People

Principal Investigator

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Daniela Witten

Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics
Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair
University of Washington

PhD Students

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Zichun (Dwight) Xu

Biostatistics PhD student, 2023-present

Olivia McGough

Statistics PhD student, 2023-present

Ethan Ancell

Statistics PhD student, 2022-present

Ameer Dharamshi

Biostatistics PhD student, 2022-present

Ronan Perry

Statistics PhD student, 2022-present

Alumni

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Daniel Kessler

PhD 2023, University of Michigan
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, STOR / Data Science, in Summer 2024

Anna Neufeld

PhD 2023, Statistics
Assistant Professor at Williams College, Math & Statistics, in Summer 2024

Yiqun Chen

PhD 2022, Biostatistics
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins, Biostat, in Winter 2025

Arkajyoti (Arka) Saha

PhD 2021, Johns Hopkins Biostatistics
Assistant Professor at UC Irvine, Statistics, in Summer 2024

Yandi Shen

PhD 2021, Statistics
Co-advised with Fang Han
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon, Statistics, in Fall 2024

Iain Carmichael

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021
Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Pathology / Data Science, in Summer 2024

Lucy Gao

PhD 2020, Biostatistics
Assistant Professor at Univ. British Columbia, Statistics

Sean Jewell

PhD 2020, Statistics
Research Scientist at Apple Health AI

Guo (Hugo) Yu

Postdoc 2018-2020
Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara, Statistics

Shizhe Chen

PhD 2016, Biostatistics
Co-advised with Ali Shojaie
Assistant Professor at UC Davis, Statistics

Ashley Petersen

PhD 2016, Biostatistics
Co-advised with Noah Simon
Associate Professor at U. Minnesota, Biostatistics

Kean Ming Tan

PhD 2015, Biostatistics
Associate Professor at U. Michigan, Statistics

Arie Voorman

PhD 2014, Biostatistics
Co-advised with Ali Shojaie
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Interested in Joining?

If you have already been admitted to a PhD program at University of Washington, then please get in touch.

Unfortunately, I am unable to respond to most queries from prospective students who have not yet been admitted to a PhD program at UW.

I recruit postdocs on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in a postdoctoral position, then please e-mail me your CV and the names of three references.