Mentorship

Assistant Professors and Postdocs

  • Mentor to Dr. Qiyiwen Zhang, postdoctoral research associate at University of Pennsylvania (Primary Mentor: Dr. Qi Long). Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Primary mentor to Dr. Soumya Sahu, postdoctoral research associate at The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Oct 2025–present).

  • Primary mentor to Dr. Tsung-Hung Yao, postdoctoral research associate at The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center. (Sept 2024-Present)

  • Co-mentor to Dr. Moumita Chakraborty, postdoctoral research associate at The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Currently Assistant Professor at UTMB Galveston.

  • Primary mentor to Dr. Xin Ma, postdoctoral research associate at Florida State University (joint supervision with Dr. Anuj Srivastava). Currently Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

  • Co-mentor to Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee, postdoctoral research associate at University of Pennsylvania (joint supervision with Dr. Qi Long). Currently Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, India.

  • Co-mentor to Dr. Changgee Chang, postdoctoral research associate at Emory University (Primary Mentor: Dr. Qi Long). Currently Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine.

  • Co-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.

  • Co-mentor for K23 award submitted by Dr. Jessica Keller titled “Neurobiology of treatment response in an intensive outpatient exposure therapy for PTSD.”

  • Co-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 Lucas McCullum, GSBS program, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Jan 2024–present).

  • Dissertation Committee Member for David Martinus, GSBS program, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Jan 2024–present).

  • Dissertation Committee Member for Yeseul Kim, GSBS program, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Sept 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”