Rui Nie

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan in Song Lab and a Graduate Student Research Assistant affiliated with the Diabetic Foot Consortium at the SABER Center. My main interest is longitudinal data analysis, wearable devices data, clinical risk prediction from biomarkers, and electronic health records. I'm also interested in exploring the large language model post-training and evaluation in the context of health and biomedical data.

I earned my M.S. in Biostatistics in 2026 and my B.S. in Honors Mathematics and Honors Statistics in 2023, when I wrote my undergraduate thesis on machine olfaction under Professor Ambuj Tewari.

Education

Publications

• Comments on “An Overview of Large Language Models for Statisticians”
  Jiuchen Zhang, Rui Nie, & Peter X.K. Song
  The American StatisticianAccepted
• Determinants of enrolment rate in 397 clinical trials for healing diabetic foot ulcers: a systematic review
  Leyao Zhang, Soumik Purkayastha, Hadar Lev-Tov, Rui Nie, Robert Kirsner, Cathie Spino, & Peter X.K. Song
  BMJ Open, 2025; 15(7): e095512.
  DOI →
• EEG-Based Evaluation of Aesthetic Experience Using BiLSTM Network
  Peishan Wang, Haibei Feng, Xiaobing Du, Rui Nie, Yudi Lin, Cuixia Ma, & Liang Zhang
  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2023.
  DOI →

• Exploring Machine Olfaction
  Rui Nie
  Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Statistics, 2024.
  Read the thesis →Featured in LSA Magazine →

Awards & Honors

• Ametris Digital Data Summit Travel Award
  2026
• Rackham Conference Travel GrantRackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
  2025 – 2026
• Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics AwardDepartment of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  2023
• Outstanding Undergraduate Major AwardDepartment of Statistics, University of Michigan
  2023
• Keeler Merit ScholarshipDepartment of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  2022

Leadership & Service

• AI, Computing, and Website CommitteeDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
  2026
• MSSISS CommitteeMichigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences
  2026
• STATCOM VolunteerSentiment analysis for an Oakland County nonprofit
  2024
• Curriculum CommitteeDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
  2023