• Zongyue Teng (Co-advised with Dr. Dandan Liu), M.S. (expected 2026), Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Yiqing Pan, M.S. (expected 2026), Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Former Ph.D. Students (Collaborative Mentorship)

• Yelie Yuan (Advisor: Dr. Jun Yan), Ph.D. (2023), Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
  1. Yuan, Y., Yan, J. and Zhang, P. (2021). Assortativity measures for weighted and directed networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 9(2), cnab017. <DOI>
  2. Wang, T., Yan, J., Yuan, Y. and Zhang, P. (2022). Generating directed networks with predetermined assortativity measures. Statistics and Computing, 32(5), 91. <DOI> (Equal contribution)
  3. Yuan, Y., Wang, T., Yan, J. and Zhang, P. (2023). Generating general preferential attachment networks with R package wdnet. Journal of Data Science, 21(3), 538–556. <DOI>
  4. Yuan, Y., Yan, J. and Zhang, P (2024). A Strength and sparsity preserving algorithm for generating weighted, directed networks with predetermined assortativity. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 638, 129634. <DOI>
  5. Yuan, Y., Wang, T., Yan, J. and Zhang, P. (2024). wdnet: Weighted and Directed Network. R package version 1.2.3. <CRAN> (Honorable mention for the 2023 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award)
• Sydney Louit (Advisor: Dr. Jun Yan), Ph.D. (2025), Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
  1. Louit, S., Clark, E. A., Gelbard, A. H., Vivek, N., Yan, J. and Zhang, P. (2025). CALFSBM: A covariate-assisted latent factor stochastic block model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 667, 130536. <DOI> (Winner of the 2025 JSM student paper award from the ASA sections on SPES and Q&P)