On July 27, 2026, Ph.D. student Xiaohui Yin successfully defended her thesis entitled “On Rare Event Modeling with Electronic Health Records.” The work was supported by multiple NIH grants on data-driven suicide prevention. Xiaohui has won multiple awards with her papers, including Student Paper Award from the Mental Health Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2024 and Student Poster Award from the 39th New England Statistics Symposium in 2026. Xiaohui was advised by Dr. Kun Chen, and his committee also included Dr. Robert Aseltine, Dr. Ming-Hui Chen, and Dr. Jun Yan. Thank you all for your support!

After graduation, Xiaohui will join Yale University as a postdoc. Congratulations, Dr. Yin!

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