Team

Current PhD Students

• David Fleischer, Statistics, McGill (joint with David Stephens)

• Ziang Gao, Statistics, McGill (joint with Masoud Asgharian)

• Yixuan Li, Statistics, McGill (joint with Yue Li)

• Weihua Shi, Statistics, McGill (joint with Yue Zhao)

• Mingqi Wu, Statistics, McGill (joint with Qiang Sun)

• Yijie Zhang, CS, McGill (joint with Mathieu Blanchette)

Current Masters Students

• Daniel Bensimon, Statistics, McGill (joint with Eric Kolacyzk)

• Dylan Fang, Statistics, McGill

• Qiushi Meng, Computer Science, McGill

• Francois Rocheleau, Statistics, McGill (joint with Christian Genest)

Past Postdoctoral Fellows

• Chi-Kuang Yeh, CANSSI distinguish postdoctoral fellow, McGill (joint with Peijun Sang, Qihuang Zhang and Celia Greenwood)
  -> Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University

Past PhD Students

• Peng Tang (2024)
  Statistics PhD, McGill (joint with Abbas Khalili)
  -> Joint Postdoctoral Scholar, Telfer School of Management & Heart Institute, University of Ottawa

• Yixiao Zeng (2024)
  Quantitative Life Science PhD, McGill (joint with Celia Greenwood)
  -> CANSSI Ontario Postdoctoral Researcher, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health

• Shomoita Alam (2023)
  Statistics PhD, McGill (joint with David Stephens)
  -> Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center -> Core Clinical Sciences

• Mohamed Ouhourane (2022)
  Statistics PhD, University of Quebec in Montreal (joint with Karim Oualkacha)
  -> Desjardins

• Yi Lian (2022)
  Biostatistics PhD, McGill (joint with Robert Platt)
  -> Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

• Lamin Juwara (2022)
  Quantitative Life Science PhD, McGill (joint with Paramita Saha Chaudhuri and Ana Miriam Velly)
  -> Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ottawa Hospital -> Government of Manitoba

• Sahir Bhatnagar (2018)
  Biostatistics PhD, McGill (joint with Celia Greenwood)
  -> Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, McGill University -> 5 Prime Sciences

Past Masters Students

• Jack Song (2026)
  Computer Science, McGill (joint with Yue Li)
  -> Fast-track to CS PhD at McGill

• Tiankang Lu (2026)
  Biostatistics, McGill (joint with Qihuang Zhang)

• Peter Park (2021)
  Statistics, McGill (joint with Xiangfei Meng)
  -> Federal Government of Canada

• Xiaonan Da (2021)
  Statistics, McGill (joint with Abbas Khalili)
  -> Statistics Canada

• David Fleischer (2020)
  Statistics, McGill (joint with David Stephens)
  -> Statistics PhD student, McGill

• Yasmine Bouguerche (2020)
  Statistics, McGill
  -> Desjardins

• Annik Gougeon (2019)
  Statistics, McGill (joint with Abbas Khalili)
  -> Statistics Canada

Past Undergraduate Trainees

• Ryan (John) Jackson (2026)
  -> MSc in Statistics, McGill

• Kini Chen (2026)
  BMO Junior Responsible AI Scholars Award
  -> Biostatistics PhD program, University of Washington

• Harri Vanhems (2026)
  -> MSc in Data Science, ETH Zürich

• Tian Bai (2025)
  SURA: Science Undergraduate Research Awards
  Research Manuscript: (a) Multivariate conformal selection. ICML
  (b) Conformal selection for efficient and accurate compound screening in drug discovery. JCIM
  -> Statistics PhD program, Stanford University

• Ziqi Ye (2024)
  Master of Advanced Study program, University of Cambridge

• Yuying Lu (2024)
  Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
  -> Biostatistics PhD program, Columbia University

• Yining Fan (2022)
  Research Manuscript: Transitions between heart failure states in adult patients with congenital heart disease.
  -> Master of Statistical Science program, University of Oxford

• Qiyu (Kally) Wang (2022)
  Research Manuscript: Transitions between heart failure states in adult patients with congenital heart disease.
  -> Statistics Masters program, University of California, Berkeley

• Andrew Cheng (2020)
  SURA: Science Undergraduate Research Awards
  -> Computer Science PhD program, Harvard University

• Ziang Niu (2020)
  -> Statistics PhD program, University of Pennsylvania

• Yixuan Li (2020)
  -> Statistics PhD program, McGill

• Simon Fontaine (2020)
  SURA: Science Undergraduate Research Awards
  Published Research: A unified approach to sparse tweedie modeling of multi-source insurance claim data. Technometrics
  -> Statistics PhD program, University of Michigan

• Mohan Zhao (2020)
  Published Research: Evaluating distributed policies for conjunctive surface water-groundwater management in large river basins: Water uses versus hydrological impacts. Water Resources Research
  -> Computer Science PhD program, University of Toronto

• He Zhou (2018)
  Published Research: Tweedie gradient boosting for extremely unbalanced zero-inflated data. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
  -> Statistics PhD program, University of Minnesota