Team Leader

Gabriela V. Cohen Freue (Associate Professor in Statistics). Main supervisor of Statistics students in the team, and academic advisor of students from collaborations. My research team merges knowledge from mathematical statistics, genomics and medical sciences.


Team Members

Arafeh Bigdel (Postdoctoral Fellow, in progress, co-supervised with Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen)

Nikolas Krstic (PhD. in Statistics, in progress)

Abhinav Checkervarty (PhD. in Experimental Medicine, in progress, co-supervised with Dr. Scott Tebbutt)

Trevor Kwan (MSc. in Statistics, in progress)

Chloe You (MSc. in Statistics, in progress)

Maggie Liu (MSc. in Statistics, in progress)

Jana Osea (MSc. in Statistics, in progress)

Nirupama Tamvada (MSc. in Statistics, in progress)

Giuseppe Tomio (MSc. in Statistics, in progress, co-supervisor with Dr. Keegan Korthauer)

Michael Yoon (MSc in Bioinformatics, in progress, co-supervisor with Dr. Christopher Carlsten)


Trainees from Collaborations

William Casazza (PhD in Bioinformatics, in progress, Supervisory Committee Member)

Daniel He (PhD in Experimental Medicine, in progress, Supervisory Committee Member)

Ryan Riley (MSc in Bioinformatics, in progress, Supervisory Committee Member)

Tiffany Leung (MSc in Bioinformatics, in progress, Supervisory Committee Member)


Alumni

Arjun Baghela (Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, 2022)

  • Co-upervisor with Dr. Bob Hancock
  • First position: research scientist at Merck

David Kepplinger (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: Assistant Professor, George Mason University, US.

Joe Watson (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020)

  • Research Assistant in my lab

Nikolas Krstic (M.Sc. in Statistics, 2019)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: research scientist

Ezequiel Smucler

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (2018)
  • First Position: Assistant Professor at Universidad DiTella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kevin Multani (Undergraduate student, USRA summer intership in 2017)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: graduate school in Stanford

Derek Cho (M.Sc. in Statistics, 2018)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: research scientist at Rakuten, Japan

Derek Chiu (M.Sc. in Biostatistics, 2016)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: research scientist at BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Chiara DiGravio (M.Sc. in Statistics, 2015)

  • Main supervisor
  • First position: research scientist in an interdisciplinary group at University of Southampton, UK

Derek Cho (Undergraduate USRA Summer Internship, 2014)

  • Supervisor
  • First position: M.Sc in Statistics, UBC (member of my research group)

Daniel Liu (Undergraduate USRA Summer Internship, 2013)

  • Supervisor
  • First position: M.Sc in Statistics program in Chicago, USA

Darlene LiYing (M.Sc. in Statistics, 2012)

  • Co-supervised with Prof. R. Ng from CS
  • First position: data analyst at GenomeDx Bioscience, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Research Assistant in my lab

Ash Anwar (Ph.D., Research Assistant)

In Supervisory Committee of:

Nathaniel Lim (Ph.D. in GSAT, 2021)

  • Supervisor Dr. Pavlidis from CHiBi

Eric Lee (MSc in Bioinformatics, 2021)

  • Supervisor Dr. Andrew Roth from CS and BCCA

Yee Fay (MSc in Bioinformatics, 2021)

  • Supervisor Dr. Inanc Birol from Medical Genetics

Yolanda Yang (M.Sc. in Experimenal Medicine, 2017)

  • Supervisor Prof. Tebbutt from iCAPTURE and PROOF Centre

Nikolaus Fortelny (Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 2016)

  • Supervisor: Profs. Pavlidis from CHiBi and Overall from Centre for Blood Research)
  • First position: research scientist at CeMM Research Institute, Austria

Hao Luo (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2016)

  • Supervisor Prof Gustafson from Statistics
  • First position: data analyst at Rubylife, Canada

Amrit Singh (Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine, 2016)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Tebbutt from iCAPTURE and PROOF Centre
  • First position: postdoctoral Fellow at PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Beryl Zhuang (M.Sc. in Bioniformatics, 2016)

  • Supervisor Prof. Pavlidis from CHiBi