Group

Current Members

Wei Li
Wei Vivian Li
PhD Student
liw [at] stat.ucla.edu
Wei is a PhD student at UCLA Department of Statistics. She has a BS in statistics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is working with Jessica and Zahra on developing testing-based measures (TROM/EPOM) for comparing genomic samples from the same or different species. She is also working on statistical method for isoform abundance estimation based on multiple RNA-seq replicates with Jessica and other collaborators.



Zahra Razaee
Zahra Razaee
PhD Student
razaee [at] ucla.edu
Zahra is a PhD student in Statistics at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA, she got her masters degree in statistics from the University of Michigan. Her research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and statistical network analysis. She is currently working with Jessica to develop statistical models to infer similar functional gene groups between distant species.



Yiling Chen
Yiling Chen
Undergraduate Student
estellechen102 [at] gmail.com
Yiling is an undergraduate math major student with a stats minor at UCLA. She joined this group in January, 2015 and has assisted in the development of CRAN package TROM. Her research interests haven't been finalised yet, but she enjoyed her project on TROM and would like to do deeper on a graduate level. She likes working out, and reading books on self and social cognition.



Yimeng Jia
Yimeng Jia
Undergraduate Student
emily0.0melody [at] gmail.com
Yimeng Jia is currently an undergraduate student in UCLA. She is working on a collaborative pain research project that develops mathematical and statistical models for a pain management mobile application.




Jason Mao
Jason Mao
Undergraduate Student
jason.mao16 [at] gmail.com
Jason is an undergraduate statistics major at UCLA. He joined the group in Spring 2015 and is currently also working on the collaborative project that is developing a mobile application to create real-time, adaptive recommendations for people with chronic diseases.





Former Members
  • Ruiqi Gao, visiting undergraduate student (summer 2015), currently undergraduate student in Statistics at Peking University
  • Xin Xu, visiting undergraduate student (2014-2015), currently PhD student in Statistics at Yale
  • Yuting Ye, visiting undergraduate student (2014-2015), currently graduate student in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley