Principal Investigators
Arnab Maity, Associate Professor
Research Interests: I am interested in functional data analysis, kernel machine regression, and semiparametric regression and inference, with a wide range of applications in gene and environmental studies, environmental epidemiology, and epigentics.
Website: http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~maity/,
Ana-Maria Staicu, Associate Professor
Research Interests: My research interests are primarily in functional data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, nonparametric statistics, and brain imaging analysis. This work has been applied to brain tractography studies of MS and brain imaging studies, wearable computing, animal studies, and environmental studies.
Website: http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~staicu/
Luo Xiao, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: I am interested in developing nonparametric and functional data methods and associated softwares with primary applications in wearable computing, neuro-imaging and other biostatistical fields.
Website: http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~xiao/
Students/Post-Docs
Current Students/Post-Docs
Mityl Biswas, PhD Student
Advisor: Arnab Maity (Expected Graduation: 2019)
Research interests: My current project involves hypothesis testing on regressing functional data on scalar variables.
Kara Martinez, PhD Student
Advisor: Arnab Maity (Expected Graduation: 2020)
Research Interests: My current research focuses on robust kernel machine methods with applications to genetic association testing involving non-normal responses.
Joonho Gong, PhD Student
Advisors: Arnab Maity (Expected Graduation: 2021)
Research Interests: My current research focuses on functional data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, numerical optimization, ensemble method and classification.
Alumni
Ruonan Li, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao (Graduated: 2022)
Dissertation: Functional Latent Factor Model.
First Job: Senior Scientist, Merck.
Lin Xiao, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao (Graduated: 2022)
First Job: Data Scientist, Google.
Salil Koner, PhD Student
Advisors: Arnab Maity & Ana-Maria Staicu (Graduated: 2021)
Dissertation: Modern Statistical Methods for Multivariate and Functional Data.
First Job: Postdoc, UPenn.
Caleb Weaver, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao (Graduated: 2021)
Dissertation: Biostatistical Methods for Longitudinal and Neuroimaging Data.
Zekun (Jack) Xu, PhD Student
Advisors: Ana-Maria Staicu & Eric Laber (Graduated: 2020)
Dissertation: Modern Methods of Hidden Markov Models and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes in Biostatistics.
Website: https://zekun-jack-xu.github.io/
First Job: Applied Scientist, Amazon.
Wanying Ma, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao (Graduated: 2019)
Dissertation: New Functional Data Methods for Neuroimaging Data.
Website: https://wma9.github.io/
First Job: Principal Biostatistician, Novartis.
Rahul Ghoshal, PhD Student
Advisor: Arnab Maity (Graduated: 2019)
Dissertation: Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Functional Concurrent Regression Model.
Stephanie Chen, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao & Ana-Maria Staicu (Graduated: 2019)
Dissertation: Hypothesis Testing for Functional and Repeated Measurements Data.
Website: https://stchen3.github.io/
First Job: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly.
Saebitna Oh, PhD Student
Advisor: Ana-Maria Staicu & Arnab Maity (Graduated: 2019)
Dissertation: Significance Tests for Longitudinal Functional Data.
First Job: Shinhan Bank, Korea.
Md Nazmul Islam, PhD Student
Advisor: Ana-Maria Staicu & Jonathan Stallings (Graduated: 2018)
Dissertation: Functional Data Analysis with Applications in Animal Science and Biomedical Engineering.
First Job: Research Associate, United Health.
Meredith King, PhD Student
Advisor: Ana-Maria Staicu (Graduated: 2018)
Dissertation: New Methods for Complex Problems in Functional Data Analysis.
First Job: Data Scientist, Northrop Grumman.
Haoyu Wang, PhD Student
Advisor: Arnab Maity & Brian Reich (Graduated: 2019)
Dissertation: Advances and Applications of Nonparametric Statistics.
First Job: Research Statistician Developer, SAS
So Young Park, PhD Student
Advisor: Ana-Maria Staicu (Graduated: 2017)
Dissertation: Longitudinal Functional Data Analysis with Biomedical Applications.
First Job: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly.
Cai Li, PhD Student
Advisor: Luo Xiao & Ana-Maria Staicu (Graduated: 2017)
Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Functional and Complex Data.
First Job: Post-doc, NCSU Statistics