Thomas Cook passed his final qualifying exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations Thomas!

Patrick Flaherty was awarded tenure by the board of trustees of the University of Massachusetts. Thanks to everyone for all of your support and I’m looking forward to advancing the mission of the lab – to improve human health by developing mathematical and statistical methods for genomic data.

Shai He successfully defended his thesis titled, “Statistical Methods to Study Transposon Sequencing Data: Nonparametric Bayesian Models with Sampling Algorithms”. Thanks to Profs. Anna Liu, Leili Shahriyari, and Peter Chien for serving on his committee. Congratulations Dr. He!