*Data prior to 3/2022 is partially missing at random.

  • 4/2024: Zejian Liu successfully defended his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Liu!
  • 2/2024: Congrats to Zejian Liu on winning a 2024 Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) Graduate Student Travel Grant! This grant will help support Zejian’s attendance at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland to present his paper titled “Optimal Plug-In Gaussian Processes for Modeling Derivatives”.
  • 2/2024: Congrats to Shengbin Ye on winning a 2024 Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) Graduate Student Travel Grant! This grant will help support Shengbin’s attendance at the 2024 ISBA World Meeting in Venice, Italy, to present his work titled “Iterative BART: Operator-Induced Structural Variable Selection for Identifying Materials Genes”.
  • 1/2024: Congratulations to Shengbin Ye on winning the 2024 ASA SPES + Q&P (Physical and Engineering Sciences, and Quality and Productivity Sections) Student Paper Competition Award! His paper is titled “Operator-induced structural variable selection for identifying materials genes”. You can read the paper on JASA’s website or arXiv. [Rice news]
  • 1/2024: Congratulations to Zejian Liu on winning the 2024 ASA-SBSS (Section on Bayesian Statistical Science) Student Paper Competition Award! His paper is titled “Optimal plug-in Gaussian processes for modeling derivatives”. You can read the arXiv version at https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11626. [Rice news]
  • 1/2024: Paper “Semiparametric Bayesian inference for local extrema of functions in the presence of noise” is accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association!
  • 12/2023: Paper “Operator-induced structural variable selection for identifying materials genes” is accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Congrats, Shengbin (first author & current PhD student)!
  • 7/2023: Paper “On the Estimation of Derivatives Using Plug-in Kernel Ridge Regression Estimators” is accepted by the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Congrats, Zejian (first author & current PhD student)!
  • 7/2023: Meng is awarded a grant from IITK – Rice University Strategic Collaboration program to study climate change impacts on marine ecosystems, jointly with Arnab Hazra. Rice news
  • 5/2023: Paper “PPA: Principal Parcellation Analysis for Brain Connectomes and Multiple Traits” is accepted by NeuroImage. Joint work with Rongjie Liu (former PhD student) and David Dunson.
  • 4/2023: Zijian Zeng successfully defended his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Zeng!
  • 3/2023: Congrats to Xin Tan on winning a 2023 Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) Graduate Student Travel Grant! This grant will provide support for Xin to attend 2023 JSM & present his work on “Bayesian structural determination by cryo-electron microscopy”.
  • 1/2023: Congrats to Zijian Zeng on winning the 2023 James Thompson Student Award! Rice news.
  • 1/2023: Congratulations to Xin Tan on his student paper award from ASA—runner-up for the Statistics in Imaging Section student paper competition! Xin’s paper is titled “Bayesian structural determination by cryo-electron microscopy”. Rice news
  • 9/2022: Paper “Double spike Dirichlet priors for structured weighting” is accepted by the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Congrats to Huiming!
  • 9/2022: Paper “Machine Learning for Dynamic and Early Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery” is accepted by The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Congrats to Chris and Zijian on publishing this work to improve early detection in ICU settings! Joint work with Dr. Ravi Ghanta and other BCM colleagues.
  • 9/2022: Meng is awarded a grant from the Rice University and Houston Methodist 2022 Seed Grant Program in Cardiovascular Bioengineering, jointly with Ashrith Guha. Proposal title: “Identifying Novel Parameter in Echocardiography to Assess Right Ventricular Function Using Machine Learning”.
  • 8/2022: Huiming Lin successfully defended her thesis. Congrats, Dr. Lin!
  • 6/2022: Meng is awarded a grant from NSF/NIGMS, jointly with Huw Ogilvie and Luay Nakhleh. Proposal title: “DMS/NIGMS 2: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Applications to Phylogenetics”. Rice News
  • Meng is awarded a grant from the Rice University and Houston Methodist 2022 Seed Grant Program, jointly with Andrada Guta, Dipan Shah, and David Collins. Proposal title: “Machine-learning analysis of right ventricular shape for characterization of patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation”. (06/2022)
  • Congratulations to Shengbin Ye on his IBB travel award (top prize)! (05/2022)
  • Congratulations to Zijian Zeng on his student paper competition award—Zijian’s Bayesian image-on-scalar regression work is selected as one of the runner-up papers for the Statistics in Imaging (SMI) Conference 2022 student paper competition! (04/2022)
  • Meng is awarded a grant from the Rice University Faculty Initiative Fund. Proposal title: “Personalized Medicine via IAS: A new Integrative, Adaptive, and Sustainable scoring system to harness patient heterogeneity”. (03/2022)
  • Meng is awarded a grant from the Rice University Faculty Initiative Fund jointly with Lydia Beaudrot (lead PI) and Amy Dunham. Proposal title: “Identifying the environmental drivers of tropical wildlife diversity”. (03/2022)
  • Meng joins the Scientific Oversight Committee of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Registry. (01/2022)
  • Huiming Lin wins the 2021 James Thompson Student Award. Congrats Huiming! Rice news. (01/2022)
  • Zijian Zeng wins the 2022 ASA-MHSS (Mental Health Statistics Section) Student Paper Competition Award. Congrats, Zijian! Rice news. (01/2022)
  • Huiming Lin wins the 2022 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award. Congrats, Huiming! Rice news. (12/2021)
  • Xin Tan wins the Ken Kennedy Institute 2021-2022 Energy HPC Conference Graduate Fellowship. Congrats, Xin! Rice news. (12/2021)
  • Zhengjia Wang successfully defended his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Wang! (6/2021)
  • Collaborative proposal awarded Rice-BCM seed grant. Joint work with Dr. Gabriel Loor. Rice news. (5/2021)