Manisha Desai, Ph.D.

Mary Boulos, M.P.P. 

Derek Boothroyd, Ph.D. 

Senior Biostatistician

Derek joined the QSU in October 2014. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2001 where his doctoral research was applied to modeling progression of kidney function in diabetic nephropathy. 

Bren Botzheim, M.S.

Biostatistician

Bren completed their MS in Statistical Data Science at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Prior to working at the QSU, they collaborated with faculty at SFSU and UCSF to develop novel feature selection methods for high-dimensional immune repertoire data. Their programming expertise is in R and Python. 

Kristen Cunanan, Ph.D. 

Kristen joined the QSU in July 2018. Prior to QSU, she was a Research Scholar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Kristen received her PhD in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota in 2015.

Himani Darji, M.P.H.

Biostatistician

Himani has graduated from Loyola University Chicago with MPH degree. During medical school, she focused on healthcare data and research. Her previous experiences include working with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and, Baylor Scott and White Health. 

Wei Deng, M.A.

Biostatistician

Wei joined the QSU in January 2023 after completing his MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2022. Prior to joining the QSU, Wei worked in various data science roles primarily focused on civic engagement and voter participation.

Victoria Ding, M.S.

Vicki completed her M.S. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington, where she engaged in collaborative research pertaining to mental health and gerontology.

Ariadna Garcia, M.S.

Ariadna joined the QSU in January 2016. She completed her M.S. in Management Information Systems at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Anna Graber, Ph.D. 

Anna joined the QSU after working for three years at the Stanford Research Informatics Center, where she gained experience with extracting data from Clarity and the OMOP CDM, working with researchers throughout the Stanford SoM. 

Bo Gu, M.S. 

Bo graduated from New York University with a master’s degree of Biostatistics. At NYU, Bo worked as a volunteer researcher at the department of Population Health, NYU Grossman school of Medicine. Bo joined QSU in June 2022. 

Fatma Gunturkun, Ph.D.

Senior Biostatistician

Fatma joined the QSU in December of 2022. Prior to QSU, she was a senior biomedical analyst at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Center for Biomedical Informatics. She got her PhD in statistics from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey in 2019.

Haley Hedlin, Ph.D.

Haley joined the QSU in 2013 after completing a postdoctoral position with the Five Colleges Consortium. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins in 2011.

Alexandria Jensen, Ph.D. 

Senior Biostatistician

Alex joined the QSU in October 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus. Her graduate work focused on applications of graph theory and kernel machine methods to neuroimaging data.

Kristopher Kapphahn, M.S.

Kris joined the QSU in May 2012 after completing his M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota. In his graduate work, he studied the handling of missing data for social networking data through multiple imputation techniques.

Yann Le Guen, Ph.D.

Justin Lee, M.P.H.

Jane Liang, Ph.D.

Jane joined the QSU in June 2022 after completing her PhD in biostatistics at Harvard University. Her dissertation focused on statistical methodology and software development for clinical risk assessment in panel gene testing. Prior to grad school, she worked as a scientific programmer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics

Yuhan Liu, M.S.

Yuhan joined the QSU in March 2021. She got her master’s degree in Biostatistics from Duke University. After that and prior to QSU, she worked as a biostatistician at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she worked on ophthalmology and pediatrics projects.

Di Lu, M.S.

Di joined the QSU in February 2020. She completed her Master in Biostatistics at Duke University. 

Rong Lu, Ph.D.

Rong joined the QSU in 2020. Prior to QSU, she was a senior biostatistical consultant at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). She received her PhD in Biostatistics from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2016.

Ingrid Luo, M.S.

Biostatistician

Ingrid joined the QSU in April 2023. She completed her M.S. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington.  

Kate Miller, Ph.D.

FeiFei Qin, M.P.H.

Victor Ritter, Ph.D.

Victor joined the QSU in February 2022. He got his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August of 2021 and is interested in statistical methods for non and semiparametric inference for time-to-event data with a focus on competing risks, cure rate, and multistate models.

Nidia Rodriguez-Ormaza, MD, PhD, MPH

Senior Biostatistician

Nidia is a physician, epidemiologist, and public health advocate. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022 and joined QSU in 2023. Nidia has comprehensive experience in various healthcare systems and academic settings, including clinical practice in primary care and rural health, teaching, and collaborative research with a public health focus. 

Keejeong Ryu, M.S.  

Keejoeng joined QSU in October 2023 after completing her M.S. in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, and she also had a PharmD from South Korea.  

Blake Shaw, M.S.

Blake joined the QSU in August 2022. He completed his MS in Biostatistics at UC Davis. 

Sa Shen, Ph.D.

Sa received her Ph.D in statistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She has more than 20 years’ collaborating experience in working with researchers, scientists, physicians and clinicians on grant proposals and funded projects. Prior to Stanford, she was a senior biostatistician at the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Megha Tandel, M.P.H.

Yingjie (Isabel) Weng, M.H.S.

Isabel joined the QSU in October 2017. She completed her M.H.S in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014.

Amy Zhang, M.P.H.

Amy joined the QSU in April 2022. She completed her MPH in Global Epidemiology at Emory University. Prior to the QSU, Amy was an ORISE Fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Preventioin, supporting spina bifida research in the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders.

Kenny Zhang, M.S. 

Biostatistician

Kenny Zhang joined the QSU in November 2020. He graduated from Duke University with a master’s degree in Biostatistics.  

Nazeea Akhter, M.P.A.

Ms. Nazeea Akhter joined Stanford in 2022 to lead program planning and operations and ultimately, achieve goals that the QSU has for the team. Nazeea brings many years of management and leadership experience from her prior roles in large hospital systems. She holds a Master of Public Administration from New York University, where she specialized in health policy and management.

Ni Deng, M.S.

Ni joined QSU in 2019. Prior to QSU, she worked at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research located in Cambridge, MA.

Cyra Ente

Cyra joined QSU in April 2022. She completed her bachelor’s in public health at the University of North Florida in 2021.

James Miller, M.B.A.

Jim came to Stanford in 2015, and spent four years as an award manager with the Department of Pathology before joining QSU in February 2021.  Prior to Stanford, he spent much of his career in corporate finance and corporate treasury.  Jim holds a BA and MBA from Northwestern University and The University of Chicago, respectively.