Lab Members and Alumni

Students, Post-Docs, and Alumni of the van der Laan Group

Current graduate students:

David Chen (joint with Maya Petersen)

Mary Combs

Lauren Eyler (joint with Maya Petersen)

William Krinsman

Rachael Phillips (joint with Alan Hubbard)

Wenxin Zhang


Post-docs and past visitors:

2020-present: Zeyi Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow

2018: Miguel-Angel Luque, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (visiting faculty)

2016-2018: Oleg Sofrygin, Postdoctoral Fellow

2015-2018: Caleb Miles, Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2018: Kara Rudolph, Postdoctoral Fellow

2018: Helene Rytgaard, University of Copenhagen (visiting PhD student)

2017: Karla Diaz-Ordaz, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (visiting faculty)

2017: Frank Blaauw, University of Groningen (visiting PhD student)

2016-2017: Antoine Chambaz, University Paris Descartes (visiting faculty)

2016-2017: David Benkeser, Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2017: Wenjing Zheng, Postdoctoral Fellow

2011-2014: Marco Carone, Postdoctoral Fellow

2007-2010: Hui Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow

2007: G. Reevens, Free University of Amsterdam (visiting PhD student)

2004-2007: Michael Rosenblum, Postdoctoral Fellow

2003-2005: Blythe Durbin, Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with Sandrine Dudoit)

2003-2004: Sunduz Keles, Postdoctoral Fellow NIH Genomics Grant (joint with Sandrine Dudoit)

2002-2003: Jonas Larson, Denmark Postdoctoral Fellowship

2001-2002: Chris Andrews, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics

2001-2002: Joerg Rahnenfuhrer (Germany), Postdoc in Biostatistics

1997-1998: Chris Andrews, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics


Alumni:

Laura Balzer, PhD, Asst Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health

Ed Bein, PhD, Researcher, UC Berkeley

Oliver Bembom, PhD, Distinguished Scientist, SiriusXM/Pandora

Aurelien Florent Bibaut, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Netflix

Merrill Birkner, PhD, Genentech

Alan Brookhart, PhD, Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University

Jordan Brooks

Jenny Bryan, PhD, Software Engineer, RStudio, and Adj. Professor, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia

Weixin Cai, PhD, Quantitative Researcher, Citadel, LLC

Paul Chaffee, PhD

Molly Davies, PhD

Iván Díaz, PhD, Asst Professor of Biostatistics, Weill Cornell Medicine

Susan Gruber, PhD, Principal, Putnam Data Sciences

Nima Hejazi, PhD, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine

Tanya Henneman, PhD, Researcher, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Alan Hubbard, PhD, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Cheng Ju, PhD, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Netflix

Sunduz Keles, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Erin LeDell, PhD, Chief Machine Learning Scientist, H2O.ai

Sam Lendle, PhD, Senior Staff Scientist, SiriusXM/Pandora

Jonathan M. Levy, PhD, Statistical Scientist, Genentech

Alex Luedtke, PhD, Asst Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

Ivana Malenica, PhD, Visiting Asst Professor of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley

Maja Miloslavsky, PhD, Assoc Director of Biostatistics, Teikoku Pharma USA

Annette Molinaro, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Kelly Moore, PhD, Data Science and Engineering Manager, Netflix

Romain Neugebauer, PhD, Research Scientist, Biostatistics Core, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Maya Petersen, MD, PhD, Assoc Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Derick Peterson, PhD, Assoc Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center

Katie Pollard, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Eric Polley, PhD, Asst Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic

Kristin Porter, PhD, Senior Associate, MDRC

Christopher Quale, PhD, Principal Biostatistician, Genomic Health

Sherri Rose, PhD, Assoc Professor, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University

Daniel Rubin, PhD, Statistician, FDA

Stephanie Sapp, PhD, Quantitative Analyst, Google

Sandra Sinisi, PhD, Senior Statistician, Abbott U.S.

Oleg Sofrygin, PhD, Research Scientist, Biostatistics Core, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Ori Stitelman, PhD, media6degrees

Boriska Toth, PhD

Cathy Tuglus, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, University of Southern California

Yue Wang, PhD, Senior Statistician, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Biao Xing, PhD, Senior Statistician, Genentech

Yue You, PhD, Data Scientist, Facebook

Zhuo Yu, PhD, Senior Statistician, Citigroup Credit Risk Department

Chi Zhang, PhD, Data Scientist, dotData

Wenjing Zheng, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix