Fall 2025 - First-Year Students

We are pleased to welcome the newest members of the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Graduate Program!

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New Student Social - 11th floor break room, August 15, 2025
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Guanru Chen

MS track

BS, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University

Research interests include: machine learning, causal inference

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Nuo "Amber" Hu

MS track

BS, Statistics, Rice University

Research experience includes: applied statistical learning, survival analysis

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Hannah Klinger

PhD track

BS and MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island

Previously: senior data analyst, Harvard Aging Brain Study

Research interests include: Alzheimer's disease, women's health, longitudinal methodology

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Sophia Kop

MS track

BA, Public Health (minor in Mathematics), University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Leslie Kim

MS track

BS, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Research interests include: environmental health, health outcomes

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Meredith Lomeli

MS track

BS, Biological Sciences (Biomedical Sciences), Arizona State University

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Yunyi Sun

PhD track

BS, Agronomy, Yichun University; MEd, Quantitative Methods, Vanderbilt University

Previously: staff biostatistician, Vanderbilt University Medical Center