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Department of Statistics
Alumni Members
Alumni Members
2020s
- Amal Agarwal, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Network Modeling and its applications in Complex Large-Scale Systems
Advisor: Lingzhou Xue
First Job: Data Scientist, eBay
- Jordan Awan, PhD
Thesis Title: Optimizing Finite Sample Performance of Differential Privacy
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic and Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- Kyongwon Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: On Application of Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
- Seiyon (Ben) Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Computational Methods for Hierarchical Spatial Models and Ice Sheet Model Calibration
Advisor: Murali Haran
First Job: Assistant Professor, George Mason University
- Mengyan Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Inference with Corrupted Data
Advisor: Yanyuan Ma and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
- Mauricio Nascimento, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Spatial and Multivariate Spatial Extreme Values
Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
First Job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
- Jacob Parsons, PhD
Thesis Title: The Integration and Evaluation of Multiple Data Sources
Advisor: Le Bao and Xiaoyue Niu
First Job: Research Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline
- Jiawei Wen, PhD
Thesis Title: Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-Dimensional Sparse Estimation
Advisor: Runze Li and Xingyuan Fang
First Job: Research Scientist, Facebook
- Likun Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: Hierarchical Scale Mixtures for Flexible Spatial Modeling
Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2010s
- Gregory Bopp, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values with Applications in Climatology
Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
First Job: Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Elena Hadjicosta, PhD
Thesis Title: Integral Transform Methods in Goodness-of-Fit Testing
Advisor: Donald Richards
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London
- Changcheng Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference
Advisor: Runze LI
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State
- Wanjun Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Data Scientist, LinkedIn
- Ardalan Mirshani, PhD
Thesis Title: Regularization Methods In Functional Data Analysis
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Principle Scientific Computing Consultant, Novartis
- Debmalya Nandy, PhD
Thesis Title: Covariate Information: A Novel Approach To Sufficient Dimension Reduction & Feature Screening For Ultrahigh-dimensional Covariates In Supervised Problems
Advisor: Francesca Chiaromonte and Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Jaewoo Park, PhD
Thesis Title: Computational Methods For Models With Intractable Normalizing Functions
Advisor: Murali Haran
First Job: Assistant Professor, Yonsei University
- Jiayu Peng, PhD
Thesis Title: New Developments in Design of Experiments
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Google Inc.
- Kevin Quinlan, PhD
Thesis Title: Advances in Design of Computer Experiments
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Frank Shen, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis Of Chromosome Conformation Data And Other Omic Data
Advisor: Qunhua Li and Naomi Altman
First Job: Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Ching-Chi Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
- Cheng You, PhD
Thesis Title: Air Quality and Health Effects: Systematic Investigation
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Wells Fargo Bank
- Ling Zhao, PhD
Thesis Title: Procedures for Feature Screening and Interaction Identification in High-dimensional Data Modelling
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Data Scientist, Wells Fargo Bank
- Ge Zhao, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Dimension Reduction Model And Applications
Advisor: Yanyuan Ma
First Job: Assistant Professor, Portland State University
- Hyun Bin Kang, PhD
Thesis Title: Functional Manifold Data Analysis
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
- Bomin Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: Latent Modeling of Dynamic Social Networks
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp-Freddie Mac
- Justin Petrovich, PhD
Thesis Title: Functional Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Functional Regression
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Assistant Professor, Saint Vincent College
- Joshua Snoke, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Data Privacy Methods For Increasing Research Opportunities
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
First Job: Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation
- Chun-Sheng Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Estimation And Inference For Conditional Value-at-risk And Expected Shortfall
Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
First Job: Monsanto
- Songshan Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: New Statistical Analytic Tools For High Dimensional Data
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Blueshirt Asset Management LLC
- Hyunphil Choi, PhD
Thesis Title: Confidence Regions and Bands : for Functional Parameters and Hypothesis Testing Inversion
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Senior Manager, Financial Supervisory Service
- Panayiotis Constantinou, PhD
Thesis Title: Testing Separability Of Functional Data
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
- Yawen Guan, PhD
Thesis Title: Reduced-dimensional Non-Gaussian Spatial Models and Statistical Methods for Studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Advisor: Murali Haran
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska
- Kevin Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems
Advisor: Lingzhou Xue
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Western Michigan University
- Junli Lin, PhD
Thesis Title: Copula Versions of RKHS-Based and Distance-Based Criteria
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Penn State University
- Jun Song, PhD
Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction For Functional Data
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte
- Eftychia Solea, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Graphical Models For Functional Data
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: University of Cyprus
- Jingyi Ye, PhD
Thesis Title: New Statistical Procedures for Analysis of HIV Data and High Dimensional Data
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Plymouth Rock Assurance
- Jason Bernstein, PhD
Thesis Title: Inference of Biophysical Diffusion With Transient Binding Using Particle Filters and Stochastic Em
Advisor: John Fricks
First Job: Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- Eliana Christour, PhD
Thesis Title: A Non-iterative Method for Fitting the Single Index Quantile Regression Model with Uncensored and Censored Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, UNC Charlotte
- Wanghuan Chu, PhD
Thesis Title: Feature Screening For Ultra-high Dimensional Longitudinal Data
Advisor: Runze Li and Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
- Han Hao, PhD
Thesis Title: Modeling The Genetic Architecture Of Complex Traits
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of North Texas
- James Russell, PhD
Thesis Title: Stochastic Models for Individual and Collective Animal Movement
Advisor: Ephraim Hanks and Murali Haran
First Job: Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College
- Bahaeddine Taoufik, PhD
Thesis Title: Functional Data Based Inference For High Frequency Financial Data
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
First Job: Lecturer, Fordham University
- Armine Bagyan, PhD
Thesis Title: Central Limit Theorems for Randomly Modulated Sequences of Random Vectors with Resampling and Applications to Statistics
Advisor: Arkady Tempelman and Bing Li
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
- Youngjoo Cho, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Joshua Goldstein, PhD
Thesis Title: Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases
Advisor: Murali Haran
First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Social & Decision Analytics Laboratory, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech
Current job: Research Assistant Professor, Social & Decision Analytics Laboratory, University of Virginia
- Yuan Huang, PhD
Thesis Title: Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
- Yang Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics
Advisor: Francesca Chiaromonte
First Job: Quantitative Associate, Bank of America
- Sae Na Park, PhD
Thesis Title: Classification of Transients by Distance Measures
Advisor: Jogesh Babu
First Job: Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Electronics
- Weijie Shen, PhD
Thesis Title: Dimensional Analysis in Statistics: Theories, Methodologies and Applications
Advisor: Dennis Lin
First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
Current Position: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
- Won Chul Song, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Independence Screening And Test-based Screening Via The Variance Of The Regression Function
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Purdue University
- Wei Sun, PhD
Thesis Title: Feature Screening in Ultra-high Dimensional Survival Data Analysis
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Data Scientist Associate, J.P. Morgan
Current Position: Quantitative Research Vice President, J.P. Morgan
- Jessica Trail, PhD
Thesis Title: Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications
Advisor: Linda Collins and Runze Li
First Job: Statistician, Argonne National Lab
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Chamberlain Group
- Yaqun Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Rutgers University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Rutgers University
- Ningtao Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: A Block Mixture Model To Map Eqtls For Gene Clustering
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas
- Zhuying Xu, PhD
Thesis Title: Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates
Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
First Job: Statistician, KPMG
Current Position: Product Scientist, Indeed.com
- Xiang Zhan, PhD
Thesis Title: Kernel Machine Methods With Applications to High-throughout Data
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Rashmi Bomiriya, PhD
Thesis Title: Topics in Exponential Random Graph Modeling
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: Senior Data Scientist, Remote Sensing Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.
Current Position: Chief Operating Officer, Remote Sensing Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.
- Xizhen Cai, PhD
Thesis Title: Model Selection And Survival Analysis With Application To Large Time-varying Networks
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Williams College
- Won Chang, PhD
Thesis Title: Climate Model Calibration Using High-Dimensional and Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Adviser: Murali Haran
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
- Zhe Chen, PhD
Thesis Title: Hierarchical Bayesian Model Development With Applications In Marketing
Advisor: Duncan Fong
First Job: Statistician, Google Inc.
Current Position: Statistician, Google Inc.
- Wen-Yu Hua, PhD
Thesis Title: Kernel Methods for Neuroimaging Genomewide Association Studies
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, New York University, School of Medicine
Current Position: Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon
- Kwame Kankam, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Parameter Design: A Penalized Likelihood Approach
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Lecturer, Penn State University
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
- Vishesh Karwa, PhD
Thesis Title: Likelihood based inference in data privacy and other discrete missing data problems
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
First Job: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University
- Prabhani Kuruppumullage Don, PhD
Thesis Title: Estimation and Model Selection for Block Clustering with Mixtures: A Composite Likelihood Approach
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Francesca Chiaromonte
First Job: Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University
- Yihan Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Methods in Multiple Testing and Meta-analysis with Applications to the Analysis of Genomic Data
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
Current Position: Senior manager, AbbVie Inc.
- Xiaoyu Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data: New Models, Computing Techniques and Applications
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Senior Statistician, Capital One
Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo
- Wei Luo, PhD
Thesis Title: Efficient Estimation And Order Determination For Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, City University of New York, Baruch College
- Daisy Philtron, PhD
Thesis Title: Three Novel Procedures To Control The False Discovery Rate
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University
- Haskell Sie, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Aspects Of Computerized Adaptive Testing
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Principal Statistician, Capital One
- Lucia Tabacu, PhD
Thesis Title: Logarithmic Quantile Estimation and Its Applications to Nonparametric Factorial Designs
Advisor: Michael Akritas and Manfred Denker
First Job: Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
- Hanyu Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Scalar Response with Longitudinal Covariates
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo Bank
Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo Bank
- Xiaotian Zhu, PhD
Thesis Title: Non-Parametric Finite Multivariate Mixture Models with Applications
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Coursera
- Seonjin Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: Three Essays On Nonparametric Inference For Longitudinal Data And Time Series Data
Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
First Job: Assistant Professor, Miami University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Miami University
- Xiaoye Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Non-stationary Time Series
Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
First Job: Statistician, Union Bank
- Jingyuan Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Different Ultrahigh Dimensional Models
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
Current Position: Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China
- Lejia Lou, PhD
Thesis Title: Thresholded Partial Correlation Approach For Variable Selection In Linear Models And Partially Linear Models
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America
Current Position: Manager, EY
- Marcus Nunes, PhD
Thesis Title: Analysis of RNA-Seq Data with Excess of Zeros
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Assistant Professor, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Current Position: Assistant professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Wei Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Performance Criteria For Control Charts
Advisor: Dennis Lin
First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Fifth Third Bank
Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, VP, Wells Fargo
- Yong Ming Jeffery Woo, PhD
Thesis Title: Optimization and Statistical Estimation for the Post Randomization Method
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic and Donald Richards
First Job: Lecturer, University of Virginia
Current Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
- Ying Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
Current Position: Senior Manager, AbbVie Inc.
- Yeying Zhu, PhD
Thesis Title: Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
- Pannapa Changpetch, PhD
Thesis Title: Model Selection for Logistic Regression via Association Rules Analysis
Advisor: Dennis Lin
First Job: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
- Guifang Fu, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Mapping Genes that Contribute to Shape Variation
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Utah State University
- Roman Jandarov, PhD
Thesis Title: Inference With Implicit Likelihoods For Infectious Disease Models
Advisor: Murali Haran
First Job: Postdoctoral Senior Fellow, University of Washington
Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati
- Esra Kurum, PhD
Thesis Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Binary and Continuous Responses: New Models, Statistical Procedures and Applications
Advisor: Damla Senturk and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University
Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California at Riverside
- Kuang-Yao Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: A General Theory For Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction: Formulation And Estimation
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, School of Medicine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Temple University
- Ivan Simeonov, PhD
Thesis Title: Spatial Point Process Modeling of Viral Infections in Cell Cultures
Advisor: John Fricks
First Job: Senior Consultant, Travelers
Current Position: Senior Director, Travelers
- Duy Vu, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Models and Algorithms for Large Network Analysis
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: University of Melbourne
Current Position: Data Scientist for Conversational AI, Oracle
- Qing Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Investigation Of Topics In U-statistics And Their Applications In Risk Estimation And Cross-validation
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, Williams College
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
- Jialin Xu, PhD
Thesis Title: A Generalized Linear Model For Peak Calling in ChIP-Seq Data
Advisor: Yu Zhang
First Job: Biostatistician, Merck & Co. Inc.
Current Position: Associate Director, CVM Retinal
- Adriano Zambom, PhD
Thesis Title: Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: University of Campinas
Current Position: Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge
- Wei Zhong, PhD
Thesis Title: Feature Screening And Variable Selection For Ultrahigh Dimensional Data Analysis
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
Current Position: Professor, Xiamen University, China
- Muhammad Atiyat, PhD
Thesis Title: Instrumental Variable Modeling in a Survival Analysis Framework
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
First Job: Associate Statistican, United Nations
- Kiranmoy Das, PhD
Thesis Title: Semi-parametric Bayesian Functional Mapping With Irregular Sparse Longitudinal Data
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Temple University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
- Isaac Dialsingh, PhD
Thesis Title: False Discovery Rates when the Statistics are Discrete
Advisor: Naomi Altman
First Job: Lecturer, University of the West Indies
- John Hughes, PhD
Thesis Title: Motor Proteins and Non-Gaussian Areal Data: Advances in Stochastic Modeling and Computation
Advisor: John Fricks and Murali Haran
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
- Jiahan Li, PhD
Thesis Title: The Bayesian Lasso, Bayesian Scad And Bayesian Group Lasso With Applications To Genome-wide Association Studies
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Current Position: Quantitative Investment Analyst, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC
- Junyi Lin, PhD
Thesis Title: Model Misspecification and Feature Screening for Ultrahigh Dimensional Data
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Firth Third Bank
Current Position: Senior Quantitative manager VP, Fifth Third Bank
- Scott Roths, PhD
Thesis Title: Generalized Stepwise Procedures For Controlling The False Discovery Rate
Advisor: Jogesh Babu
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Penn State University
- Matthew Tibbits, PhD
Thesis Title: Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Advisor: Murali Haran and John Liechty
First Job: Applied Research Mathematician, Department of Defense
- Mina Yoo, PhD
Thesis Title: Measures Of Agreement In Method Comparison Studies For Intensive Longitudinal Data
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University
Current Position: VP, Quantitative Operations Assoc, Bank of America
- Andreas Artemiou, PhD
Thesis Title: Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Michigan Tech University
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK
- K. Sham Bhat, PhD
Thesis Title: Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Data with Applications to Climate Science
Advisor: Murali Haran
First Job: Scientist, Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratories
- Yeojin Chung, PhD
Thesis Title: Likelihood-tuned Density Estimator And Its Application To Clustering
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Jia Li
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Kookmin University, South Korea
- Tracey Hammel, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Estimation For Finite Mixture Models Using An Exponential Tilt
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
- Ruth Hummel, PhD
Thesis Title: Improving Estimation For Exponential-family Random Graph Models
Advisor: David Hunter
First Job: Instructor, University of Florida
Current Job: Academic Ambassador, SAS Institute Inc, JMP Division
- Kion Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: The Recent History Functional Linear Model And Its Extension To Sparse Longitudinal Data
Advisor: Damla Senturk
First Job: Penn State University
Current Position: Team Leader, SK Telecom
- Min Hee Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: Thresholding Methods For Hypothesis Testing In Hanova
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, Hana Institute of Technology
- Min Kyung Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Manager, Samsung Fire and Marine Ins. Co.
- Hyang Min Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Variable Selection and Regularized Mixture Modeling for Clustering
Advisor: Jia Li
- Rong Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Multiple Imputation For Missing Items In Multi-themed Questionnaires
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
Current Position: Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Xianyun Mao, PhD
Thesis Title: Density Estimation And Modal Based Method For Haplotyping And Recombination
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Data Scientist, Lyft
- Byran Smucker, PhD
Thesis Title: By Design: Exchange Algorithms to Construct Exact Model-Robust and Multiresponse Experimental Designs
Advisor: Enrique del Castillo and James Rosenberger
First Job: Assistant Professor, Miami University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Miami University
- Jianping Sun, PhD
Thesis Title: Composite Likelihood in Long Sequence Data
Advisr: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Current Position: Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro
- Huei-Wen Teng, PhD
Thesis Title: Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches For Financial Option Pricing
Advisor: John Liechty
First Job: Assistant Professor, National Central University
Current position: Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Lu Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: Bayesian Analysis Of Multivariate Regime Switching Covariance Model
Advisor: John Liechty
First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google Inc.
2000s
- Yuexiao Dong, PhD
Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Temple University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Temple University
- Sasiprapa Hiriote, PhD
Thesis Title: Multivariate Concordance Correlation Coefficient
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
First Job: Faculty, Silpakorn University
- Mian Huang, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Techniques In Finite Mixture Of Regression Models
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University
- Bo Kai, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling
Advisor: David Hunter and Runze Li
First Job: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Current Position: Associate Professor, College of Charleston
- Juyoun Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Sampling Contingency Tables Given Sets Of Marginals And/or Conditionals In The Context Of Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
First Job: Manager, Credit Risk MGMT Division
- Shu-Min Liao, PhD
Thesis Title: Heteroscedastic Unbalanced Nested Designs And Fully Nonparametric Analysis Of Covariance
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Assistant Professor, Amherst University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Amherst University
- Yuejiao Jiang, PhD
Thesis Title: Estimation And Forecasting Methodologies For Nonparametric Regression Models Via Dynamic Linear Models
Advisor: Runze Li
- Virginia (Jean) Recta, PhD
Thesis Title: A Model-based Analysis of Semicontinuous Spatial Data
Advisor: Murali Haran and James Rosenberger
First Job: Mathematical Statistician, Food and Drug Administration
- Megan Romer, PhD
Thesis Title: The Statistical Analysis of Monotone Incomplete Multivariate Normal Data
Advisor: Donald Richards
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
- Yiyun Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: Regularization Parameter Selection for Variable Selection in High-dimensional Modelling
Advisor: Runze Li
First job: Senior Biostatistician, Novartis AG
Current Position: Executive Director, Autolus Lt
- Tatiana Benaglia, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Estimation In Multivariate Finite Mixture Models
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University
- Trent Gaugler, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Models for Crossed Mixed Effects Designs
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Research Associate, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
- Guodong Hui, PhD
Thesis Title: Matrix Distances With their Application to Finding Directional Deviations from normality in High-Dimensional Data
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Biostatistician, Pharmanet Development Group
Current Position: Principal Biostatistician, Sanofi
- Yan Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Local Modeling For Data With Autocorrelations
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Senior Statistician, Capital One
- Daeyoung Kim, PhD
Thesis Title: Mixture Inference At The Edge Of Identifiability
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
- Yu Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonlinear Dimension Reduction in Feature Space
Advisor: Bing Li
- Wei Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: A General Class of Agreement Coefficients for Categorical and Continuous Responses
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
Current Position: Senior Research and Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Junjia Zhu, PhD
Thesis Title: Essays on Monitoring Profile Data
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Penn State University
- Bing Han, PhD
Thesis Title: A Bayesian Approach To False Discovery Rate For Large Scale Simultaneous Inference
Advisor: Rana Arnold
First Job: Associate Statistician, Rand Corporation
Current Position: Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation
- Hyekyung Jung, PhD
Thesis Title: A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
- Doh Yung Kang, PhD
Thesis Title: Causal Inference By Semiparametric Imputation
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: Research Associate, Penn State University
- Byungtae Seo, PhD
Thesis Title: Doubly-smoothed Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
- Zhihui Tang, PhD
Thesis Title: Three Topics On Dimension Reduction
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Biostatistician, PPD
- Yang Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Varying-Coefficient Models: New Models, Inference Procedures, and Applications
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Associate Program Manager, Citi Cards
- Hong Xu, PhD
Thesis Title: Contributions to Adaptive Web Sampling Designs
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Bank of America
- Jingyun Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: Measurement of Agreement for Categorical Data
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
First Job: Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rush University
- Weixin Yao, PhD
Thesis Title: On Using Mixtures And Modes Of Mixtures In Data Analysis
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
- Derek Young, PhD
Thesis Title: A Study of Mixtures of Regressions
Advisor: Dave Hunter
First Job: Research Scientist, Bechtel Bettis Inc.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
- Zhe Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: New modeling Procedures for Functional Data in Computer Experiments
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Bank of America
- Yi-Ju Chen, PhD
Thesis Title: Robustness Properties Of Generalized Correlation Coefficients, With Applications To Cross-over Designs
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
First Job: National Chung Chen University
- John Dziak, PhD
Thesis Title: Penalized Quadratic Inference Functions For Variable Selection In Longitudinal Research
Advisor: Runze Li
First Job: Penn State University
Current Position: Research Associate Professor, Penn State University
- Hyunsook Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Two Topics: A Jackknife Maximum Likelihood Approach to Statistical Model Selection and a Convex Hull Peeling Depth Approach to Nonparametric Massive Multivariate Data Analysis with Applications
Advisor: Jogesh Babu
First Job: Penn State University
- Makhtar Sarr, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Nonparametric Inference Based On The Multivariate Trimmed Mean
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates
- Steven Gang Bai, PhD
Thesis Title: Cluster Analysis Of High Dimensional Data And Dimension Reduction For Regression
Advisor: Michael Akritas
Current Position: Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Shaoli Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction In Regression
Advisor: Bing Li
First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
- Fengjuan Xuan, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Finite Mixture Models When Training Samples Are Available
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
Current Position: Senior Director, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Xiaojiang Zhan, PhD
Thesis Title: Bayesian Semiparametric Inference Based On Ranks
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Biometrician, Merck & Co.
Current Position: Director, Celgene Corporation
- Efi Antoniou, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Imputation And (Mid-) Rank Tests For Mixed Effects Models With Missing Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Lecturer, Frederic Institute of Technology
Current Position: Supervisor Data Analytics, Hellenic Bank
- Rui Ding, PhD
Thesis Title: Multiple Response Ridge Analysis
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Genetech
- Mike Kwanisai, PhD
Thesis Title: Estimation In Link -tracing Designs With Subsampling
Advisor: Steven Thompson
First Job: Survey Statistician, NORC
Current Position: Senior Statistician, Westat
- Haiyan Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Testing In Multifactor Heteroscedastic Anova And Repeated Measures Designs With Large Number Of Levels
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First job: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Current Position: Professor, Kansas State University
- Ke Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: Using The Poisson Kernel In Model Building And Selection
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Statistician, Cytokinetics
- Shu-Chuan Chen, PhD
Thesis Title: Clustering Sequences Using Mixture Trees
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: National Health Research Institute
Current Position: Associate Professor, Idaho State University
- Hwan Chung, PhD
Thesis Title: Latent-class Modeling With Covariates
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
Current Position: Professor, Korea University,South Korea
- Hakan Demirtas, PhD
Thesis Title: Multiple Imputation For Nonignorable Dropout Using Bayesian Pattern-mixture Models
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Ryan Elmore, PhD
Thesis Title: Semiparametric Analysis Of Finite Mixture Models With Repeated Measures
Advisor: Thomas Hattmansperger
First Job: Australia National University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Denver
- Ofer Harel, PhD
Thesis Title: Strategies For Data Analysis With Two Types Of Missing Values
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Current Position: Professor, University of Connecticut
- Jiawei Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Fitting Of Multinomial Models Based On Assessment Of Model Building Errors
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
- James McDermott, PhD
Thesis Title: Low-storage Sequential Methods For Data Mining And The Analysis Of Massive Datasets
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin and Jogesh Babu
First Job: Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Quadient
- Surajit Ray, PhD
Thesis Title: Distance-based Model-selection With Application To The Analysis Of Gene Expression Data
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Current Position: Reader, University of Glasgow, UK
- HenSiong Tan, PhD
Thesis Title: Variance estimation with astronomical measurement errors
Advisor: Michael Akritas
- Jiping Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: NPMLE In Estimating The Number Of Expressed Genes Using Est Data While Accounting For Measurement Error
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Current Position: Professor, Northwestern University
- Lan Wang, PhD
Thesis Title: Testing In Heteroscedastic ANOVA With Large Number Of Levels And In Nonparametric ANCOVA
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Michael Akritas
Current Position: Professor, University of Miami
- Diya Zhang, PhD
Thesis Title: Profiling Of Gene Expression During Late Erythropoiesis
Advisor: Don Wojchowski
- KB Boomer, PhD
Thesis Title: Parameterization And Estimation Of The Multivariate Normal Model In The Presence Of Incomplete And Censored Data For The Methacholine Challenge
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
First Job: Associate Director, Penn State Statistical Consulting
Current Position: Associate Professor, Bucknell University
- Changxuan Mao, PhD
Thesis Title: Mixture Models For Species And Population Size Estimation
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
- Jerry Maples, PhD
Thesis Title: A Semiparametric Mixed Effects Model With Marginal Means Structure
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Mathematical Statistician, Census Bureau
Current Position: Principal Researcher, Census Bureau
- Michelle Schaffer, PhD
First Job: Assistant Professor, Penn State University, College of Medicine
- Laura Simon, PhD
Thesis Title: Paired Two-by-two Crossover Models For Complete, Missing-at-random, And Nonignorable Missing Data
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
First Job: Penn State University, College of Medicine
- Isidro Cruz Medina, PhD
Thesis Title: Almost Nonparametric And Nonparametric Estimation In Mixture Models
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- Haihong Li, PhD
Thesis Title: Improving Point Estimation For Models With Many Nuisance Parameters
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation
Current Position: Senior Director of Biostatistics, Sage Therapeutics
- Paul Mosquin, PhD
Thesis Title: The Analysis Of Bayesian Finite Mixtures And Discrete Choice Models
Advisor: Steven Arnold and Duncan Fong
First Job: Res. Statistician, Research Triangle Institute
Current Position: Senior Statistician, RTI International
- Chanseok Park, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Statistical Procedures Based On Quadratic Inference Function
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Clemson University
Current Position: Professor, Pusan National University, South Korea
- Sonia Rodriguez, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Data Mining Of Land-cover Maps For Characterization, Classification And Comparison Of Landscapes And Watersheds Of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Senin Banga, PhD
Thesis Title: A Risk Analysis Of Benchmark Dose For Continuous Response And Sensitivity To Model Specification
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
First Job: Minitab, Senior Statistician
- Mark Leeds, PhD
Thesis Title: Error Structures For Dynamic Linear Models: Single Source Versus Multiple Source
Advisor: Keith Ord
First Job: Bear Stearns, Wall Street
Current Position: Statistical Consultant, Statematics
- Richard McGrath, PhD
Thesis Title: Dispersion Effects In Unreplicated Fractional Factorials
Advisor: Dennis Lin
First Job: Asst Professor, Bowling Green State University
Current Position: Professor, Bowling Green State University
- Martin Felix Medina, PhD
Thesis Title: Contributions To The Theory Of Adaptive Sampling
Advisor: Steven Thompson
- Mustafa Nadar, PhD
Thesis Title: Multivariate Sign And Rank Methods Based On The Oja Criterion Function
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Assistant Professor, Gebze Institute, Turkey
Current Position: Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Jennifer Pittman, PhD
Thesis Title: Adaptive Splines and Genetic Algorithms For Optimal Statistical Modeling
Advisor: C.R. Rao
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat'l Institute of Statistical Science
Current Position: Professor, University of Miami
- Haritini Tsangari, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Models And Procedures For Nonlinear Analysis Of Covariance With Independent And Dependent Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
Current Position: Professor, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Recai Yucel, PhD
Thesis Title: Computational Tools For Missing Values In Multivariate Longitudinal And Clustered Data
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Professor, University at Albany, SUNY
1990s
- Scott Beattie, PhD
Thesis Title: Contributions To The Design And Analysis Of Experiments: Computer Experiments And Supersaturated Designs
Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
First Job: Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
Current Position: Senior Research Advisor, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Chang-Tai (George) Chao, PhD
Thesis Title: Adaptive Sampling Designs
Advisor: Steven Thompson
First Job: National Cheng Kung University, Assistant Professor
Current Position: Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University
- Arthur Dryver, PhD
Thesis Title: Adaptive Sampling Designs And Associated Estimators
Advisor: Steven Thompson
First Job: Price Waterhouse Coopers
Current Position: Associate Professor, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
- Yunling Du, PhD
Thesis Title: A Fully Nonparametric Analysis Of Covariance Method For Censored Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Columbia University, Biostatistics, Assistant Professor
- Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar, PhD
Thesis Title: Multiple Edit/multiple Imputation For Multivariate Continuous Data
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: RAND Corporation
Current Position: Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation
- Maren Olsen, PhD
Thesis Title: A Two-part Random -effects Model For Semicontinuous Longitudinal Data
Advisor: Joseph Schafer
First Job: Biostatistician, VA Health Services R&D, and Assistant
Current Position: Director, VA Medical Center, Durham, and Associate Professor, Duke University
- Suzanne Dubnicka, PhD
Thesis Title: Rank-based Procedures For Combined Paired And Unpaired Data
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
- John O'Gorman, PhD
Thesis Title: General Mixed Models With Censored Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Eli Lilly & Co.
Current Position: Director of Biostatistics, Biogen
- Peiyong (Annie) Qu, PhD
Thesis Title: Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Bing Li
First Job: Cleveland Clinic
Current Position: Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Yong-xin (George) Yang, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Inference For Symmetries Based On Ranks
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp, Philadelphia
- William Cooper, PhD
Thesis Title: Inferential Techniques For Landmark Data
Advisor: Colin Goodall and Keith Ord
First Job: Health Process Management
Current Position: Reliability Assurance Team Manager, Autoliv
- Brenda Gaydos, PhD
Thesis Title: The Semiparametric Likelihood Method And Its Extensions With Application To Errors-in-variables
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Eli Lilly and Company
Last Position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Yong Lin, PhD
Thesis Title: The Likelihood Ratio Test Of Mixture Hypotheses And The Tube Volume Problem
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Clinical Trials Organization
Current Position: Professor, Rutgers University
- Ramani Pilla, PhD
Thesis Title: Improving The Rate Of Convergence Of Em In High-dimensional Finite Mixtures
Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay
First Job: National Institutes of Health
- Maria Tipa, PhD
Thesis Title: An Evaluation Of The Usefulness Of Weights In The Presence Of Nonignorable Dropout
Advisor: Susan Murphy
- Erik Pulkstenis, PhD
Thesis Title: A Mixed Effects Model For The Analysis Of Categorical Longitudinal Data Subject To Informative Dropout
Advisor: Richard Landis and Thomas Ten Have
First Job: CL McIntosh and Associates
Current Position: Vice President, Data and Statistical Sciences, AbbVie
- Matilde Sanchez, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Analysis Of Repeated Measures
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Merck Research Lab
Current Position: Principal Statistical Consultant, SanchezKam LLC
- Shailaja Suryawanshi, PhD
Thesis Title: Analysis Of High-dimensional Data In Problems Of Regression And Discrimination, With Applications To Size And Shape Analysis
Advisor: C. R. Rao
First Job: Merck Research Lab
Current Position: Director, Merck & Co.
- Liwen Xi, PhD
Thesis Title: Measuring Goodness-of-fit In The Analysis Of Contingency Tables With Mixture-based Indices: Algorithms, Asymptotics And Inference
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Merck Research Lab
- Yanling Zuo, PhD
Thesis Title: Development Of The Likelihood Ratio Test In The Cancer Risk Model: Limiting Distributions, Testing Theory
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: University of Pittsburgh
Current Position: Senior Advisory Statistician, Minitab
- Tzuwei Cheng, PhD
Thesis Title: Regression Models For Ordinal, Partially Ordinal, Scaled, And Partially Scaled Discrete Response Variables
Advisor: Clifford C. Clogg
- Hee-Jeong Kang, PhD
Thesis Title: Bootstrapping Autoregressive Processes With Infinite Variance
Advisor: Jogesh babu
- Scott Pammer, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation And Comparison Of Response Curves
Advisor: Steven Arnold and Duncan Fong
First Job: Minitab
Current Position: Senior Advisory Statistician, Minitab
- John Tomick, PhD
Thesis Title: On Convergence Of The Nelder-mead Simplex Algorithm For Unconstrained Stochastic Optimization
Advisor: Steven Arnold and Russel Barton
First Job: Air Force Academy
Current Position: Department of State, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Principal Ndloyu, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Designs For Calibration Using Nonlinear Models
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: University of Zimbabwe
- Omer Ozturk, PhD
Thesis Title: Minimum Distance Estimation
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Current Position: Professor, Ohio State University
- George Anderson, PhD
Thesis Title: Generalized Wilcoxon Methods
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Current Position: Executive Medical Science Liaison, AstraZeneca
- Michael LaValley, PhD
Thesis Title: Extensions Of The Lynden-bell-woodroofe Method For Truncated Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University
Current Position: Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
- Scott Preston, PhD
Thesis Title: Sign-scored Methods For Testing Order-restricted Models In Thec-sample Design
Advisor:Thomas Ryan
First Job: SUNY Oswego
- Richard Waterman, PhD
Thesis Title: Projective Score Methods
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Current Position: Practice Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
- Srabashi Basu, PhD
Thesis Title: Model-based Estimation Of Attributable Risk For Categorical Data
Advisor: Richard Landis
First Job: Pharmaco Dyn Research
Current Position: Professor, Great Learning
- Nandini Kannan, PhD
Thesis Title: Estimation Of Directions Of Arrival In Signal Processing Models
Advisor: C. R. Rao
First Job: University of Texas
Current Position: Executive Director, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
- Raul Macchiavelli, PhD
Thesis Title: Likelihood-based Procedures And Order Selection In Higher Order Antedependence Models
Advisor: Steven Arnold
First Job: Louisiana State University
Current Position: Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
- Eva Petkova, PhD
Thesis Title: General Procedures For Analysis Of Collapsibility In Generalized Linear Models
Advisor: Clifford Clogg
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Current Position: Professor, NYU Langone
- Anne Torbeyns, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Goodness Of Fit Tests For Regression With Censored Data
Advisor: Michael Akritas
First Job: Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Ayanendranath Basu, PhD
Thesis Title: Minimum Disparity Estimation In The Continuous Case: Efficiency, Distributions, Robustness And Algorithms
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: University of Texas
Current Position: Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
- Clint Coakley, PhD
Thesis Title: Advances In The Study Of Breakdown And Resistance
Advisor: James Hettmansperger
First Job: Virginia Tech
- Myung Hwi Lee, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust M-estimation Under Type I.5 Censoring And Its Application To Accelerated Life Testing
Advisor: Michael Akritas
- Madhuchhanda Mazumdar, PhD
Thesis Title: A Combination Of Tests And Publication Bias In Meta-analysis
Advisor: C.R. Rao
Current Position: Director, Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science, Mount Sinai Health System
- Regis Serinko, PhD
Thesis Title: The Asymptotics Of Univariate K-mean Andk-median Clustering Under Some Nonregular Conditions
Advisor: Jogesh Babu
First Job: Penn State University
Current Position: Founder, iMathTutor
- Hongjie Zheng, PhD
Thesis Title: The Conditional Approach To Multiple Time Series Modeling
Advisor: Keith Ord
First Job: Ciba Geigy
Current Position: VP, Statistical Science and Programming, Allergan
- Michael Brown, PhD
Thesis Title: A Framework For Evaluating Interim Analysis Rules In Clinical Trials: A Decision Theoretic Approach
Advisor: Charles Antle
First job: Bristol-Myers
- Jengtung Chiang, PhD
Thesis Title: Sequential Designs For The Linear Logistic Model
Advisor: James Rosenberger
First Job: Ciba Geigy
Current Position: Associate Professor, NCCU College of Commerce, Taiwan
- Min Deng, PhD
Thesis Title: Differential Geometry In Statistical Inference
Advisor: C. R. Rao
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Current Position: Professor, Maryville University
- Terry Kissinger, PhD
Thesis Title: Using Distribution-function Metrics To Measure The Rate Of Convergence Of The Transient Distribution To The Steady-state Distribution In An M/M Queue
Advisor: Steven Arnold
- Zhijun Liu, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Contributions To Nonparametric Estimation And Robust Estimation
Advisor: C.R. Rao
First Job: Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
1980s
- William (Dave) Furman, PhD
Thesis Title: A Moment Matrix Approach To The Inferential Problems Of Normal Mixtures
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Babson College
- John Grego, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Extensions Of The Random-effects Rasch Model
Advisors: Bruce Lindsay and Clifford Clogg
First job: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Current Position: Professor, University of South Carolina
- Keith Johnson, PhD
Thesis Title: Higher-order Antedependence Models
Advisor: Steven Arnold
First Job: Hampton College
- Debasis Kundu, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Results In Estimating The Parameters Of Exponential Signals In Noise
Advisor: C. R. Rao
First Job: University of Texas
Current position: Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
- Joshua Naranjo, PhD
Thesis Title: Bounded-influence Regression: A Modified Wilcoxon Procedure
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Western Michigan University
Current Position: Professor, Western Michigan University
- Marianthi Markatou, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Bounded Influence Tests In Linear Models
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: University of Iowa
Current Position: Professor, SUNY Buffalo
- Kathryn Roeder, PhD
Thesis Title: Method Of Spacings For Semiparametric Inference
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Current Position: Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
- Subhash Lele, PhD
Thesis Title: A Study Of Estimation Procedures For Spatial Processes
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
First Job: John Hopkins University|
Current Position: Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
- Ernst Linder, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Inference In The Linear Errors-in-variables Model Using The Bootstrap, With Applications In Environmental Risk Analysis
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
First Job: University of New Hampshire
Current Position: Professor, University of New Hampshire
- Kenneth Suman, PhD
Thesis Title: A James-Stein Type Estimator Of A Distribution Function
Advisor: Steven Arnold
First Job: Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Teacher, Cotter Schools
No PhD Graduates
- Mark Becker, PhD
Thesis Title: Analysis Of Discrete Data Using Log-multiplicative Models And Other Log-nonlinear Models (Contingency Tables, Frequency Data, Association Models)
Advisor: Clifford Clogg
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Current Position: President, Georgia State University
- David Burn, PhD
Thesis Title: The Effect Of Time Series Outliers On The Sample Autocorrelation Coefficient (Arima, Moments, Lack Fit)
Advisor: Keith Ord
First Job: IMSL
Current Position: President, Improvelt!, and Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University
- Sami Gabbara, PhD
Thesis Title: Nested And Crossed Repeated Measures Models
Advisor: Steven Arnold
First Job: University of Basra
- Myron Hlynka, PhD
Thesis Title: Optimality For A Class Of Perishable Inventory Policies Under Stochastic Demand (Dynamic Programming, Blood Banks)
Advisor: Frank Haight
First Job: University of Alberta
Current Position: Professor, University of Windsor, Canada
- Mara Tableman, PhD
Thesis Title: Two-sample Procedures Based On One-sample Linear Signed Rank Statistics
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Penn State University
Current Position: Professor, Portland State University
- Jon Lemke, PhD
Thesis Title: Estimation And Testing For Two-way Contingency Tables Within Order-restricted Parameter Spaces
Advisor: William Harkness
Current Position: Chief Biostatistician, Genesis Health System
- Rafid Abdul-Razak, PhD
Thesis Title: Power Series Distributions In Mathematical Statistics And Applied Probability
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
Current Position: Associate Professor, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College, Qatar
- James Aubuchon, PhD
Thesis Title: Rank Tests In The Linear Model: Asymmetric Errors
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Ohio State University
- Philip Byrne, PhD
Thesis Title: The Analysis Of Repeated Measurements Through Time
Advisor: Steven Arnold
First Job: Smith College
- John Peterson, PhD
Thesis Title: On Some Problems In Survival Data Analysis With Covariates
Advisor: Charles Antle
Current Position: Senior Director, GalaxoSmithKline
- Terry King, PhD
Thesis Title: Sample Size Determinations For Some Reliability Problems
Advisor: Charles Antle and Robert Hultquist
- Edward Markowski, PhD
Thesis Title: Simple Estimation Procedures Based On Rank Tests For The One- And Two-sample Location Models
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- Richard Schmoyer, PhD
Thesis Title: Shrinking Techniques In Robust Regression
Advisor: Steven Arnold
- Lewis Shoemaker, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Estimates And Tests For The One-sample Scale Model With Applications To Variance Component Models
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
Current Position: Professor, Millersville University
1970s
- Kuo-Sheuan Cheng, PhD
Thesis Title: On Weighted Least Squares Rank Estimates
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- Bharat Dev Kapur, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Concepts Of Stochastic Independence And Their Implications With Characterizations And Simulations Of The Related Models
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Mohamed Mahfoud, PhD
Thesis Title: A Study Of Weighted Distributions And Size-biased Sampling
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Jessica Utts, PhD
Thesis Title: A Robust Class Of Tests And Estimates For Multivariate Location Based On Ranks
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- Yunkee Ahn, PhD
Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Multi-server Queuing Systems With Switching Rules
Advisor: Frank Haight
- Charles Taillie Jr., PhD
Thesis Title: The Mathematical Statistics Of Diversity And Abundance
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Del Scott, PhD
Thesis Title: Unified Computational Methods For Analyzing Categorical Data
Advisor: William Harkness
- David Wahrenberger, PhD
Thesis Title: A Bayesian Procedure Using A Marginal Prior In The Location And Scale Parameter Family
Advisor: Charles Antle
- Richard Feldmann, PhD
Thesis Title: Applications Of Ridge Regression To Variance Component Estimation
Advisor: Robert Hultquist
- Dennis Friday, PhD
Thesis Title: A New Multivariate Life Distribution
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Ronald Schrader, PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Inference Based On M-estimates In The Linear Model
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- James Thomas, PhD
Thesis Title: Interval Estimation And Related Topics In The Unbalanced Case Of The One-way Random Effects Model
Advisor: Robert Hultquist
- Joseph McKean, PhD
Thesis Title: Tests Of Hypotheses Based On Ranks In The General Linear Model
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
- Makarand Ratnaparkhi, PhD
Thesis Title: Certain Damage Models And Related Characterizations Of Statistical Distributions
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Richard Katz, PhD
Thesis Title: A Stochastic Process Defined On A Markov Chain: Properties And An Application To Meteorology
Advisor: Frank Haight
- George Policello II, PhD
Thesis Title: Adaptive Robust Procedures For The One-sample Location Problem
Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
- Alfred Rademaker, PhD
Thesis Title: Choosing Between Two Location And Scale Parameter Models And Related Topics
Advisor: Charles Antle
No PhD Graduates
- Gunwant Marathe, PhD
Thesis Title: On The Ergodic Theory Of Positive Operators
Advisor: Lawrence Klimko and William Harkness
- Howard Rockette, PhD
Thesis Title: Statistical Inference For The Three Parameter Weibull Distribution
Advisor: Charles Antle
- Timothy Killeen, , Ph.D. 1971
Thesis Title: Bivariate Tests For Location And Their Bahadur Efficiencies
Advisor: William Harkness and Thomas Hettmansperger
- Erwin Atzinger, PhD
Thesis Title: Mixed Effects Model Estimation - Optimal Properties
Advisor: Robert Hultquist
- Ashok Godambe, PhD
Thesis Title: Some Problems Related To The Study Of Random Matrices
Advisor: William Harkness
- George Hoetzl, PhD
Thesis Title: Confidence Intervals For Cross-product Ratios And The 2 X 2 X 2 Contingency Table
Advisor: William Harkness
- Konanur Janardan, PhD
Thesis Title: On A Class Of Multivariate Hypergeometric Models
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- William Stiteler III, PhD
Thesis Title: Measurement Of Spatial Patterns In Ecology
Advisor: Ganapati Patil
- Peter Tryon, PhD
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Tests Of Homogeneity Against Restricted Alternatives In A One-way Classification
Advisor: Thomas Hattmansperger
1960s
1964
- Edward Bolger, PhD
Thesis Title: Exponential Distributions
Advisor: William Harkness
1963
- Om Srivastava, PhD
Thesis Title: Asymptotic Behavior Of Certain Functions Of Order Statistics
Advisor: James Bartoo