| Current graduate students/postdoc | Past graduate students |
| Student achievements | Past postdoc fellows |
Past master students
| Name | Year Graduated | Thesis/dissertation | Current positions |
| Chris Hayes | 2008 | Investigating single and multiple species fisheries management: stock status evaluation of hammerhead (Sphyrna spp.) sharks in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. | National Sea Grant College Program, NOAA |
| Qing He | 2010 | Investigating the performance of process-observation error estimator and robust estimators in surplus production model: a simulation study | first Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Emory University; then Data Scientist at Samsung SDS, AI R&D Lab |
| Yan Li | 2010 | Investigating ecosystem-level effects of gillnet and trap-net bycatch in Lake Erie: implications for commercial fisheries management | first Ph.D. student under my supervision, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech; then postdoc University of California, Davis; then postdoc University of Pennsylvania; now Stock Assessment Scientist, Division of Marine Fisheries, NC Department of Environmental Quality |
| Man Tang | 2012 | Bayesian population dynamics modeling to guide population restoration and recovery of endangered mussels in the Clinch and Powell rivers, Tennessee and Virginia | Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech |
| Joshua Hatch | 2012 | Ageing error of Atlantic weakfish and its influence in fisheries stock assessment through a simulation study | Research Biologist, Woods Hole, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA |
| Matt Vincent | 2013 | The estimability of natural mortality in the age-structured models: a simulation study | Ph.D. student, Michigan State University |
| Irene Ballesta | 2013 | Comparison of estimators for scalloped hammerhead shark stock assessment | Ph.D. student Researcher, ARAMACC, Royal Netherland Institute for Sea Research |
| Yafei Zhang | 2016 | Influence of nonstationary models on the management strategy evaluation — An example based on weakfish along western Atlantic Ocean | Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech |
| Allison White | 2017 | Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in life history and productivity trends of Atlantic Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) and implications to fisheries management | Ph.D. student, Florida International University |
Past PhD students
| Name | Year Graduated | Thesis/dissertation | Current positions |
| Robert Leaf | 2010 | The evolutionary effects of fishing and implications for stock management and rebuilding | first Postdoc, NOAA; now Assistant Professor, The University of South Mississippi |
| Hao Yu | 2010 | The spatial and temporal dynamics of Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries | first Postdoctoral scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Tusculum College |
| Yan Li | 2014 | Spatial dynamics modeling for data-poor species using examples of longline seabird bycatch and endangered white abalone | first postdoc University of California, Davis; University of Pennsylvania; now Stock Assessment Scientist, Division of Marine Fisheries, NC Department of Environmental Quality |
| Dan Hua, | 2015 | Assessment of the restoration of freshwater mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers in Virginia and Tennessee | Senior Scientist, Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency; Adjunct Faculty, Middle Tennessee University |
| Fan Zhang | 2015 | Ecological modeling in a non-stationary world: factors affecting recruitment of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Erie | first postdoc University of Guelph; now Assistant Research Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Baochao Liao | 2016 | Bayesian aspect in fish population dynamics | Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Shandong University, China |
| Qiuyun Ma | 2018 | Random Effects in Life History and Population Dynamics | Postdoc, Shanghai Ocean University, China |
| Min Li | 2019 | The role of space in the population ecology of migratory whitespotted conger (Conger myriaster) | Assistant Professor, School of Resources and Environment Engineering, LuDong University, China |
| Corbin Hilling | 2020 | Population Dynamics Modeling and Management Strategy Evaluation for an Invasive Catfish | Postdoc, The University of Toledo |
| Rujia Bi | 2020 | Bayesian hierarchical approaches to analyze fish spatiotemporal dynamics | Postdoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison |