2021
Weifeng Wang
MPLE: Maximum K-subtree Pseudo-likelihood Methods for Phylogeny Reconstruction
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Statistician at Walmart Labs
Ilsuk Kang
Statistical and Deep Learning for Data Objects with Non-Euclidean Metrics
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: PostDoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Hyunnam Ryu
Topological Data Analysis for Studying Brain Functional Connectivity
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Eunsil Seok
Learning Multimodal Data using Deep Neural Networks in Classification
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, NYU Langone Health
Wanxue Zou
Classification and Regression Tree for Symbolic Data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Regeneron
Kristen Knight
Multi-Modal Data Fusion of Neuroimaging Genetics for the Discovery of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Seung Woo Kwak
Differential privacy and its applications
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, NYU Langone Health
Ye Wang
Novel Statistical methods and applications in Quantum computing, Biomedicine, and Networks for Big Data
Advisor: Ping Ma
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, State Farm (ATL)
Honghe Jin
Copula Theory on the Histogram-valued Data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Wells Fargo
Ziyang Ma
New Regularization Methods for Supervised Learning with High-dimensional Data
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Wells Fargo
Jinyang Chen
Applications of Emerging Technologies to Statistical Learning
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Statistican, Dow Chemical
Juhyung Lee
Some Bayesian Contributions to Small Area Estimation
Advisor: Gauri Datta
Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
2020
Murilo Masaru Da Silva
Dimension Reduction in Time Series Under the Presence of Conditional Heteroscedasticity
Advisors: T.N. Sriram and Yuan Ke
Initial Job Placement: Data Specialist, Ton (Stone Co.), Brazil
Tawanda Benesi
Improved EM-type Algorithms for fitting marginal zero-inflated regression models to clustered data
Advisor: Daniel B. Hall
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Temple University
Cristian Caranica
Stochastic models for genetic networks
Advisor: Johnathan Arnold
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor Maine
Hee Cheol Chung
Some contributions to statistical inference on small sample size data: small area estimation and and high-dimension low-sample size data analysis.
Advisor: Gauri Datta
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Texas A&M
Cheng Meng
Data Reduction in Non-parametric Statistical Analysis and Optimal Transport Methods
Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, TsingHua University
JC Poythress
Regularization Techniques for Statistical Methods Utilizing Matrix/Tensor Decompositions
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
Ben Washington
An Adapted VAR-EM Imputation of Climate Data and Statistical Downscaling of Temperature, Precipitation, and Solar Radiation in Puerto Rico
Advisor: Lynne Seymour
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, EPA
Jingyi Zhang
Data Fusion for Heterogeneous Data and Its Applications
Advisor: Ping Ma
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Renmin University
2019
Xiaodong Jiang
Selected topics in network data analysis and phylogenetics
Advisors: Pengsheng Ji & Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Facebook
Arunava Samaddar
Statistical learning methods for group analysis in FMRI data
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, CoinTribe
Rui Xie
Sampling for streaming data
Advisors: T.N. Sriram & Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. of Central Florida
Jiankun Zhu
Divisive hierarchical clustering for interval-valued data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Eli Lilly
Xinlian Zhang
Subsampling and integrating modeling uncertainty in statistical analysis
Advisors: Wenxuan Zhong & Gauri Datta
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
2018
Yaotong Cai
Symbolic data analysis: statistical inference on interval-valued data regression
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Liberty Mutual
Chul Moon
Statistical inference and learning for topological data analysis
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist U.
Wenhao Pan
Model-based clustering with application of copulas for symbolic data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo
Yiwen Liu
Dimension reduction and multisource fusion for big data with applications in bioinformatics
Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, U. of Arizona
Xiaoxiao Sun
Nonparametric methods for big and complex datasets under a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework
Advisor: Ping Ma
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. of Arizona
Xin Xing
Statistical methods with applications in epigenomics, metagenomics and neuroimaging
Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Harvard U.
Wei Zhang
Optimal designs for the panel mixed logit model
Advisors: John Stufken & Mandal
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Sprint
2017
Mohamad Hasan
Optimal p-value weighting with independent information
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Johnson and Johnson
Adel Bedoui
Bayesian empirical likelihood for linear regression and penalized regression
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Liberty Mutual
Sha Cao
Towards understanding the interplay between cellular stresses and cancer development
Advisor: Xu
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Indiana U.
Stacy Cobb
Optimizing parameters for qtl mapping study designs using next generation sequencing data
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Alexei Ionan
Bayesian framework for developing and evaluating medical screening tests for early disease detection with applications in oncology
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Mathematical Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration
Alex Lyford
Investigating undergraduate student understanding of graphical displays of quantitative data through machine learning algorithms
Advisor: Jennifer Kaplan
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
2016
Hao Tong
Identifying and understanding repetitive patterns in prokaryotic DNA sequences
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Workday
Li-Yu Wang
Regularized aggregation approaches for complex data
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, State Farm
Xianyan Chen
Nonlinear constrained optimization in R and its application for sufficient dimension reduction and variable selection
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: SCC Associate Director, U. of Georgia
Jacob Martin
Topics in zero-inflated count regression: coefficients of determination and marginal models
Advisor: Dan Hall
Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, U. Vermont
Hejiao Hu
A waiting time approach for a disability model
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Vice President, CitiBank
Fei Liu
Cluster analysis for symbolic interval data using linear regression method
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Vice President, Bank of America
Debin Qiu
Grouped variable screening for ultrahigh dimensional data under linear model
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Risk Analyst, JPMorgan Chase
Zhen Yan
A Birth and Death Model for RNA-Seq Data Analysis
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Principal Analyst, Liberty Mutual
Yuanwen Wang
Sufficient dimension folding, variable selection, and its inference
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
Jing Zhao
A probabilistic model for gene family evolution
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Sanford Health
2015
Sangjin Kim
Prioritizing hypothesis tests for high throughput data with multiple testing methods
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Bioinformatician, University of Texas at El Paso
Shiyao Wang
Estimating equations for fitting linear regression models describing the impact of partially-observed time-varying predictors on patterns of weight change among participants seeking to lose weight using ecological momentary assessment data
Advisor: Rathbun
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Modeler, Citigroup
Yuan Zhuang
Time series clustering using copula-based higher order Markov process
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Modeler, Wells-Fargo
Adam Jaeger
Composite empirical likelihood: a derivation of multiple non-parametric likelihoods
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, SAMSI/Duke
Lina Liao
Developments of regularized approaches in non-standard paradigm
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells-Fargo
WenHui Sheng
Sufficient dimension reduction and variable selection via distance covariance
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia
Xijue Tan
Optimal designs for generalized linear models
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Senior Statistician, Capitol One
GuanNan Wang
High/ultra-high dimensional single-index models
Advisors: Wang & Jaxk Reeves
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary
Wenbo Wu
Stable and pseudo sufficient dimension reduction
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Oregon Bus.Sch
2014
Linwei Hu
Optimal design of experiments
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells-Fargo
Jin Tang
Generalized quasi-likelihood ratio test for semiparametric analysis of covariance models in longitudinal data
Advisor: Li
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Modeling Analyst, Pactera
Sandra Addo
TBA
Advisors: Jeongyoun Ahn & Dobbin
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Emory
Adrijo Chakraborty
Hierarchical Bayesian methods for survey sampling and other applications
Advisors: Gauri Datta & Abhyuday Mandal
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, NORC U. of Chicago
Yi Chen
Symbolic data regression and clustering methods
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Senior Consultant, Traveler's Insurance
Emmanuel Tuglo
Analysis of univariate and multivariate longitudinal data with censored and missing response with complex covariance structure
Advisor: Dan Hall
Initial Job Placement: Senior Statistician, State Farm
Haileab Hilafu
On dimension reduction and feature selection in high dimensions
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Tennessee
Yaser Samadi
Matrix time series analysis
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois U.
Nan Zhang
Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion in sufficient dimension reduction and feature screening
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Decision Analyst, JP Morgan Chase
2013
JinAe Lee
Functional magnetic resonance imaging data clustering
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Nat'l Medical Ctr
Jung Ae Lee
Sample integrity in high dimensional data
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Washington U.
Hsin-Ping Wu
Locally optimal designs for generalized linear models with a single-variable quadratic polynomial predictor
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, State Street Corp
Andrew Brown
Bayesian multiple testing under dependence with application to functional magnetic resonance imaging
Advisors: Gauri Datta & Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Clemson U.
XinYu Liu
Sample size determination in multi-class classification and prediction based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Advisor: T.N. Sriram
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Geneticist, Monsanto
Lin Sun
Bayesian factor analysis for fMRI data
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Becton Dickinson
Andrew Bartlett
Extreme value estimators for various non-negative time series with heavy-tail innovations
Advisor: McCormick
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois U.
Nat Kulvanich
Mixture Poisson point process: assessing heterogeneity in EMA analysis
Advisor: Rathbun
Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, Commerce and Accountancy Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
2012
Ashley Askew
Numerical optimization and Empty Set Problem in application of empirical likelihood methods
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, UGA Forestry
Kun Xu
TBA
Advisor: Ying Xu
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Baidu
YiJie Xue
Applications of empirical likelihood to nonresponse problem and changepoint detection
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Modeler, LexisNexis
Yuan Xue
Sufficient dimension folding theory and methods
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Int'l Bus & Econ, Beijing
