Students

I have the pleasure of advising many bright undergraduate and graduate students. I am currently working with following Ph.D. students:

1. Sumedha Dhar
2. Sreya Sarkar
3. Ian Hultman

Many students have moved on to the next phase of their careers after working with me at Iowa.

Ph.D. Alumni (and their first position)

1. Chunlei Wang, Data Scientist at Google.
2. Alex Liebrecht, Lecturer at the University of Iowa.

B.S. and M.S. Alumni (and their first position)

1. Kirtikanth Kalapatapu, Ph.D. student at the Purdue University.
2. Lyle Paukner, Biostatistician at Wake Forest University School of Medicine
3. Nathan Munshower, Actuary at Allianz, Minneapolis.
4. Yutong Jin, M.S. student at the University of Washington.
5. James “JC” Thomas, Ph.D. student at the School of Public Health, University of Iowa.
6. Ziyu Gao, Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University.
7. Yunyi Li, Ph.D. student at UT Austin.
8. Yixiang Xu, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.
9. Yilin Ye, M.S. student at Vanderbilt University.
10. Shiyang Chen, Analyst at ComScore.

If you’d like to work with me, please email me about your research interests. I am sure we can find a project that is interesting for us.

Collaborators

I collaborate with Dipankar Bandopadhyay and Ray Bai on divide-and-conquer methods for inference and prediction in Bayesian parametric and nonparametric models. Cheng Li and I began working on distributed Bayesian inference as postdoctoral researchers, and our current focus is on high-dimensional Gaussian processes.

I also work closely with scientists and clinicians. My methodological research is shaped by ongoing collaborations with the Hultman Lab in the College of Medicine. Together, the Hultman Lab and my group model local field potentials, gene expression, and imaging data.

With Kshitij Khare and Partha Sarkar, I am developing theory and algorithms supported by DMS-2506058.

If you have a project that could benefit from my expertise, please email me.