KECHRIS LAB MEMBERS

Arunangshu Sarkar Biostatistics PhD Student (2023- )

Diana Felipe Biostatistics MS student (2025 - )

Emily Kokesh Biostatistics MS student (2025 - )

Justin Selbert Biostatistics MS Student (2023- )

Mahi Mahfuza Research Assistant (2025 - )

Ryan Summers Biostatistics MS student (2026 - )

ALUMNI

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Thao Vu, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow (2020-2023) Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Informatics, CU Anschutz
• Souvik Seal, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow (2020-2022) Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Medical University of South Carolina
• Debmalya Nandy, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow (2019-2022) Current Position: Holistic Health & Alternative Medicine Practitioner
• Elin Shaddox, PhD Post-doctoral Fellow (2019-2022) Current Position: Biostatistician, Foundation Medicine
• Pratyaydipta Rudra, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow (2015-2018) Current Position: Assistant Professor, Statistics, Oklahoma State University
• Wen Jenny Shi, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow (2015-2018) Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, zeroG AI in Aviation

PhD Students

• Weixuan Liu, PhD Biostatistics PhD Student (2019-2024) Current Position: Data Science Manager, GSK
• Yonghua Zhuang, PhD Biostatistics PhD Student (2017-2022) Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Service at Cancer Center, CU Anschutz
• Charlotte Siska Computational Bioscience PhD Student (2012-2016) Current Position: Senior Applied Machine Learning Researcher, Microsoft
• Nick Walter, MD, PhD Epidemiology PhD Student (2012-2015, with Tasha Fingerlin) Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, CU Anschutz
• Daniel Dvorkin, Ph.D. Computational Bioscience PhD Student (2009-2013) Current Position: Bioinformatics Consultant, Bioinformatics CRO
• Betsy Siewert, Ph.D. Biostatistics PhD Student (2006-2010) Current Position: Statistical Consultant, Statistically Speaking

Masters Students

• Emily Aaron Statistics MS Student (2024-2025, with Laura Saba)
• Jonathan “Trent” VanHawkins Biostatistics MS student (2022-2023, with Wei Perng) Current Position: PhD Student, Statistics, Oregon State University
• Erika Esquinca (2021-2023, with Randi Johnson) Current Position: Senior Biostatistican, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics
• Sierra Niemiec Biostatistics MS Student (2020-2022, with Anne Starling) Current Position: Research Instructor, CU Anschutz
• Emily Cooper Biostatistics MS Student (2020-2021) Current Position: Research Instructor, CU Anschutz
• Tim Vigers Biostatistics MS Student (2019-2021, with Lauren Vanderlinden) Current Position: Research Instructor, CU Anschutz
• Jonathan Dekermanjian Biostatistics MS Student (2019-2021, with Debashis Ghosh) Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Recovery Centers of America
• Guannan Shen Biostatistics MS Student (2018-2019, with Miranda Kroehl) Current Position: Research Services Professional, Biostatistics and Analytic Core, ACCORDS, CU Anschutz
• Cuining Liu Biostatistics MS Student (2017-2019) Current Position: PhD Student, UCLA
• Gordon Kordas Biostatistics MS Student (2018-2019) Current Position: Data Scientist, Charter Communications
• Elizabeth Litkowski Biostatistics MS Student (2017-2018, with Laura Saba) Current Position: Post-doc, University of Michigan
• Yonghua Zhuang, PhD Biostatistics MS Student (2014-2016) Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Cancer Center, CU Anschutz
• Mikaela Miller, MA, MPH, MS Biostatistics MS Student (2014-2015) Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, CVS Health
• Grant Hughes, MS Biostatistics MS Student (2011-2013) Current Position: Senior Biostatistician, Telligen
• Timothy Bahr, MS, MD Biostatistics MS Student (2010-2011) Current Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Investigation, University of Utah

Other Students

• Eitan Halper-Stromberg Phd Medical Student (2018-2019, with Russell Bowler) Current Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• Lucas Gillenwater Epidemiology MPH Student (2018, with Russell Bowler) Current Position: PhD Student, Computational Bioscience, CU Anschutz
• Corey Cox Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology MPS Student (2018) Current Position: Sr. Professional Research Assistant, CU Anschutz

Research Assistants

• Sakaiza Rasolofomanana Rajery, Research Assistant (2021-2023) Current Position: PhD Student, HMGGP Program, CU Anschutz
• Suneeta Godbole, MS Research Assistant (2020-2023) Current Position: Biostatistics PhD Student, CU Anschutz
• Charles Carpenter, MS Research Assistant (2020-2022) Current Position: Statistician, Neptune & Company
• Max McGrath Research Assistant (2019- 2022) Current Position: Research Instructor, CU Anschutz
• Michael Daniels, MS Biostatistics PhD Student (2016-2018) Current Position: Biostatistician, University of Louisville
• Pamela Russell, MA Computational Biologist (2014-2017) Current Position: Principal Scientist, Generate Biomedicines
• Brian Vestal, MS Biostatistics Research Assistant (2014-2017) Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, National Jewish Health
• Junxiao Hu, MS Research Assistant (2014-2015) Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, CU Anschutz
• Stephen Flink, Ph.D. Professional Research Assistant (2009-2010)
• Stefan Sillau, Ph.D. Research Assistant (2008-2009) Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Neurology, CU Anschutz