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Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics

Comp. Biology & Bioinformatics
Structural Biology & Biophysics

Duke University

 
  

 
 
 

 
 
Graduate Students and Postdocs

Information for prospective students and postdocs.

 

Current:
  • Kevin Wiehe (Post-doctoral Fellow): Structural biology of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibodies

  • Marshall Thompson (PhD student, UPGG). Modeling post-transcriptional regulation networks. (co-advised with Jack Keene).

  • Huidong Xu (MS student, Statistics; PhD student, Physics). Modeling Stochastic Switching of Electric Field Distributions in Semiconductor Superlattices.

  • Rotation students:
    • Anirudh Natarajan (PhD student, CBB). Analysis of RBP regulatory networks.
    • Chris Castorena (PhD student, CBB). Bayesian methods for structural phylogenetics.
    • Chetan Rupakheti (PhD student, CBB). Molecular mechanics forcefields and polypeptide simulation.

Past:
  • Ben Cooke (PhD 2008, Mathematics). Theory and Practice in Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics.

  • Dawn Woodard (PhD 2007). Conditions for Rapid and Torpid Mixing of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions. Now Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University.

  • Joe Lucas (PhD 2006). Sparsity Modeling for High Dimensional Systems: Applications in Genomics and Structural Biology (co-advised with Mike West). Now Research Assistant Professor, Duke Institute of Genome Science & Policy.

  • Botao Jia (MS 2009). Duke Free Electron Laser Storage Ring Beam Energy Spread Analysis. Currently: PhD student, Physics.

  • Xiang Zhou (MS 2009). Parameter Estimation in Ising and Potts Models with Applications to Computational Protein Design. Currently: PhD student, Neurobiology.

  • Jieru Zheng (MS 2006). Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Studies of MHC-Peptide Binding. PhD Chemistry. Now at Michael Allen Co.

 

Committees

 

PhD Thesis Committees:
  • Jianyang (Michael) Zeng, Computer Science, advisor Bruce Donald
  • Roy Hughes, Biochemistry, advisor Terry Oas
  • Kyle Roberts, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, advisor Bruce Donald
  • Marshall Thompson, Genetics & Genomics, Duke University, advisor Jack Keene
  • Faisal Reza, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Duke University, advisor Jingdong Tian
  • Jarad Niemi, PhD 2009, Statistical Science, Duke University, advisor Mike West
  • Ivelin Georgiev, PhD 2009, Computer Science, Duke University, advisor Bruce Donald
  • Tingting Jiang, PhD 2007, Computer Science, Duke University, advisor Carlo Tomasi
  • Juliette Colinas, PhD 2006, Biology, Duke University, advisor Philip Benfey
  • Alexei Valiaev, PhD 2006, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke University, advisor Stefan Zauscher

MS and Prelim Committees:
  • Roy Hughes, PhD student, Biochemistry
  • Kyle Roberts, PhD student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
  • Jianyang (Michael) Zeng, PhD student, Computer Science
  • Chunlin Ji, PhD student, Statistical Science
  • Jarad Niemi, PhD student, Statistical Science
  • Faisal Reza, PhD student, Biomedical Engineering
  • Zhenglei Gao, MS 2008, Statistical Science, Duke University
  • Jeffrey Sipe, PhD student, ISDS
  • Zhi Ouyang, PhD student, ISDS
  • Jen-Hwa Chu, PhD student, ISDS
  • Merrill Liechty, PhD student, ISDS
  • Ming Liao, PhD student, ISDS
  • Hui Huang, MS student, ISDS
  • Philippe Luedi, MS student, ISDS
  • Ning Li, MS 2002, Statistics & Decision Sciences; PhD 2002 Fuqua School of Business

ISDS and CBB First-year advising:
  • Danilo Lopes (Statistics)
  • Elena Edelman (BGT)
  • Janine Wilcox (ISDS)
  • Curtis Layton (BGT)
  • Eric Vance (ISDS)
  • Philippe Luedi (ISDS)

Undergraduate research advising:
  • Daniel Greenblatt, undergraduate student, Computer Science (2001-2)

Rotation students and RAs:
  • Hongxia Yang (StatSci)
  • Nishanka Debroy (CS)
  • Hsiang-Yu Yuan (CBB)
  • Rui Wang (CBB)
  • Abel Rodriguez (ISDS)
  • Haige Shen (CBB)