Ph.D. Placements

After they graduate, alumni of the statistics Ph.D. program go on to work at colleges and universities in research, teaching, and tenure-track positions. They also take on a wide variety of roles in public and private organizations.

Recent Graduates

Learn more about the first jobs our Ph.D. alumni land after earning their degrees.

Class of 2023

Prince Allotey, Asst. Professor of Practice, University of Washington
Anhar Aloufi
Eric Baron, Senior Biostatistician, Servier Pharmaceuticals
Xiaolin Chang, Biostatistician, Moderna
Jianmin Chen
Simiao Gao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yale University
Zijian Huang, Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo
Yakov Khariton
Jackson Lautier, Asst. Professor,  Bentley University
Jung Wun Lee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jing Li
Yifan Li, Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young
Daeyoung Lim, Mathematical Statistician, CDER, FDA
Peiran Liu, Mathematical Statistician, CBER, FDA
Zhongmao Liu, Mathematical Statistician, CDER, FDA
Austin Menger, Founder, Menger Analytics
Namitha Pais, Postdoctoral Research, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Jiwon Park, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Epidemiology
Yong Qiao, Sr. Assoc. Data Scientist, Travelers
Jingyu Sun, Statistical Data Scientist , Revolution Medicines
Boyang Tang, Mathematical Statistician, FDA
Patrick Toman, Data Scientist, Hartford Steam Boiler
Ziyang Wang, Wells Fargo
Ganchao Wei
Hao Wu, Mathematical Statistician, CBER, FDA
Meiruo Xiang, Mathematical Statistician, CDER, FDA
Zehan Yang
Yelie Yuan, CCB Risk Program Associate, JP Morgan Chase
Katherine Zavez, Postdoctoral Research, UConn
Haiwei Zhou, Senior Statistician, AbbVie

 

More Ph.D. Placements

2022

Yuen Tsz (Abby) Lau, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pennsylvania, Biostatistics

Sai Ma, Senior Biostatistician, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Lubing Wang, Senior Associate, Travelers

Zhiyong Hu, Data Scientist, Microsoft

Srawan Bishnoi, Teaching Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Cheng Huang, Statistician, Vir Biotechnology

Wenlin Yuan, Statistician, Moderna

Hongfei Li, Principle Biostatistician, Incyte Corporation

Yiming Zhang, Mathematical Statistician, FDA

Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University

Chiranjit Dutta, Applied Researcher, Ebay

2021

Wei Shi, Senior Statistician, Modeling & Simulation, Amgen

Yaqiong Yao, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, Biostatistics

Wanwan Xu, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University

Xiaomeng Li, Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young

Biju Wang, Senior Biostatistician, Johnson & Johnson

Yan Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Biostatistics

Soumik Banerjee, Visiting Asst. Professor, Binghamton University

Jiyeon Song, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Biostatistics

Zhe Sun, Post Doc, Yale University

JooChul Lee, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Ziqi Yang, Ant Group

Qingyang Liu, Incyte Corporation

2020

Jinjian Mu, Ohio State University, College of Nursing

Shuang Yin, Transamerica Insurance

Ellis Shaffer, S & P Global

Cheng Zhang, Novartis

Qi Qi, Genetech

Zhe Wang, Asst. Prof., Denison University

Aritra Halder, Asst. Prof., University of Virginia, Bio-Complexity Institute

Lijiang Geng, Boehringer Ingelheim, Shanghai

Yulia Sidi, Takeda

Xiaokang Liu, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoc

Jieying Jiao, Travelers Insurance

Chaoran Hu, Eli Lilly and Company

2019

Renjie Chen, Zillow

Kangyang Liu, CTO Office, Motorola Solutions Company

Yishu Xue, Travelers Insurance

Yang Liu, Upstart

Tairan Ye, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Matthew Henry Linder, Oden Technologies

Qian Meng, Trinity

Disheng Mao, Microsoft

Wenjie Wang, Eli Lilly and Company

Paul McLaughlin, Penn State University

Di Zheng, Liberty Mutual Insurance

2018

Yeongjin Gwon, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Jun Hu, University of Vermont

Hao Li, Boehringer Ingelheim

Shariq Mohammed, University of Michigan

Ruochen Zha, Mapfre Insurance

Fan Zhang, Pfizer

Chen Zhang, Travelers Insurance

Yan Zhuang, Connecticut College

2017

Yaohua Zhang, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Ved Deshpande, Ebay

Aditya Mishra, Flatiron Institute

Abhishek Bishoyi, Selective Insurance

Sudeep Bapat, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jing Wu, University of Rhode Island

Daoyuan Shi, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Chongliang Luo, UConn Health Center

Yujing Jiang, Colorado State University

Gregory Vaughan, Bentley University

Dooti Roy, Boehringer Ingelheim

2016

Wei Fu, Mapfre Insurance

Brian Bader, KPMG

Abhisek Saha, MD Anderson Cancer Institute

Qianzhu Wu, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

Yu-Bo Wang, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD/NIH)

Chun Wang, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

2015

Hee-Koung Joeng, Merck

Patrick Harrington, Genomic Health, Inc.

Bo Zhao, Travelers Insurance

Dooti Roy, Biostatistician, Boehringer Ingelheim

Zhuo Wang, Shenzen University

Volodymyr Serhiyenko, Metabiota

Guang Ouyang, Data Scientist, Id Analytics

Chantal Larose, Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz

Gyuhyeong Goh, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

2014

Danjie Zhang, Biostatistician, Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Swarnali Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Old Dominion College

2013

Sankha Perrera, Linear Squared

Hongwei Shang, Hewlett Packard

Ashok Chaurasia, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Child Health & Human Dev.

Gong-Yi Liao, Northern Trust

Hongwei Shang, Researcher, Hewlett Packard Labs

Jennifer Boyko, Biostatistician, Boehringer Ingelheim

Sairam Rayaprolu, Decision Science Consultant, Disney

Steven Chiou, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Valerie Pare, Wesleyan University

Xiao (Leo) Wang, Assistant Vice President, Barclay’s

Xun Jiang, Statistician, Amgen

2012

Bhargab Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Hui Yao, Ernst & Young

Karthik Bharath, Visiting Assistant Professor at Department of Statistics, Ohio State University

Ran Liu, Biometrician, Merck

Rui Wu, Statistician, Novartis

Wenqing Li, Novartis

Yuanye Zhang, Senior Biostatistician, Novartis

Ziwen Wei, Statistician, Merck

2011

Arijit Sinha, Novartis

Debanjan Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Utah Valley University

Gregory Matthews, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts

Jeffrey Stratton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Marcos Prates, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Miaomiao Ge, Statistician, Boehringer Ingelheim

Xiaojing Wang, Google, New York City

2010

Sandra Hurtado-Rua, Postdoctoral Associate Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department of Public Health Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Yuchen Fama, Statistician, Travelers, Hartford, CT.

2009

Balaji Raman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Yale University, CT

Elijah Gaioni, IBM, TJ Watson, NY

Jian Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, NISS, North Carolina

Patrick Joyce, Census Bureau

Wangang Xie, Statistician, Abbott Laboratories, Illinois

Xia Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, NISS, North Carolina

Yifang Zhao

2008

Sourish Das, Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Faculty, SAMSI/Duke University, Durham, NC

Yingmei Xi, Averion International Corp., Southborough, MA

2007

Fang Yu, Biostatistics, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Feng Guo, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

Jaydip Mukhopadhyay, Bristol Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT

William Pepe, AT&T, NJ

2006

Changhong Song, Biostatistician at EMMES Corporation in Rockville, Maryland.

Samiran Ghosh, Mathematical Sciences Dept, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis

Sonali Das, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

Ulysses Diva, Bristol Meyers & Squibb, Wallingford, CT

2005

Hai Xu, Statistician, St. Paul Travelers, Hartford, CT.

Seongho Song, Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Zhaohui Liu, Senior Biostatistician, Novartis, Inc., NJ.

Zhenkui Zhang, Statistical Analyst, Liberty Mutual Bank, Boston, MA.

2004

Anandamayee Majumdar, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Arizona

Lan Huang, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Rockville, Maryland.

Madhuja Mallick, Biostatistician, Merck Research Laboratories.

Prashni Paliwal, Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT

Shanshan Wu, Statistician, ING Clarion, New York, NY

2003

Amitabha Bhaumik, Bristol-Myers-Squibb

Junfeng Liu, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

Rongwei Fu, School of Public Health, Oregon Science and Health University, Portland, Oregon

2002

Greg Cicconetti

Jun Ying, Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Cincinnati

2001

Athanasios Micheas, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Deepak K. Agarwal, Yahoo Corporation

Zhen Chen, Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

2000

Athanasios Kottas, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Fei Wang, Assistant Professor,Public Health School, Boston University

Kaushik Patra, Center for Biostatistics and AIDS Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Keith Holler, St. Pauls Travelers Insurance, Hartford, CT

Sudipto Banerjee, Biostatistics Dept, University of Minnesota

1999

Kenneth Klesczewski, Research Statistician, Bristol Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT

William Duggan, Research Statistician, Pfizer, Groton, CT

1998

Hui-May Chu, Statistician/Computing Scientist, CPBD, Inc. Cambridge, MA

Jie Chen, Statistician, Computing Service Dept. UMASS, Boston, MA

Murali Niverthi, Lincoln National Corp, Fort Wayne, IN

1997

Malini Iyengar, Glaxo Smith Klein, Philadelphia, PA
Mark Ecker, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Zuqiang Qiou, Vital Computer Services International Inc., Florham Park, NJ

1996

Dan Larose, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

Kuo-ren Lou, Tamkang University, Taiwan, ROC

Marco Bonetti, Institute of Quantitative Methods, Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy

Pantelis Vlachos, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

1995

Cristina Sison, North Shore University Hospital, NY

Hong Chang, Cooper and Lybrand, Boston, MA

Jeffrey Pai, University of Manitoba, Canada

Sujay Datta, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Tae Yang, Myongji University, Korea

1994

Bani Mallick, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Fengchun Peng, Department of Biostatistics, University of Rochester

Lea R. Birmiwal, Birminal Investment Trust

Sujit Sahu, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, U.K.

1993

Saibal Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India

Tai-Ming Lee, Department of Statistics, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

1992

Constantine Yiannoutsos, Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University-Purdue University

1990

Tumulesh Solanky, Professor,Department of Mathematics, University of New Orleans

Younshik Chung, Professor, Pusan National University, Korea

1989

Brad Carlin, School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota

Daniel Miller, Central Connecticut State University

Mabel H. Moreno

Pei-San Liao, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Phyllis Schumacher, Mathematics Department, Bryant College

1988

John Judge, Westfield State College

1987

James Kenyon, Senior Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Patrick Cantwell, Business Div, Bureau of the Census

Silvi Liberman, Statistics Department, Temple University (Deceased)

Steve Leeds, President, The Marketing Investigators

Suryoguritno Darmanto, Godjah Mada University, Indonesia

1985

Marsha Davis, Math and Computer Sciences Dept, Eastern Connecticut State University

Robert Leighty, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University

1981

John F. Carter, Donnelley Marketing Information Services

1979

William R. Stephenson, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

1978

Eleanor J. Dietz, Mathematics Dept., Meredith College, Raleigh, WC

1975

Brian W. Woodruff

Lawrence C. Berger

1974

Michael A. Fligner, Statistics Dept., Ohio State University

1973

Michael J. Barthel, DC Dept. of Human Services

1972

Labib J. Abdunnur

Richard C. Murphy

Teng-Shan Weng

William A. Powers III

1971

David F. Bauer, Math Science, Virginia Commonwealth University

Oswald G. DeLisser

Richard H. Lavoie, Dept. of Mathematics, Providence College

1970

Bodh R. Gulati, Southern Connecticut State University

David L. Fulton

Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor, CUNY

Mrs. Gene S. Sogliero

Shadeo K. Badhe

1968

Chris P. Tsokos, Dept. of Mathematics, University of South Florida

Donald Fridshal

Jimmie Dale Woods

Leigh Harrington

1966

David Salsburg, Statistical Consultant (our very first Ph.D.)

Vidya S. Taneja, Dept. of Mathematics, Western Illinois University

Class of 2022

Yuen Tsz (Abby) Lau, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pennsylvania, Biostatistics

Sai Ma, Senior Biostatistician, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Lubing Wang, Senior Associate, Travelers

Zhiyong Hu, Data Scientist, Microsoft

Srawan Bishnoi, Teaching Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Cheng Huang, Statistician, Vir Biotechnology

Wenlin Yuan, Statistician, Moderna

Hongfei Li, Principle Biostatistician, Incyte Corporation

Yiming Zhang, Mathematical Statistician, FDA

Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University

Chiranjit Dutta, Applied Researcher, Ebay