Students

Current Ph.D. Students

  1. Qingkai Dong, Ph.D. expected 2027 (joint with HaiYing Wang)
  2. Shiying Xiao, Ph.D. expected 2027
  3. Zefang Min, Ph.D. expected 2026 (joint with Kun Chen)
  4. Xiaomin Lu, Ph.D. expected 2025
  5. Sydney Louit, Ph.D. expected 2025
  6. Zhenyu Xu, Ph.D. expected 2025

Ph.D. Alumni

  1. Jun Jin,Ph.D. 2024 (joint with Kun Chen): On large-scale transfer learning with heterogeneous data. Placement: Faculty Biostatistician, Henry Ford Health.
  2. Surya Eada, Ph.D.2024 (joint with Vladimir Pozdnyakov): L ́evy Processes Governed by Telegraph Signal Process: Inferences and Applications. Placement: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Oregon State University.
  3. Yingfa Xie, Ph.D.2024: Recurrent events modeling based on a reflected Brownian motion with application to hypoglycemia. Placement: Postdoc researcher, Yale University.
  4. Lucas Godoy, Ph.D.2024: Hausdorff–-Gaussian Process with Spatial and Spatiotemporal Applications. Placement: Postdoc researcher, University of California Santa Cruz.
  5. Yelie Yuan, Ph.D. 2023: On assortativity of weighted directed networks. Placement: Consumer and Community Banking Risk Program Associate, JP Morgan.
  6. Zehan Yang, Ph.D. 2023 (joint with HaiYing Wang): Optimal subsampling methods for massive survival data using accelerated failure time models. Placement: Mathematical Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration.
  7. Jackson Lautier, Ph.D. 2023 (joint with Vladimir Pozdnyakov): Essays on discrete-time survival analysis with applications to securitization and consumer finance. Placement: Assistant Professor, Bentley University.
  8. Sai Ma, Ph.D. 2022: Optimal fingerprinting with estimating equations. Placement: Statistician, Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
  9. Abby Lau, Ph.D. 2022: Extreme value modeling with errors-in-variables in detection and attribution of changes in climate extremes. Placement: Postdoc researcher, University of Pennsylvania.
  10. Yan Li, Ph.D. 2021 (joint with Kun Chen): Amalgamation-based statistical learning for compositional data. Placement: Postdoc researcher, University of Michigan.
  11. Jieying Jiao, Ph.D. 2020: On Bayesian methods for spatial point processes. Placement: Senior Consultant, Travelers Insurance.
  12. Chaoran Hu, Ph.D. 2020 (joint with Vladimir Pozdnyakov): On Brownian motion governed by telegraph process. Placement: Research Scientist, Ely Lilly and Company.
  13. Wenjie Wang, Ph.D. 2019 (joint with Kun Chen): Integrated survival analysis with application to suicide risk. Placement: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company.
  14. Yishu Xue, Ph.D. 2019 (joint with Elizabeth Schifano): Diagnostic methods for big survival data. Placement: Senior Consultant, Travelers Insurance.
  15. Greg Vaughan, Ph.D. 2017 (joint with Kun Chen): Stagewise generalized estimating equations. Placement: Assistant Professor, Bentley University.
  16. Yujing Jiang, Ph.D. 2017: Marginal score equations for spatial extremes with latent signals and applications to fingerprinting changes in climate extremes. Placement: Postdoc researcher, Colorado State University.
  17. Brian Bader, Ph.D. 2016: Automated, efficient, and practical extreme value analysis with environmental applications. Placement: Statistician, KPMG.
  18. Chun Wang, Ph.D. 2016 (joint with Elizabeth Schifano): Online updating methods for big data streams. Placement: Senior Analyst, Liberty Mutual Insurance.
  19. Zhuo Wang, Ph.D. 2015: Estimating equations for spatial extremes with application to detection and attribution analysis of changes in climate extremes. Placement: Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, China.
  20. Hongwei Shang: Ph.D. 2013: A Two-step estimation procedure and a goodness-of-fit test for spatial extremes models. Placement: Statistician, HP Analytic Lab.
  21. Sy Han (Steven) Chiou, Ph.D. 2013 (joint with Sangwook Kang): Statistical Methods and Computing for Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Model with Induced Smoothing. Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota Duluth.
  22. Xiaojing Wang: Ph.D. 2011: Statistical inferences for interval censored data. Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Google New York.
  23. Marcos Prates, Ph.D. 2011 (joint with Dipak Dey): Link specification and spatial dependence for generalized linear mixed models. Placement: Assistant Professor, Departamento de Estat ́ıstica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.