Students

I have the pleasure to work with a great group of students. The students who are currently doing their Advanced Data Analysis (ADA) project or thesis project with me are:

• Anni Hong, PhD student, Statistics and Data Science
  Thesis work: Modeling multiplex networks.
  ADA project: Three-way network analysis of gossip.
• Princess Allotey, PhD student, Statistics and Public Policy
  ADA project: Health utilization among individuals experiencing homelessness. Joint with Rema Padman, Heinz College.
• Peem Lerdputtipongporn, PhD student, Statistics and Public Policy
  Thesis work: Causal inference in dynamic social network analysis. Joint with David Choi, Heinz College.
  ADA project: Modeling the length of hospital stay of sepsis patients. Joint with Larry Wasserman and George Chen, Heinz College.

Former students @ CMU

• Shihan Li (2024, PhD Public Policy and Management)
  Thesis work: Explaining the variation in people’s workplace experiences using a social network perspective. Joint with David Krackhardt, Heinz College.
• Quang Nguyen, PhD student, Statistics and Data Science (2023)
  ADA project: Relational event modeling of cooperation and conflict among organized crime groups.
• Joshua Choi (2023, BSc Statistics and Machine Learning)
  Dietrich Senior Honors thesis: The effect of relative academic standing in students’ social networks on academic growth.
• Sana Lakdawala (2022, MSc Machine Learning)
  Dietrich Senior Honors and MSc thesis: Modeling multilateral economic sanctions using relational event analysis.
• Weichen Wu, PhD student, Statistics and Data Science (2021)
  ADA project: developing model diagnostics and theory for Bradley-Terry models, with application to wiki survey data. Joint with Brian Junker.
• Xiaoyi Yang (2021, PhD Statistics and Data Science)
  Thesis work: extending network models for text data to include covariate-driven penalty structures with application to acquaintance networks in early modern Britain. Joint with Rebecca Nugent.
• Edric Eun, BSc student, Statistics and Data Science (2021)
  Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship: Modeling social influence on static networks using stochastic differential equations.
• Jiayi Pan, BSc student, Statistics and Data Science (2020)
• Yongqi Zhong, PhD student, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh (2020)
  Project (with Jiayi): collaboration on evidence synthesis in Africa: a network study of growing research capacity. Joint with Sarah Young, CMU Libraries.
• Yuting Shi, MSc student, Civil Engineering (2020)
  Project: Relational event models for food sharing in a community in Nicaragua.
• Matt Crespi (2019, PhD Public Policy and Management)
  Thesis work: Leveraging patient-sharing data to look at networks of physician-to-physician relationships within hospitals across the United States and their dynamics. Joint with David Krackhardt, Heinz College.

Former students @ University of Groningen

• Lianne Jansen (2015, MSc Mathematics)
  Thesis: Co-evolution of friendship and academic performance in an international setting. Joint with Ernst Wit, Mathematics.
• Ferdi Doddema (2014, MSc Mathematics Education)
  Thesis: Introduction to the stochastic actor-oriented model: A description and application of the model. Joint with Ernst Wit, Mathematics.