Postdocs

Hailin Sang

Hailin Sang is one of three postdoctoral fellows at NISS that is working with the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Sang is joining one of three teams at NISS that is collaborating with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).Sang's team is developing a new mathodology for estimating the number of farms in the U.S. using the June Area Survey conducted annually by NASS. Sang is focusing his efforts on obtaining precise estimates of the number of farms within each state that are consistent with the national estimate.

Sang received his M.S. in statistics and his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Connecticut.

Xia Wang

Xia Wang from the University of Connecticut is working on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTC).

Xia Wang from the University of Connecticut is working on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTC), a program run by the National Cancer Institute along with five major research centers across the United States.

Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins is one of three postdoctoral fellows at NISS who is working with the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Michael Robbins is working on one of three teams at NISS that is collaborating with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Robbins is working on “Multivariate Imputation Mechanisms and Valid Mean Squared Error Estimation” for implementation in Agricultural Resource Management Survey – Phase III. Robbins is spending two consecutive summers at the NISS headquarters in Research Triangle Park, and continuing his research during the rest of the year at NASS in Washington DC.

Jessie (Qing) Xia

Jessie (Qing) Xia, joined NISS in 2007. She is working on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer.

Jessie (Qing) Xia is one of NISS' more seasoned postdoctoral fellows. Jessie grew up in Nantong, also known as "The pearl of the Yangtze river." She got her Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and later worked for a company there. Then she decided to come to the United States to pursue her advanced degrees. She attended Duke University and received both her Master's degree in statistics and her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Duke. Jessie joined NISS in 2007.

Jianqiang (Jay) Wang

Jianqiang (Jay) Wang is on one of three teams at NISS that are collaborating with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

Jianqiang (Jay) Wang, from Iowa State University, is on one of three teams at NISS that are collaborating with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Together with Professor Balgobin Nandram of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Assistant Professor Scott Holan of the University of Missouri and graduate student Griselda Toto from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wang will address "Statistical Multi-Source Predictive Models and Error Estimates," for implementation in the Major USDA Crop Protection Forecasts and Estimates.

Jian (Frank) Zou

Jian (Frank) Zou is focusing on biosurveillance.

Jian (Frank) Zou is a postdoctoral fellow at NISS. He has a Ph.D. in Statistics, and a M.S. in Mathematics from University of Connecticut. He also obtained a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics.

Satkartar (Saki) Kinney

Saki has been a postdoctoral fellow at NISS since 2007.

Saki Kinney graduated from UC Berkeley in 1997 with a B.A. in Mathematics. She worked at Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA (not Livermore) for six years.

Saki received her M.S. in Statistics in 2002 from Cal State Hayward, now known as Cal State East Bay. She came to Duke University in 2003 to pursue her graduate program in Statistical Science. She graduated from Duke in December 2007.

Saki is working on educational surveys.

Xingdong Feng

Feng is focusing on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC), a program run by the National Cancer Institute.

Xingdong Feng received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2009 and began working at NISS June 1, 2009.

Feng is focusing on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC), a program run by the National Cancer Institute along with five major research centers across the United States.