Lab Members

Current Members

Mikaela Nishida, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics (2021-present; Co-Advised with Michelle Nuño, USC)
Yiren (Sam) Xu, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics (2022-present)
Christina Magana-Ramirez, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics (2022-present)
Sarah Schlund, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics
(2023-present)
Emily Tian, BS
Phd student, UC Irvine Statistics (2026-present; Co-Advised with Michelle Nuño, USC)
Sean Leader, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics
(2024-present)
Winter Levaux, MS
PhD student, UC Irvine Statistics (2026-present)

Former Members

Adam Birnbaum, PhD (2025)
Post-Doc, UC Irvine
Thuy Lu, PhD (2025)
Senior Statistician
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (Co-Advised with Maricela Cruz, UW)
Roy Zawadzki, PhD (2024)
Equity Research Biostatistician UBS
Navneet Hakhu, PhD (2024)
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Cal State Fullerton
Congao Chu, PhD (2024)
Kyle Conniff, PhD (2024)
Post-Doc, UW Madison
Zhuoran Zhang, PhD (2023)
Senior Statistician, Merck
Olivia Bernstein, PhD (2022)
Mathematical Statistician, FDA
Mary Ryan, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin
Michelle Nuño, PhD (2020) Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, USC
Yannan Tang, PhD (2020)
Senior Statistician
Genentech
Maricela Cruz, PhD (2019)
Associate Researcher, Kaizer Research, Affiliate Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Lars Hertel, PhD (2019)
Machine Learning Engineer
LinkedIn
Koko Gulesserian, PhD (2016)
Lecturer of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
Lu Bai, PhD (2016)
Data Scientist, DiDi
Sepehr Akhavan Masouleh, PhD (2016) Research Scientist Manager, Meta
Steven Kim, PhD (2014)
Professor of Statistics, Cal State Monterey Bay
Vinh Nguyen, PhD (2011)
Sr. Research and Planning Analyst, Irvine Valley College
Sean Brummel, PhD (2010)
Senior Research Scientist, CBAR Harvard University
Adam Boyd, PhD (2010)
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Cogent Bioscienes