What Our Students Are Saying...
Obehi Ikpea
Statistics and Data Science
Ms. Obehi Ikpea recently completed my Master of Science in Biostatistics (Methods and Applications) at the University of Washington in March 2025, with a focus on machine learning applications in healthcare. She previously graduated Cum Laude from UTSA in May 2023. She is currently a Research Assistant for capstone project with Snohomish County Health Department, developing R analytical frameworks for public health surveillance data and serves as a Volunteer Research Assistant at Seattle Children's Hospital, working on longitudinal analysis of neonatal transport outcomes. Currently seeking opportunities in machine learning applications for healthcare.
“The foundation I received in the Statistics and Data Science program at UTSA has been invaluable in my graduate studies and research work.”
Victor Feagins
Statistics and Data Science
Mr. Victor Feagins is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison with a focus in Quantitative Methods researching the intersection of experimental design and causality. He was an inaugural Alvarez Research Fellow at UTSA and graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2022 with a BS degree Statistics and Data Science. He is currently an Institute of Education Science Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) Fellow, which is a three-year fellowship designed to build translational skills and bridge sound social science with education policy and practice. Currently Victor is researching the design of experiments with non-pharmacological interventions to study how experiments can be designed to ensure casual claims and how variations in treatment impact statistical inference.
Joshua Lozaro
Statistics and Data Science
Mr. Joshua Lazaro is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, specializing in Bioinformatics. Joshua graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2023 with a BS in Statistics and Data Science. Upon graduation, Joshua was awarded a highly competitive NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship. At UTSA he received numerous accolades. After joining Stanford University, he won first place at the California Department of Public Health Forecasting Challenge for his West Nile virus forecast against more than twenty competitors. He spent the summer in Costa Rica, where he sampled mosquitoes and larvae to understand the dynamics of Dengue in agricultural sites within a mix of rural and urban areas. He gave his first presentation at the conference of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and still attends Rowdy Hacks (UTSA, ACM Hackathon).
Ethan Woods
Statistics and Data Science
Mr. Ethan Woods graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2023 with a BS in Statistics and Data Science. He entered the statistics PhD program at Rice University in Fall 2023 and passed the qualifying exam in Fall 2024. Ethan is working on two projects since Spring 2024: one involves integer regression, and the other is a collaborative project with Baylor College of Medicine, which involves exploration of risk factors for chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). In spring 2025, he was granted a fellowship through the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for biomedical data science.
Eileen Ramirez Del Rio
Statistics and Data Science
Ms. Eileen Ramirez Del Rio graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2023 with a BS in Statistics and Data Science. She was admitted to the Public Health graduate program at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Mailman Scholar Scholarship and graduated with a Master of Public Health in biostatistics and a certificate in population mental health. Towards the end of her first year, she started an internship at the University of Michigan, which turned into a part-time job for the rest of her academic career and a full-time job upon graduation. She now works as a research analyst in the epidemiology department of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
