Featured Alumni
Hilary Robbins, MSPH ’12, MHS, PhD ’18
Robbins works as a scientist and joint lead of the Risk Assessment and Early Detection (RED) Team at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Hilary Robbins, MSPH ’12, MHS, PhD ’18, presenting at the 2025 G7 Cancer conference, “Poor Prognosis Cancers: From Resignation to Revolution."
ScM Graduates: Where Are They Now?
Alumni Spotlight: Qier Meng, ScM ’22
Qier Meng, ScM ’22, is a senior computational statistician at Eli Lilly and Company, where she works to address complex health-related research questions.
Alumni Spotlight: Ruthe Huang, ScM '19
Ruthe Huang, ScM ’19, is a senior data scientist with Practical Intelligence, specializing in statistical modeling and data visualization.
Alumni Spotlight: Nathan Dyjack, ScM ’22
Nathan Dyjack, ScM ’22, is a healthcare data scientist at the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center.
Featured MHS Alumni
Zhi Yu, MHS, PhD ’20, is an investigator and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an affiliate faculty member at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
PhD Graduates: Where Are They Now
Alumni Spotlight: Bohao Tang, PhD ’23
Bohao Tang, PhD ’23, is a Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma, a financial sciences company.
Alumni Spotlight: Jenna Krall, PhD '14
Jenna Krall, PhD '14, is an associate professor in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason University College of Public Health, with research interests in air pollution and environmental epidemiology.
Alumni Spotlight: Erjia Cui, PhD '23
Erjia Cui, PhD ’23, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the University of Minnesota.
Meet More Alumni
Kipper Fletez-Brant, MHS, PhD ’18
Kipper Fletez-Brant, MHS, PhD ’18, is currently a senior scientist at Genentech.
Bingkai Wang, PhD ’21
Bingkai Wang, PhD ’21, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Junrui Di, PhD ’19
Junrui Di works at Pfizer as a Digital Medicine Statistician, where he is part of Pfizer Research & Development's AI/ML Quantitative and Digital Sciences group, specializing as a Digital Medicine.
Christopher Lo, ScM '23
Christopher Lo is a data science trainer in the Data Science Lab at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center where he teaches biomedical data science to the Fred Hutch Cancer Center community.
Russell (Taki) Shinohara, PhD ’12
Russell (Taki) Shinohara currently serves as principal investigator of three methodological research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Dorry Segev, MHS, ’09
Dorry Segev is currently the Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology, and associate vice chair in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University.
Amanda Mejia, PhD ’16
Amanda Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and a member of the Program in Neuroscience at Indiana University.
Xianghua Luo, PhD ’06
Xianghua Luo works as a statistical consultant for cancer-related projects and collaborate with researchers at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center.
Alyssa Frazee, PhD ’15
Alyssa Frazee shares her experience as a PhD student and her career working as a machine learning engineer.
Simina Boca PhD ’11
Simina Boca is an assistant professor (Research Track) at Georgetown University Medical Center in the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) and Departments of Oncology and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics.
Brian Egleston, PhD ’06
Brian Egleston is an associate research professor at the Fox Chase Cancer Center with Temple University Health System.
A dedicated biostatistics student, Huster also worked as a department teaching assistant, circa 1984.
Meet Gertrude Huster, MHS ’84
Gertrude Huster, MHS ’84, a trailblazing woman in STEM, endowed a scholarship in the Department of Biostatistics shortly before her passing in 2023. This act of generosity reflects Huster's commitment to fostering opportunities for future generations.