Details for British Columbia trainees and alumni are presented here by trainee level. Information includes their term, academic status, supervising faculty, and research project carried out during their training.

Current Trainees

PhD Students
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Siying Ma

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University
Mentor(s):
Lloyd Elliott (primary),
Lin Zhang

Project Title:
Scientific Machine Learning for Biostatistics: A Perspective on Functional and Epidemiological Modeling

Term: Dec 2025 - Dec 2027
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Milad Vahedi

Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Mentor(s):
Graeme Koelwyn (primary),
Lin Zhang

Project Title:
Inflammatory memory in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Term: Dec 2025 - Dec 2027
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Denitsa Vasileva

Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia
Mentor(s):
Denise Daley (primary),
Keegan Korthauer

Project Title:
Development of Accurate Epigenetic Clocks Across the Lifespan

Term: Dec 2025 - Dec 2027
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Zikai Xu

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University
Mentor(s):
Lin Zhang (primary),
Lloyd Elliott

Project Title:
Meta-analysis with Overlapping Subjects: An Adjusted Fisher's Method

Term: Dec 2025 - Dec 2027