Our Team

Postdoctoral Fellows | Research Topic

• Xitong Li | Bayesian spatial models for capture-recapture data

• Yuzi Zhang | Bayesian scaler-on-quantile function regression

Doctoral Trainees | Dissertation

• Jacob Englert | Bayesian Tree-Based Methods for Environmental Health Research

• Yuzi Zhang | Statistical Methods for Disease Surveillance Based on Multiple Data Streams

• Nancy Murray | Ambient Air Pollution Estimation Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models

• Caprichia Jeffers | Statistical Methods for Correlated Count Data

• Brooke Alhanti | Methods for Estimating the Effect of Air Pollution on Asthma under a Changing Climate

• Bruce Ling | Bayesian Spatial-temporal Models for Areal Count Data

Masters Trainees | Thesis/Capstone Project

• Chen Li | Temperature and Respiratory Emergency Department Visits: A Mediation Analysis with Ambient Ozone Exposure

• Lauren Vanasse | Spatial Associations between Measures of Public Transportation and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Outcomes in the State of Georgia – 2016-2019

• Megan Grieco | Evaluation of Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Environmental Mixtures Analyses using Weighted Quantile Sum regression and Quantile g-computation

• Xinyue Chen | Using Negative Exposures to Partially Control for Unmeasured Confounders in Time-Series Analysis of Air Pollution and Health

• Mingze Liu | Logic Regression for Estimating Heat Wave Health Effects

• Runing Huo | Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations

• Kexin Guan | Associations between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in thirteen U.S. cities

• Zhen Wu | The Short-term Effects of Diurnal Temperature Range and Temperature Variability on Respiratory and Circulatory Emergency Department Visits in Five US Cities

• Eric Chou | Modeling the effect of public transportation accessibility on diabetic health outcomes in Georgia

• Tingyu Wang | Time-series Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in Atlanta, Georgia from 2010 to 2015

• Sabah Munir | The Application of Spatial Regression Analysis in Examining the Relationship Between Drinking Water Contaminants and Cancer Incidence Rates in Iowa and Illinois

• Sodahm (Robin) Yoo | The effect of ambient air pollution on term birth weight and preterm birth in Kansas, 2005-2013

• Kristina Wielgosz| Association between walkability, greenness, and birth outcomes (preterm and birth weight) in Georgia

• Yue (Sally) Xue | Preterm birth, stillbirth and ambient air pollution in Georgia, 2005 to 2013

• Sarita Mohanty | Associating mobile personal P.M. 2.5 exposures and traffic-related, meteorology, and other variable in a panel of GT students

• Shan Jiang | Assessing the heat wave's effect on the emergency department visits

• Tianyu Zhang | An Application of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) to Estimate Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Components in California

• Nikita Thomas | Estimating associations between high temperature and emergency department visits in six US cities with the use of 1-kilometer temperature products

• Victoria Kennerley | Evaluating Statistical Approaches to Model Multi-Pollutant Mixtures on Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Health Along the Eastern Coast of Florida and South Carolina

• Benjamin Nealy | Impacts of gestational age uncertainty in estimating associations between preterm birth and ambient air pollution 

• Yuqi Sun | Development and Application of a Statistical Emulator for Estimating Personal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution

• Denis Whelan | An Additive Spatiotemporal Covariance Function Using Stream and River Distance

• Sarah Sullivan | Mixture Modeling to Determine Population-Specific Cutoffs for Quantitative Diagnostic Tests without Gold Standards

• Anqi Pan | Time series analysis of air pollution and health accounting for covariate-dependent overdispersion

• Gabriel Vece | Using Lagged Outpatient Visits to Improve Forecasts of Patient Arrivals at an Inpatient Hospital

• Tianqi Chen | Time-Series Analysis of Heat Waves and Emergency Department Visits in Atlanta, 1993 to 2012

• Ying Lin | Ambient Air Pollution and Birth Weight Quantiles in Atlanta

• Anran Liu | Study designs for estimating association between time-varying exposures during pregnancy and preterm birth: a simulation study

• Tong Wang | Effect modification by environmental quality index on the short-term association between PM 2.5 and mortality

• Marcy Schaeffer | Maternal nutrition and gastrointestinal atresia/stenosis: National Birth Defects Prevention Study 1997-2009

• Chenyin Lin | Time-series analyses of the association between mortality and ambient PM 2.5 concentration

• Qunna Li | Associations between Schistosomiasis Intermediate Host Snail's Recent Migration Rates and Geographical Distances in Sichuan, China

• Erin Hulland | Associations between race, socioeconomic status and non-fatalinjuries in Atlanta between 2001-2004

• Meilin (Miriam) Huang | Ambient PM2.5 exposure during pregnancy and the risk of preterm delivery in Georgia, 1999 to 2006

Research Rotation/Assistant | Research Project

• Shumeng Chen | Short-term health effects of air pollution and temperature on emergency department visits for neurological conditions

• Yimeng Zhu | Identifying at-risk subpopulatios for environmental exposures using latent class methods

• Sabrina Chow| Impact of temperature on emergency department visits for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in California

• Jiali Guo | Data harmonization for the precision CARRS cohort

• Weijia Qian | A comparison of quantile mapping bias-correction methods for bias-correcting climate model outputs

• Yixiang Hong | Differential health effects of ambient air pollution due to COVID-19 lockdown

• Jiahui Liu | Data fusion for US PM2.5 data using machine learning approaches.

• Yuzhou Pan | Estimating daily PM2.5 concentrations using Bayesian spatial-temporal models with INLA

• Zhihao Jin | Geocoding pipeline for electronic medical records from Emory Healthcare

• Weidong Wang | Ambient air pollution modeling with Bayesian space-time models

• Mingze Liu | Logic Regression for Estimating Heat Wave Health Effects

• Behzad Kianian | Imputing missing satellite data under informative sampling

• Zhuxuan Jin | Spatial anaysis of neighourhood drivers for alcohol demands