Vanderbilt Biostatistics Graduate Program

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WSDS 2026

The 2026 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference features several department members and alumni on the program, including PhD students Ashley Mullan and Alexis Fleming Schwartz, research associate professor Laurie Samuels, and alumnae Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021) and Jamie Joseph (PhD 2024).

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August graduation: Lan Shi

Dr. Shi defended her dissertation in June and is now a statistician at Genentech.
Siyuan Ma receives NIH award for early-stage investigators

The $2.2 million award is for advancing statistical methods for next-generation microbiome data analytics.
Vanderbilt students and alumni at JSM2026

Our graduate program was well represented at the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, with students, faculty, staff, and alumni delivering talks ...
Zhuohui Liang is lead author of MeLD AI model to simulate people living with HIV

The June 22 Nature Communications paper was featured in Vanderbilt Health News on June 30, 2026, with professors Brad Malin and Bryan Shepherd as corr ...

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Graduate program students, faculty, and staff at the All-Department Retreat on November 15, 2024. Photo by Donn Jones/Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Graduate Program

WSDS 2026

Recent News

August graduation: Lan Shi

Siyuan Ma receives NIH award for early-stage investigators

Vanderbilt students and alumni at JSM2026

Zhuohui Liang is lead author of MeLD AI model to simulate people living with HIV