PhD Alumni 2000-2009

Bibhas Chakraborty
Advisor: Susan Murphy
Dissertation: A Study of Non-regularity in Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Some Design Considerations for Multicomponent Interventions
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Nam Hee Choi
Advisor: Kerby Shedden and Ji Zhu
Dissertation: Investigation of Smooth and Non-smooth Penalties for Regularized Model Selection in Regression
Last Known Position: Mathematical Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration

Lacey Gunter
Advisor: Susan Murphy and Ji Zhu
Dissertation: Variable Selection for Decision Making
Last Known Position: Owner/Consultant, Gunter Statistical Consulting, Provo, UT

Natallia V. Katenka
Advisor: Liza Levina and George Michailidis
Dissertation: Statistical Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Director of Statistics Undergraduate Studies, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Yevgeniya (Jane) Pinelis 
Advisor: Ben Hansen
Dissertation: Testing for Covariate Balance in Comparative Studies
Last Known Position: Chief AI Engineer, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Matthew Linn
Advisor: Anna Amirdjanova
Dissertation: Nonlinear Filtering of Random Fields in the Presence of Long-Memory Noise and Related Problems in Stochastic Analysis
Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Herle McGowan
Advisor: Vijay Nair and Brenda Gunderson
Dissertation: Experimentation Methodologies for Educational Research with an Emphasis on the Teaching of Statistics
Last Known Position: Teaching Associate Professor, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

Harsh Singhal
Advisor: George Michailidis
Dissertation: Statistical Inverse Problems on Graphs with Application to Flow Volume Estimation in Computer Networks
Last Known Position: Head of Enterprise NLP and Innovation Data Science, Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC

Lili Yang
Advisor: George Michailidis
Dissertation: Sample Based Estimation of Network Traffic Flow Characteristics
Last Known Position: Global Head of Risk, PingPong Payments

Aijun Zhang
Advisor: Vijay Nair and Agus Sudjianto
Dissertation: Statistical Methods in Credit Risk Modeling
Last Known Position: Quantitative Analytics Senior Manager & Head of Validation Engineering, Wells Fargo

Nengfeng Zhou
Advisor: Ji Zhu
Dissertation: Sparse Model Identification for High Dimensional Data
Last Known Position: Quantitiative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo

Stacey Culp
Advisor: Robert Keener and Julian Faraway
Dissertation: Warping Methods for Means and Variances in Functional Data
Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Kam Hamidieh
Advisor: George Michailidis and Stilian Stoev
Dissertation: Topics in Statistical Modeling and Estimation of Extremes and Their Dependence
Last Known Position: Lecturer, Rice University

Bodhisattva Sen
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe and Moulinath Banerjee
Dissertation: A Study of Bootstrap and Likelihood Based Methods in Non-Standard Problems
Last Known Position: Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY

Ho Keun Sun
Advisor: Robert Keener
Dissertation: Hybrid Bootstrap for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci and Change Point Problems
Last Known Position: Professor, Pusan National University

Amy Shepherd Wagaman
Advisor: Liza Levina
Dissertation: Topics in High-Dimensional Inference with Applications to Raman Spectroscopy
Last Known Position: Professor of Statistics, Amherst College, Amherst MA

Ou Zhao
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe
Dissertation: Stationary Random Walks and Isotonic Regression
Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Daniel Almirall
Advisor: Susan Murphy
Dissertation: Towards Assessing Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation in Experimental and Observational Studies
Last Known Position: Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

Carles Breto
Advisor: Edward Ionides
Dissertation: Statistical Inference for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Last Known Position: Teaching and Research Staff, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Mark Culp
Advisor: George Michailidis
Dissertation: Multi-view Learning with Additive Models on Graphs
Last Known Position: Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Yan Lan
Advisor: George Michailidis and Moulinath Banerjee
Dissertation: Topics on Change-Point Estimation Under Adaptive Sampling Procedures
Last Known Position: VP, Sr Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Joon Sang Lee
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe
Dissertation: Two Stage Sequential Estimation Procedures and A Convex Optimization Problem
Last Known Position: Senior Principal Scientist, Sanofi, Boston, MA

Youjuan (Jane) Li
Advisor: Ji Zhu
Dissertation: Efficient Computation and Model Selection for Regularized Quantile Regression
Last Known Position: Head of Siri Search Analytics, Apple

Anupap Por Paul Somboonsavatdee
Advisor: Vijay Nair and Ananda Sen
Dissertation: Contributions to Reliability and Lifetime Data Analysis
Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Natalya Verbitsky
Advisor: Stephen Raudenbush
Dissertation: Associational and Causal Inference in Spatial Hierarchical Settings: Theory and Applications
Last Known Position: Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington D.C.

Chuang Zheng
Advisor: Kerby Shedden
Dissertation: Uniform Simulation of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices, withApplications to Evaluating Classifiers
Last Known Position: Unknown

Su Bang Choe
Advisor: Julian Faraway
Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Orientation Trajectories via Quaternions with Applications to Human Motion
Last Known Position: Manager, Ford Motor Credit Company, Dearborn, MI

Joel Dood
Advisor: Edward Rothman
Dissertation: On The Analysis and Design of Computer Experiments
Last Known Position: Statistician, SAS, Raleigh-Durham, NC

Shiang-Tung Jung
Advisor: Richard Gonzalez
Dissertation: A Random Effects Approach to Unfolding Models
Last Known Position: Director, Ionis Pharmaceiticals

Rohit Kulkarni
Advisor: Kerby Shedden
Dissertation: Discovering Meaningful Associations in Biological Networks via Low-order Correlation Coefficients
Last Known Position: Senior Data Scientist, Omnicell

Jayanta Kumar Pal
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe and Moulinath Banerjee
Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Inference in Shape Restricted Problems with Applications to Astronomy
Last Known Position: Principal Statistician, Fairmatic

Akarin Phaibulpanich
Advisor: Kerby Shedden
Dissertation: Contributions to Metric Learning for Nearest Neighbor Classification
Last Known Position: Teacher, Chulalongkorn Business School, Bangkok,Thailand

Jing Wang
Advisor: Julian Faraway
Dissertation: Statistical Modeling for 3-D Trajectories
Last Known Position: Bank of America, Atlanta, GA

Jennifer Shueh-Inn Hu
Advisor: Julian Faraway
Dissertation: Modeling Variation in Functional Responses with Applications in Human Motion Analysis
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Ming Chuan University

Earl Lawrence 
Advisor: Vijay Nair and George Michailidis
Dissertation: Flexicast Network Delay Tomography
Last Known Position: Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, NM

Xiao Wang
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe and Vijay Nair
Dissertation: Nonparametric Inference with Applications to Dark Matter Estimation in Astronomy and Degradation Modeling in Reliability
Last Known Position: Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Gregory Dyson
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu
Dissertation: New Techniques in Clustering and Microarray Data Analysis
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Ajita Vijayan Gopikrishnan
Advisor: Vijay Nair
Dissertation: Reliability Inference Based on Degradation and Time To Failure Data: Some Models, Methods and Efficiency Comparisons
Last Known Position: Unknown

Sonya Lisa Vartivarian
Advisor: Roderick Little
Dissertation: On the Formation of Weighting Class Adjustments for Unit Nonresponse in Sample Surveys
Last Known Position: Statistician, Government Accountability Office

Bowei Xi 
Advisor: Vijay Nair and George Michailidis
Dissertation: Estimating Internal Link Loss Rates Using Active Network Tomography
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Enrique E. Alvarez 
Advisor: Robert Keener
Dissertation: Likelihood Based Estimation of Stationary Semi-Markov Processes Under Window Censoring
Last Known Position: Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina

Jee-Weon Choe 
Advisor: Robert Keener
Dissertation:Bayesian Optimality Criteria for Supersaturated Designs
Last Known Position: Supervisor of Origination Analytics, Ford Motor Company

Dong-Yun Kim  
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe 
Dissertation: Sequential Test and Change Point Problems with Staggered Entry
Last Known Position: Mathematical Statistician, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda, MD

David Mease  
Advisor: Vijay Nair 
Dissertation: Contributions to Engineering Statistics: X-Testing for Reliability and Optimal Partitioning Strategies
Last Known Position: Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, CA

Graciela Beatriz Mentz
Advisor: Anant Kshirsagar
Dissertation: Longitudinal Data Analysis Using Growth Curve Models
Last Known Position: Senior Analyst and Programmer, University of Michigan - Anesthesiology Department, Ann Arbor, MI

Yongyun Shin
Advisor: Stephen Raudenbush 
Dissertation: Inference and Applications in Hierarchical Linear Models with Missing Data
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Ying-Chao Hung
Advisor: George Michailidis and Derek Bingham  
Dissertation: Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Networks with Shared Resources
Last Known Position: Professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Xianggui Qu
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Some Problems in the Theory and Construction of Factorial Designs
Last Known Position: Professor, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Bruno Sousa 
Advisor: George Michailidis and Bruce Hill  
Dissertation: A Contribution to the Estimation of the Tail Index of Heavy-Tailed Distributions
Last Known Position: Research Fellow, Centre for Malaria & Tropical Diseases, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Mark Stuff 
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe and Robert Keener  
Dissertation: Derivation and Estimation of Euclidean Invariants of Far Field Range Data
Last Known Position: Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Technological University

Roshan Vengazhiyil 
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Modeling and Optimization for Robust Parameter Design
Last Known Position: Professor, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Tonglin Zhang 
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe  
Dissertation: Problems in Restricted Parameter Spaces
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Jayanti Gupta 
Advisor: Paul Damien  
Dissertation: Bayesian Inference on Symmetric Groups
Last Known Position: Founder, NishKash

Vadim Kutsyy 
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Modeling and Inference for Spatial Processes with Ordinal Data
Last Known Position: Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Wei Biao Wu  
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe   
Dissertation: Studies in Time Series and Random Dynamics
Last Known Position: Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Hongquan Xu  
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Optimal Factor Assignment for Asymmetrical Fractional Factorial Designs:  Theory and Applications
Last Known Position: Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Donglin Zeng 
Advisor: Susan Murphy  
Dissertation: Adjusting for Dependent Censoring Using High-Dimensional Auxiliary Information
Last Known Position: Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

William Brenneman
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Inference for Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Factorial Experiments
Last Known Position: Retired Statistics & Data Science Research Fellow, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

Xiaoli Shirley Hou  
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Modeling, Analysis and Optimization in Parameter Design
Last Known Position: Scientist, Merck, 

Kirsten Namesnik  
Advisor: Julian Faraway  
Dissertation: Statistical Shape Analysis of Facial Motions
Last Known Position: Lecturer, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Zhaohui Qin 
Advisor: Paul Damien  
Dissertation: Uniform Scale Mixture Models with Applications to Bayesian Inference
Last Known Position: Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Yao Wang 
Advisor: Julian Faraway  
Dissertation: Simultaneous Inference, Roughness Considerations and Functional Prediction Models for Functional Response Data
Last Known Position: Group Manager, Mercury Insurance, Orange County, CA

Li-An Xu  
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Contributions to Some Statistical Problems in Advanced Manufacturing
Last Known Position: Vice President, Head of Biostatistics, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

Rong Zhang 
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe  
Dissertation: Isotonic Density Estimation with Smoothing
Last Known Position: Actuarial Manager, Aetna, Ann Arbor, MI

Yu Zhu  
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: A Theory of Experimental Design for Multiple Groups of Factors
Last Known Position: Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN