Research Group Members
I’m extremely fortunate to work with several amazing students to whom I serve as primary or co-advisor.
Current
Principal Investigator
PhD Candidate (Biostat)
PhD Candidate (Biostat)
PhD Candidate (Biostat)
PhD Candidate (Biostat)
PhD Student (Biostat)
PhD Student (Biostat)
Undergraduate Students (those writing paper with lab is marked with $^*$):
- $^*$Peter Yang, Undergrad, Math/Computer Science/Stat, U of Michigan. “Apple SensorKit Data Analysis”
- $^*$Jianhan Zhang, co-mentored by Jitao Wang Undergrad, Pure Math, Data Science, U of Michigan. “Counterfactual Fairness in Reinforcement Learning”
Research Staff
- Zihan Wang. MS, Biostatistics, U of Michigan (2025).
Support Staff
Support Staff
Alumni
Please send an email to zhenkewu@gmail[punto]com for updates.
Former PhD Students:
PhD(Stat),19;NSF Grad Fellow
PhD (Biostat), 2023
PhD (Biostat), 2023
PhD (Biostat), 2023
PhD (Biostat), 2023
Former MS Students:
- Abigail Loe. Next position: PhD Student in UMich Biostat
- Xingran Chen. Next position: PhD Student in UMich Biostat
- Jieru Shi. Next position: PhD Student in UMich Biostat
- Jitao Wang. Next position: PhD Student in UMich Biostat
- Mengbing Li. Next position: PhD Student in UMich Biostat
- Chen Chen, MS, Biostatistics, 2022, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Graduate Student Research Assistant (November 2021 to August 2022; co-advise with Mike Elliott). (Variance as a predictor for survival outcomes). First position after graduation: PhD Student in Biostatistics, University of Toronto.
- Jing Chu, MS in Applied Statistics, Department of Statistics, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2018. Topic: Regression Extension to Bayesian Analytic Kit for Etiology Research (baker).
- 2019 Summer: Zhongyuan Lyu, MS, Applied Statistics, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Summer Intern. (Latent Class Model and Sparse Additive Regression Models). First position after graduation: Hong Kong University of Technology and Science, Math PhD Student. Now: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney Business School,
Former Undergraduate Students (those who wrote paper in the lab is marked with $^*$):
- 2024 Fall: Owen Yoo, Undergrad, Statistics and Data Science, Minor in Music, U of Michigan. “Prior elicitation algorithms for inferring causes of death from computer-coded verbal autopsy data”
- $^*$2023 Summer: Bolin Wu (co-mentored by Mengbing Li), Undergrad, Computer Science, U Of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “Shinyapp for Enhancing Latent Class Analysis using Dirichlet Diffusion Tree”. First position after graduation: Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Computational Data Science Program.
- 2021 Summer: Jiayuan Dong, MS, Accelerated Master Degree Program (ADMP), U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Summer Intern. (Readings on Probablistic Graphical Models). First position after graduation: UMich, Mechanical Engineering PhD Student