Dong, Qianyu

Ph.D candidate
Statistical Science, UC Santa Cruz
qdong14 ‘at’ ucsc.edu

CV

I’m a foruth year Ph.D student in the Statistics department at UC Santa Cruz, advised by Dr. Zehang Richard Li. My current research interest falls in statistical modeling for improving public health. Specifically, I’m interested in Bayesian modeling, survey statistics, small area estimation. My current project involves cross-fitting model evaluation for prevalence estimation from complex survey.

I got my BS in Mathematics and Business Administration in 2019 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I received my MS in Mathematical Statistics in 2022 at Wake Forest University, advised by Dr. Staci Hepler.