Pitt Biostatistics

Doctoral student Crystal Zang has won an Honorable Mention from the Mental Health Statistics Section for JSM for her dissertation paper "Supervised and covariate adjusted principal coordinates analysis for visualization and prediction using microbiome data." Crystal will present this work in the section's topic contributed session for awardees at JSM this summer. Congratulations, Crystal!

Congratulations to two outstanding students in our department! MS student Xin Li has been awarded the William T. Green, Jr. Award in Public Health Studies for her research on emerging risk factors and their temporal patterns in hospitalized COPD patients. PhD student Haoling Wang received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 ASA Section on Risk Analysis Student Paper Competition and will present his work on neural networks for interval-censored data at JSM. Both students are advised by Dr. Ying Ding, professor and associate dean for graduate academic affairs. We're proud of their achievements!

Come work for us! The Department of Biostatistics & Health Data Science is hiring!

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