For perspective students
If you didn’t hear back from me about your inquiry — I apologize but I may not have time to reply to all the inquiry emails — please follow the application process of our department and send in a full application package. A committee will review your application and create a short list for skype interview. After the interview, please contact me if you are interested in working with me. Thanks.
PhD students (current)
- Jingshuo Feng
- Feng Lin
- Wengeng Pan
- Ameer Hamza Shakur
PhD students (graduated)
- Mona Haghighi (graduated in 2016 at USF)
- Dissertation topic: “Rule-based Risk Monitoring Systems for Complex Datasets”
- Recipient of the Dissertation Completion Award in 2015
- INFORMS Professional Colloquium Travel Award in 2016
- First position: Optimization Statistician at Citi
- Current position: Senior Data Scientist at Verizon
- Yan Jin (2013 - 2017, UW)
- Dissertation topic: “Diagnostic Monitoring of High-dimensional Networked Systems”
- Finalist of INFORMS QSR 2015 best student paper competition
- Decision Science Professional Intern at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc
- First position: Research Scientist at JD.com Research Lab, California, USA
- Current position: Machine Learning Engineer at Aibee Inc
- Ying Lin (2012 - 2017, UW, co-advised with Dr. Shan Liu)
- Dissertation topic: “Large-Scale Personalized Health Surveillance by Collaborative Modeling and Selective Sensing”
- The Lee B. Lusted Student Prize from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in 2016
- Research Intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
- First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
- Yazhuo Liu (co-advised with Dr. Jose Zayas-Castro, graduated in 2015 at USF)
- Dissertation topic: “Patient Population, Clinical Association, and Systems Efficiency in Healthcare Delivery System”
- Aven Samareh (2017-2019)
- Dissertation topic: “Contemporary Health Monitoring and Biomarker Discovery by Integration of Big Patient Data and Disease Knowledge”
- Data Scientist Intern at Instacart
- Outstanding Female Engineer Award, Society of Women Engineers (SWE)’s at University of Washington
- Graduate School’s Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation Top Scholar Award at UW
- First position: Research Scientist at Convoy
- Cao Xiao (co-advised with Dr. W. Art Chaovalitwongse, graduated in 2016 at UW)
- Dissertation topic: “Optimization and Machine Learning Methods for Medical and Healthcare Applications”
- Research Intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Data Scientist Intern at LinkedIn
- Finalist of IIE-CIS Mobile App Competition in 2016 (Team lead of UW-CHI app)
- Graduate School’s Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation Top Scholar Award at UW
- First position: Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Current position: Director of Machine Learning. Analytics Center of Excellence, IQVIA
- Xi Zhu (co-advised with Dr. Cynthia Chen, graduated in 2020 at UW)
- Dissertation topic: “Individual Preference Learning with Collaborative Learning Framework”
Master students
- Yi He
- Ameer Hamza Shakur
Undergraduate students
- Borui Li (Developer of UW-CHI app)
- Eric Kammers (Participant of NSF REU)
- Tianyi Wang
- Fan Xu