Mentoring and collaborators
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I view mentoring as the art of listening: through active sharing of ideas, concerns, and suggestions, both the mentee and the mentor can grow as scientists and as individuals.
Students
Over the years, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with these students, from whom I have learned a lot.
Catherine Xue — Ph.D. student at Harvard, now at Takeda.
Areas: Bayesian methods, cancer genomics, distribution theory.
See Xue, Zito & Miller, 2024. Recipient of the 2025 ASA SBSS Student Paper Competition Award
Johanna Orsholm — Ph.D. student in ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Areas: Machine learning, DNA classification methods, community ecology.
See Orsholm, Zito et al., 2026, Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Zihan Qian — biostatistician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Areas: Bayesian methods, cancer genomics, distribution theory, regression methods.
Ashini Modi — Incoming Master student at Cambridge University, UK.
Areas: Cancer genomics, statistical methods
See Modi, Zito & Parmigiani, 2026, BMC Cancer.
Advisors
- Jeffrey W. Miller, Harvard University. Postdoc advisor
- Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Postdoc advisor
- Mehmet K. Samur, Harvard University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Postdoc benefactor :)
- David B. Dunson, Duke University. Ph.D. advisor
- Tommaso Rigon, University of Milano-Bicocca. Ph.D. co-advisor
Address:
655 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Email:
azito@hsph.harvard.edu
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