Sheng Luo CV

Primary PhD dissertation advisor

1. Min Yi, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2011, dissertation title: "Bayesian and survival model for tumor relapse status and disease-specific survival, with applications to breast cancer". Current position: Senior Biostatistician at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
2. Geng Chen, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Fall 2014, dissertation title: "Bayesian inference for multivariate longitudinal data analysis using robust distributions". Current position: Senior biostatistician at GlaxoSmithKline.
3. Huirong Zhu, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on November 5, 2015, dissertation title: "Two-part mixture models for zero-inflated heterogeneous measurements and time to event data", co-advise with Stacia DeSantis, PhD. Current position: Biostatistician at Texas Children Hospital.
4. Li-An Lin, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on November 19, 2015, dissertation title: "Bayesian analysis of multi-type recurrent events with dependent termination". Current position: Senior biostatistician at Merck.
5. Jue Wang, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on May 19, 2016, dissertation title: "Dynamic predictions from joint models for multivariate longitudinal measurements and event time data". Current position: Senior biostatistician at Genentech.
6. Ming Yang, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on November 29, 2016, dissertation title: "Bayesian quantile regression joint models: inference and dynamic predictions", co-advise with Stacia DeSantis, PhD. Current position: Senior biostatistician at Genentech.
7. Kan Li, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on Feb 26, 2018, dissertation title: "Functional joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data", Current position: Senior biostatistician at Merck.
8. Jun Zhang, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, dissertation defense occurred on November 6, 2018, dissertation title: "Bayesian semi-parametric joint modeling for Parkinson's disease progression, competing failure times and missing data", Current position: Senior biostatistician at Blue Cross Blue Shield.
9. Xuehan Ren, doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, proposal defense occurred on April 27, 2017, dissertation title: "Dynamic prediction of recurrent cardiovascular events".

PhD dissertation committee

1. Lin Huo, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2011, dissertation title: "Bayesian adaptive design for early phase drug-combination clinical trials".
2. Yunfei Wang, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2012, dissertation title: "A simulation study using the hybrid statistics and the meta-analysis t-test for data with matched and unmatched subjects in the interim analysis of clinical trials".
3. Jin Young Byun, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2012, dissertation title: "A hybrid method in combining treatment effects from matched and unmatched studies".
4. Rui Xia, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in year 2014, dissertation title: "A likelihood-based statistical method to detect DNA aberrations in SNP array data of tumor samples with very high normal cell contamination using haplotype structure derived from population genotypes".
5. Austin Brown, doctoral in Epidemiology, graduated in Spring 2014, dissertation title: "Healthcase professional weight loss advice, diet, physical activity and obesity in the fire service".
6. Julia Benoit, doctoral in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2014, dissertation title: "A hidden Markov model approach to analyze longitudinal ternary outcome subject to possible misclassification".
7. Michele Vidoni, doctoral student in Epidemiology, graduated in Spring 2016, dissertation title: "Vitamin B12 and homocysteine associations with physical function measures in older adults, data from the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging". 
8. Yi-Ju Chiang, doctoral student in Biostatistics, dissertation proposal defense occured on August 18, 2016, dissertation title: "Bivariate longitudinal logistic models with misclassified covariates and outcomes".

Primary MS thesis advisor

1. Eunji Jo, master student in Biostatistics, graduated in Fall 2009, thesis title: "Comparison of Bayesian and frequentist approaches in clinical outcomes between hospitals".
2. Minjeong Park, master student in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2010, thesis title: "Effects of air pollution on asthma hospitalization rates in different age groups in metropolitan cities of Korea".
3. Xiao Su, master in Biostatistics, graduated in May 2012, thesis title: "Bayesian estimation of multilevel item response model with missing data".

MS students thesis committee

1. Farzana Noor Bindu, Master Student in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2012, thesis title: "Performance of classifying diabetes and diagnostic threshold for diabetes among the Mexican American border community".
2. Jin Li, Master Student in Biostatistics, graduated in Fall 2011, thesis title: "Nonlinear dimension reduction in pathway-based genome-wide association analysis".
3. Huandong Sun, Master Student in Biostatistics, graduated in Spring 2012, thesis title: "A computerized statistical framework for coalescent analysis".