CWRU’s School of Graduate Studies diploma ceremony was held Friday, May 16, 2025 on campus at the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center. This year, several Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Biomedical & Health Informatics PhD candidates affiliated with the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology whose degrees were conferred August 2024, January 2025, and May 2025 were honored. Also honored were Dr. Jonathan Haines, 2025 CWRU Distinguished University Professor, and Dr. Shiying Liu, 2025 Doctoral Excellence Award in Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Congratulations to our graduates! Check our alumni pages for updates on what are sure to be stellar careers in biomedical research and related work!
Zuxi Cui (mentored by Fred Schumacher): Assessing Genetic Imputation Quality and Its Application in Rare Variant Analysis for Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Simulation-Powered Approach
Daoyu Duan (mentored by Hao Harry Feng): New Analytical Methods in Study Design and Differential Analysis for Epigenomics Research
Emily Rae Hannon (mentored by Scott Williams): Assessing Heterogeneity of the Immune Response to Malaria in African Children
Shiying Liu (mentored by Dana Crawford): Determinants in Neurodegenerative Disease: Investigation of Parkinson’s Disease Severity and Alzheimer’s Disease Status in Multiple Populations
Arshiya Mariam-Smith (mentored by Daniel Rotroff): Identification and Prediction of Clinical Analogue Cohorts in Electronic Health Records
Leslie Guanqun Meng (mentored by Hao Harry Feng): Statistical Considerations in Cell Type Deconvolution and Cell-Type-Specific Differential Expression Analysis
Ping Wang (mentored by Jonathan Haines): Investigating Phenotypic Subtypes and Plasma Biomarkers to Advance Genetic Research on the Heterogeneity of Alzheimer Disease
Jing Zhang (mentored by Xiaofeng Zhu): Variance Estimation for Dynamic Functional Connectivity
