Graduate Student Appreciation Week
We appreciate all graduate students at CSTAT! Graduate students explaining their research projects to us and who are trying to figure out best statistical approaches as well as the CSTAT RAs who are excellent collaborators and consultants.
Bronson Hui
Bronson joined CSTAT as a research assistant in May 2020. Despite the difficulties associated with joining our team during the pandemic, he has adapted well to the unusual circumstances and done good work with our clients. He took on some challenging and complex projects that stretched his skills, taught a couple seminars for CSTAT, and leveraged both his statistical skills and his substantive knowledge about linguistics research while working with our clients and research partners. We appreciate his patient, thoughtful approach to statistical work, eagerness to learn, and interest in advocating for rigorous, reproducible methods.
Sanket Jantre
Sanket provides thorough and thoughtful advice on statistical methods for research projects at CSTAT. He is also a member for the student organization Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) that provides pro bono statistical consulting to local nonprofit, governmental, and community service organizations and was a team leader for a project in 2020 working on an interactive online tool designed for analyzing water pollution samples. Sanket was selected for a competitive internship position with the National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship program for summer 2021 to explore probabilistic deep learning methods at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Congratulations!
Nicole Jess
Nicole has been an excellent research assistant at CSTAT for several years. She brings a wide range of statistical knowledge and skills to the job and her work has earned praise from more than one client. We give her a variety of projects involving measurement/psychometrics, survey data analysis, structural equation modeling, and more with full confidence that she will find good solutions to the statistical problems faced by our clients and research partners. We appreciate the valuable analytic support she has provided to a CSTAT sponsor by working on evaluations of the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s academic programs.
Sichao Wang
Sichao is very engaged in helping MSU graduate students and scholars in their research at CSTAT. She is president of the student organization Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) that provides pro bono statistical consulting to local nonprofit, governmental, and community service organizations. Sichao has a wide range of interest in statistical topics and takes every opportunity to learn new skills through seminars and workshops.