow, MD, MPH (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics) titled “iCAREFOR: Inter-hospital Care Fragmentation in Older Adults with Dementia.”
Doctoral Students
Dissertation Advisor for Dr. Ixavier Higgins (2014-2019); co-advisor Dr. Ying Guo, currently at Eli Lilly.
Dissertation Advisor for Mr. Joshua Lukemire (2015-2021); co-advisor Dr. Ying Guo.
Dissertation Advisor for Mr. Jin Ming at Emory University (2016-2022).
Dissertation Advisor for Ms. Xin Ma at Emory University (2016-2022).
Faculty Mentor to first-year doctoral students Ms. Ye Yue and Mr. Sohail Nizam at Emory University.
Dissertation Committee Member for Dr. Shi Ran at Emory University (2016-2018).
Academic Supervisor for Ms. Zixi Yang at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (2021-2023).
Dissertation Advisor for Ms. Yajie Liu at UT MD Anderson (2022-present).
Dissertation Co-advisor for Ms. Rongke Lyu at Rice University (2023-present).
Dissertation Co-advisor for Ms. Janet Fu at Rice University (2023-present).
Dissertation Advisor for Ms. Zihan Yang at UT MD Anderson (2024-present).
Dissertation Committee Member for Yeseul Kim, GSBS program, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Sept 2024-present).
Dissertation Committee Member for David Martinus, GSBS program, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Jan 2024-present).
Masters Students
- Summer Research Supervisor for Ms. Ye Yue (Summer 2018).
- Next: Completed MS in Statistics from Columbia University. Doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, Emory University.
- Masters Thesis Advisor for Ms. Junhan Fang (MS, 2014-2016); joint with Dr. Ying Guo.
- Thesis: “Between-group comparisons of structural and functional brain connectivity.”
- Next: Doctoral student in Biostatistics at the University of Waterloo.
- Thesis: “Between-group comparisons of structural and functional brain connectivity.”
- Masters Thesis Advisor for Mr. Jin Ming (MS, 2014-2016).
- Thesis: “A Bayesian approach for dynamic brain networks.”
- Next: Doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, Emory University.
- Thesis: “A Bayesian approach for dynamic brain networks.”
- Masters Thesis Advisor for Mr. Praveen Suthaharan (MS, 2017-2019).
- Thesis: “Latent Class Analysis for PTSD Subtype Discovery.”
- Currently an intern in Computational Psychiatry Research at Harvard University, McLean Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Diego A. Pizzagalli.
- Thesis: “Latent Class Analysis for PTSD Subtype Discovery.”
- Masters Thesis Committee Member for Mr. Yuchen Yan (2019).
- Thesis: “Cell-type specific alteration of DNA methylation in Alzheimer’s Disease.”
- Masters Thesis Committee Member for Mr. Zhifang Sang (2016).
- Thesis: “Extending and Evaluating Scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms for Big Data Problems.”
- Practicum Training and Thesis Advisor for Mr. Alec Reinhardt at Emory (2021-2022).
- Thesis: “Bayesian Tensor Modeling Approaches for Data Harmonization.”