November 24, 2025
Student Research Spotlight October 2025
The Department of Statistics is celebrating research achievements by our current and recently graduated students in terms of publications over the last year. In the first edition, we are highlighting 7 recent publications by 9 of our students. More posts highlighting the research of many other students will come in the upcoming months.
The papers in this collection have all appeared in 2025 or late 2024. The students whose papers are being featured are: Yoonji Kim, Ruoyuan Qian, Biqing Yang, Kiljae Lee, Emerson Webb, Zixuan (Shawn) Chen, Juan Xie, Fangyi Wang, Kartik Lovekar.
Congratulations to all of them!
Sequential Bayesian Registration for Functional Data
Yoonji Kim, Oksana Chkrebtii, Sebastian Kurtek
Statistics and Computing
Matching-Assisted Power Prior for Incorporating Real-World Data in Randomized Clinical Trial Analysis
Ruoyuan Qian, Biqing Yang, Xinyi Xu, Bo Lu
Statistics in Medicine
Leave-One-Out Stable Conformal Prediction
Kiljae Lee, Yuan Zhang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
The promise of composite likelihood for species-level phylogenomic inference
Kubatko, L., S. Kong, Emerson Webb, and Zixuan (Shawn) Chen.
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society
Tumor-Associated NK Cells Regulate Distinct CD8+ T-cell Differentiation Program in Cancer and Contribute to Resistance against Immune Checkpoint Blockers
No-Joon Song, Juan Xie, Kyeong Joo Jung, Yi Wang, Joanna Pozniak, Niccolo Roda, Jean-Christophe Marine, Brian P Riesenberg, Hyeongseon Jeon, Anjun Ma, Nathanael Cox, Darren Wethington, Kelsi Reynolds, Tong Xiao, Anqi Li, Parker Kronen, Nicholas Denko, David P Carbone, Qin Ma, William E Carson III, Bethany L Mundy-Bosse, Christin E Burd, Jayajit Das, Dongjun Chung, Zihai Li
Cancer Discovery
Probabilistic Size-and-shape Functional Mixed Models
Fangyi Wang, Karthik Bharath, Oksana Chkrebtii, Sebastian Kurtek
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Testing for the network small-world property
Kartik Lovekar, Srijan Sengupta, Subhadeep Paul
Electronic Journal of Statistics