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May graduations: Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, Haozheng Xu

Headshots of three Asian students against black bakground and gold congratulations message

We are excited to welcome Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, and Haozheng Xu to the ranks of Vanderbilt alumni with master's degrees in biostatistics, on Friday, May 8, 2026. We are proud of you and look forward to your future accomplishments! Theses will become available via Vanderbilt's Institutional Repository later this year.

Yiqing Pan

Thesis: Statistical and Deep Learning Methods for Missing Covariate Imputation with Applications to Alzheimer’s Disease Research 

Advisor: Panpan Zhang

Past: BA, statistics, Mount Holyoke

Future: PhD program in epidemiology and biostatistics, Indiana University

Xin Wu

Thesis: Co-enrollment in Clinical Trials: Validating Recommendations and Guidelines Using Simulations

Advisor: Bryan Blette

Past: BS, statistics, East China Normal University

Haozheng Xu

Thesis: A Comprehensive Simulation Study on Coverage Probabilities of Double Machine Learning: Analytical versus Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals

Advisor: Qingyan Xiang

Past: BS, mathematics and business analytics (data science concentration), William and Mary

Theses will become available via Vanderbilt's Institutional Repository later this year.