Research Assistants

I often have money to support motivated and hardworking students. In addition to a solid foundation in theory and methods, I expect strong coding skills.

Currently, I am supporting the following students at ISU through various sources of funding:

  • Srika Raja: Undergraduate RA, funded through Plant Science Institute Fellowship (REU '24 and continuing).
  • Aniruddha Pathak: Statistics PhD candidate, funded through NOAA and the Plant Science Institute.
  • Hongyuan Wang: Statistics PhD candidate, funded through Plant Science Institute Fellowship.
  • Debarshi Chakraborty: Statistics PhD candidate, funded through USDA-NIFA (jointly with Professor Vivekananda Roy).
  • Seho Kim: Statistics PhD student, funded through USDA-NIFA (jointly with Professor Vivekananda Roy).
  • Thiruni Withana: Statistics PhD student, funded through Plant Science Institute and USDA-NIFA (jointly with Professor Vivekananda Roy).

In the past, I supported the following research assistants:

  • An Nguyen: Statistics PhD candidate, funded through USDA-NIFA (jointly with Professor Vivekananda Roy).
  • Debosmita Kundu: Statistics PhD, funded through Plant Science Institute Fellowship.
  • Abby Bryan: Agronomy, funded through USDA-NIFA (jointly with Professors Pat Schnable and Vivekananda Roy).
  • Eva Biswas: Statistics, PhD, funded through Plant Science Institute. Eva took a post-doctoral position at Johns Hopkins University in 2024.
  • Subrata Pal: Statistics PhD, (jointly with Professor Ranjan Maitra, through a fund from NOAA).
  • Bufei Guo (through an internal fund from the VPR's office and Plant Science Institute).
  • Fan Dai: Funded by my startup fund. Fan is a tenure-track assistant professor at Michigan Technological University.