MIND Lab

Lab Leaders

Tanya P. Garcia
Director
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
UNC-CH

Yanyuan Ma
Associate Director
Professor of Statistics
Penn State University

Karen Marder
Associate Director
Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology
Columbia University

Sarah C. Lotspeich
Associate Director
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Wake Forest University

Current Lab Members

Kyle Grosser
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2020-Present)

Jesus Vazquez
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2021-Present)

Abby Foes
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2023-Present)

Madhuri Raman
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2024-Present)

Dewei Lin
Biotatistics MS Student at UNC-CH
(2024-Present)

Sophia Chen Cross
Biostatistics and Mathematics Undergraduate at UNC-CH
(2024-Present)

Aditya Krishnan
Neuroscience Undergraduate at UNC-CH
(2024-Present)

Vraj Parikh
Health Policy and Management, Statistics, and Analytics Undergraduate at UNC-CH
(2024-Present)

Lab Alumni

Stellen Li
Biotatistics and Mathematics
Undergraduate at UNC-CH
(2024-2025)
Next position: Data Science MS Student at Harvard University

Yajie He
Biostatistics MS Student at UNC-CH
(2024-2025)
Next position: Biostatistics PhD Student at the University of Waterloo

Taryn Carter
Biology and Neuroscience Undergraduate at UNC-CH
(2024-2025)

Emmanuel Rockwell
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2023-2024)

Brian Richardson
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2022-2024)

Benjamin Bodek, M.S.
Biotatistics MS Student at UNC-CH
(2022-2024)

Marissa Ashner, Ph.D.
Biotatistics PhD Student at UNC-CH
(2020-2023)
Next position: Biostatistician III and Graduate Instructor at BERD, Duke University

Sarah Lotspeich, Ph.D.
T32 Postdoctoral Associate at UNC-CH
(2021-2022)
Next position: Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University

Rakheon Kim, Ph.D.
Statistics PhD Student at TAMU
Co-advised with M. Pourahmadi
(2018-2022)
Next position: Assistant Professor at Baylor University

Unkyung Lee, Ph.D.
T32 Postdoctoral Associate at TAMU
(2017-2020)
Next position: Researcher at Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Chen Lin, B.S.
Visiting Undergraduate Research Scholar (2019-2020)
Next position: Statistics PhD Student at Yale

Support Lab Members

Sylvain Marcel
Director's husband

Adeline and Sasha Marcel
Director's kids, July 2023

Adeline and Sasha Marcel
Director's kids, January 2021

Lab Adventures!

cox April 2025: Celebrating Team Papers at Lime and Lemon!

cox November 2024: Labsgiving 2024!

cox cox November 2024: Celebration at the UNC Biostatistics 75th Anniversary!

cox October 2024: Hiking adventures with the Penn State Crew!

cox May 2024: Tanya delivers her keynote talk at the 2024 Washington Statistical Society Gertrude M. Cox Lecture and Reception! Check it out on YouTube.

May 2024: What a joy to hood Dr. Marissa Ashner, Ph.D.! She'll always be a rising star, and the world will continue to see her amazing-ness!

May 2024: Loving the tag-team celebrations for MS graduates at UNC-CH and Wake Forest University! Big shoutout to Jesus Vazquez (UNC-CH), Ashley Mullan (Wake Forest; supervised by Sarah Lotspeich, Ph.D.), and Ben Bodek (UNC-CH) for crushing it and earning those MS degrees!

enar204 March 2024: Fun times in Baltimore, the Charm City, for ENAR 2024!