Keles Research Group

GROUP MEMBERS

Part of the group (July’08) . (K. Eng, X. Li, S. Keles - A. B. Yavuz, D. Chung, P-F. Kuan).

Thursday group July’08. Farewell to Hector, Weiliang and Ted.

Thursday group Sep’07.

• Sunduz Keles, Ph.D. [bio]
  PI
  keles[at]stat.wisc.edu

Graduate Students:

• Guannan Sun: Spring 2010 -.
• Xin Zeng: Spring 2010 -.
• Chen Zuo: Fall 2010-.
• Kailei Chen: Fall 2012-.
• Rene Welch: Fall 2012-.

Postdoctoral Researchers:

• Oguz Akbilgic: Starting July 2013.
• Qi Zhang: Starting July 2013.

Undergraduate Students:

• Nick Etzel: Fall 2012-.

ALUMNI

Ph.D. Students:

• Hyonho Chun (2008).

Dissertation title: Simultaneous Dimension Reduction and Variable Selection with Sparse Partial Least Squares, with Applications to High Dimensional Genomic Data.

Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University (Fall 2010 - ). Postdoctoral researcher at Prof.Hongyu Zhao’s group at Yale University (Spring 2009-Summer 2010).

• Pei-Fen Kuan (2009).

Dissertation title: Statistical methods for the analysis of genomic data from tiling arrays and next generation sequencing technologies.

Current position: Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at UNC Chapel Hill.

•  Kevin Eng (2011). 

Dissertation title: Statistical methods for neutral inference in comparative experiments.

Current position. Postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Kendziorski’s group.

•  Dongjun Chung (2012). 

Dissertation title: Statistical methods and software for ChIP-seq data analysis.

Current position. Postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Hongyu Zhao’s group.

Postdocs:

• Kun Liang: Fall 2010-Spring 2012.

Current position. Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science.

• Dongjun Chung: Fall 2012.

          Current position. Postdoctoral researcher in Professor Hongyu Zhao’s group.

Rotation students/PAs/RAs.

• Heejung Shim: Fall 2005 - Spring 2006.
  Project assistant.
  Current position: Larget Group.
• Jee-Young Moon: Fall 2005.
  Biostat trainee/rotation student.
  Current position: Yandell Group.
• John Dawson: Fall 2006.
  Biostat Trainee/Rotation student.
  Current position: Kendziorski Group.
• Yang Zhang: Fall 2007.
  Biostat trainee/rotation student.
• Brittany Schwefel: Fall 2009.
  Biostat trainee/rotation student.
• Xin Li: Summer 2008-Spring 2010.
  Research assistant.
• Chenliang Xu: Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
  Research assistant.
• Ju Hee Cho: Fall 2010.
  Research assistant.
• Jianan Tian. Spring 2011 - Summer 2011.
  Research assistant.
• Tram Ta. Spring 2012.
  Biostat trainee/rotation student.

Summer Research Program Participants:

• Nadia Abuelezam: Summer 2007. Undergrad research student. Participant of the Computational Biology and Biostatistics Research Program.

Undergraduate Students:

• Adam Hinz: Spring 2008-Spring 2009. Undergraduate programmer.