PhD Placements
PhD Graduates
The following gives the current employer (if known) of recent PhD graduates. For dissertation titles, please see Graduate Student Research
Zheng Yuan, 2025
Judy Zhang, 2024
Tim Tsz-Kit Lau, 2023
Postdoctoral Principal Researcher, Econometrics and Statistics, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Joanna (Jiahui) Lyu, 2023
Walmart Inc.
Sebastian Rodriguez, 2022
ZS Consulting
Yajun Liu, 2022
Amazon
Wei Ju, 2021
Facebook
Mena Whalen, 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University, Chicago
Sarah Peko-Spicer, 2021
Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research
Rrita Zejnullahi, 2021
Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and the College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
Kaitlyn Fitzgerald, 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, Azusa Pacific University
Aaron Kleyn, 2021
Biostatistician, Arcus Biosciences
Yiming Xu, 2020
Facebook
Oscar Zarate, 2020
Data Scientist, Microsoft
Yiben Yang, 2020
Research Scientist, Facebook
Yang Yu, 2020
Data Scientist, Facebook
Austin Alleman, 2020
Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Yuanjing Ma, 2020
Data Scientist, Point72 Asset Management
Pan Wang, 2019
Principal Biostatistician, Biogen
Ruimin Zhu, 2019
Pinterest
Mindy Hong, 2019
Clinical Research Statistician, Hinge Health
Minhui Zheng, 2019
Data Scientist, Google
Yishu Wei, 2019
Research Scientist, Facebook
Wenqian Wang, 2019
Data Scientist, LinkedIn Corporation
Yuan Li, 2018
Data scientist, Google, Inc.
Bin Xiong, 2018
Assistant Vice President, Citi
Jingsi Zhang, 2018
Research Scientist, Amazon
Jacob Schauer, 2018
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine
Ran Yang, 2018
Machine Learning Engineer, Facebook
Rachel Ktsanes, 2017
PayNet
Grace Yoon, 2017
Postdoc, Texas A&M University
Xuan Mei, 2017
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Wendy Chan, 2016
Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Yi Gao, 2016
Statistician at Google
Xiaofei Hu, 2016
Data Scientist, Twitter
Zachary Seeskin, 2016
Statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago
Arend M. Kuyper, 2015
Director of Data Science and Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern University
Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, 2015
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences
Qingyang Zhang, 2015
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas
Cheng Li, 2014
Assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore
Patrick Yu Zhao, 2014
Risk Strategy Advisor, Ant Financial
Jiangtao Gou, 2014
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Villanova University
Jiening Martin Chen, 2014
Data Scientist, Volterra
Zhenyu Zhao, 2014
Data Science Director, Tencent
Yang Tang, 2014
Kenneth McCallum, 2013
Data Scientist, Amazon
James Pustejovsky, 2013
School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dong Xi, 2013
Novartis, NJ
Juanjuan Li, 2012
Associate Director, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Eduardo Fonseca Mendes, 2012
School of Applied Mathematics, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Huanhuan Wang, 2012
Reining Capital, China
Elizabeth (Beth) Tipton, 2011
Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Northwestern Univeristy
Elaine Yi Wu, 201
Director, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
LiLi Yao, 2011
Associate Principal Scientist, Merck
Yuan Liao, 2010
Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University
Kunyang Shi, 2010
Forest Laboratories, NJ
Lingyun Liu, 2009
Director, Biostatistics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Christopher Rhoads, 2008
NEAG School of Education, University of Connecticut
Haoliang Eric Song, 2007
Senior Director, Biostatistics, Neoleukin Therapeutics
Xin Wang, 2006
Senior Director, Bristol Myers Squibb
Jiaxiao Shi, 2006
Kaiser Permanente
Zhiping Linda Sun, 2005
Senior Director, Biostatistics, Merck
Heping He, 2004
Gary Harntsbarger, 2002
Senior Scientific Fellow, Takeda
Alexandre Xavier Ywata de Carvalho, 2002
Head of Econometrics, Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada, Brazil
Hua Li, 2001
Shuguang Huang, 2001
Chief Scientific Officer, Stat4ward LLC
Brent Logan, 2001
Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Xiangyang Liu, 2000
Johnson and Johnson
Shengyan Sam Hong, 1998
Executive Director, MacroGenics, Inc.
Joan Z. Yu, 1998
Consumer and Market Knowledge, Procter & Gamble
Jason A. Osborne, 1997
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Yi-Lin Chiu, 1997
Director, Statistics at AbbVie
Jill R. Glassman, 1995
Biostatistician/Senior Manager Quantitative Analysis, Stanford School of Medicine
Edward C. Malthouse, 1995
Integrated Marketing Communications Department, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Daniel B. Hall, 1994
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Paul Coe, 1993
Dominican University
Eric D. Nordmoe, 1993
Department of Mathematics, Kalamazoo College
Jiahe Qian, 1993
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