College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Recent PhD Graduates
| PhD Date | Name | Thesis | PhD Focus Area | Thesis Advisor | Initial Position | Current Position |
| 5/13/2022 | Chunlei Wang | "Bayesian Inference for Large and Complex Data" | Statistics | Sanvesh Srivastava | Data Scientist, Google, Sunnyvale, California | |
| 5/13/2022 | Xingyu Zhou | "A Generative Approach to Conditional Distribution Estimation and its Variants and Applications" | Statistics | Jian Huang | Senior Research Statistician at Dow Chemical. Houston, Texas | |
| 5/13/2022 | Hongda Zhang | "A Procedure for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation" | Statistics | Luke Tierney | Post-doc at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China | |
| 5/13/2022 | Ben Lim | "Novel methodologies for life settlements underwriting evaluation and mortality table development" | Statistics | N. D. Shyamalkumar | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China | |
| 8/6/2021 | Samuel Justice | "Contributions to the Analysis of Vertex Centrality in Randomly Growing Tree Models" | Statistics | N. D. Shyamalkumar and R.P. Russo |
Research Scientist Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Boston, MA USA |
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| 8/6/2021 | Ruida Song | "Testing, Modeling, and Approximating Nonstationary Continuous Processes on Stream Networks" | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | Data Scientist, UFG Insurance, Cedar Rapids, IA | |
| 8/6/2021 | Chuyi Wang | "Feature Screening Rules and Algorithms for Efficient Optimization of Sparse Regression Models" | Statistics | Patrick Breheny | Analyst, Data Science, Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA USA | |
| 5/14/2021 | Abylay Zhexembay | "Valuation of multi-period barrier options and extensions" | Statistics | Elias Shiu | Unified Accumulative Pension Fund of Kazakhstan | |
| 5/14/2021 | Xun Li | "Prediction of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity via Bayesian Variable Selection and Bayesian Model Averaging” | Statistics | Joyee Ghosh | Modeler, Discover, Riverwoods, IL | |
| 12/18/2020 | Jun Tang | "Space Time Covariance Models on Networks" | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | Principal Biostatistician, Novartis, East Hanover, NJ | |
| 8/7/2020 | Rui Huang | "Sparse causal time series analysis" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China | |
| 8/7/2020 | Jin Meng | "Topics in high dimensional statistical learning with applications in property-casualty insurance" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Data Scientist, United Fire Group, Cedar Rapids, IA | |
| 8/7/2020 | Siyang Tao | "A contribution to modeling tail dependence" | Statistics with Emphasis on Actuarial Science | N.D. Shyamalkumar | Assistant Professor, Ball State University, Muncie, IN | |
| 5/15/2020 | Yunju Im | "Bayesian Subgroup Analysis in Regression Using Mixture Models" | Statistics | Aixin Tan | Post-doc, Yale University, New Haven, CT | |
| 5/15/2020 | Rui Jin | "Understanding and Improving MCMC Methods for High-dimensional Problems" | Statistics | Aixin Tan | Research Scientist, Eli Lilly. Indianapolis, IN | |
| 5/15/2020 | Qiansheng Zhu | “On improved confidence intervals for parameters of discrete distribution" | Statistics | Joseph Lang | Senior Analyst, CITI, Wilmington, DE | |
| 12/20/2019 | Wenda Tu | "Heterogeneity Pursuit in Regression Analysis" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Visiting Associate, FDA, Washington DC | |
| 8/2/2019 | Zhijiang (Van) Liu | "Testing Covariance Structure of Spatial Stream Network Data Using Torgegram Components and Subsampling" | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, California | |
| 8/2/2019 | Zhaofeng Tang | "Quantitative Risk Management under Systematic and Systemic Risks" | Statistics with Emphasis on Actuarial Science | Ambrose Lo (co-chair); Qihe Tang (co-chair) | Associate Model Validation, S & P Gp;bal Ratings, Chicago, IL | |
| 8/2/2019 | Haibo Liu | "Pricing, bankruptcy, and liquidation under insurance and financial risks in a Markovian framework" | Statistics with Emphasis on Actuarial Science | Ambrose Lo (co-chair); Qihe Tang (co-chair) | ||
| 5/10/2019 | Sheng Wang | "Regularized Skewness Parameter Estimation for Multivariate Skew Normal and Skew t Distributions" | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | Data Scientist, JDA Software, Dallas, TX | |
| 12/14/2018 | Yingying Liu | "Bayesian Hierarchical Normal Intrinsic Conditional Autoregressive Model for Stream Networks" | Statistics | Kate Cowles and Dale Zimmerman | Biogen, Cambridge, MA | |
| 8/3/2018 | Riad Jarjour | "Clustering Financial Time Series for Volatility Modeling" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | ||
| 8/3/2018 | Bo Wang | "Structural Change Detection Via Penalized Regression" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Data Scientist at Liberty Mutual Insurance, Iowa City, IA | |
| 8/3/2018 | Juan Cervantes | "Tempering Spatial Autocorrelation in the Residuals of Linear and Generalized Models by Incorporating Selected Eigenvectors" | Statistics | Kate Cowles | ||
| 8/3/2018 | Fuli Zhang | "Spectral Classification of High Dimensional Time Series" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Sr. Quant Analyst for Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, OH. | |
| 5/11/2018 | Xiao Wang | "On Pricing Barrier Options And Exotic Variations" | Statistics with Emphasis on Actuarial Science | Elias Shiu | Synchrony Financial, Chicago, IL | |
| 5/12/2017 | Zhenhao Zhou | "From Valuing equity-linked death benefits to pricing American options" | Statistics with Emphasis on Actuarial Science | Elias Shiu | Global Atlantic Financial Group, New York City, NY | Ant Financial Service Group, Hangzhou, China |
| 12/16/2016 | Congrui Yi | "Penalized Methods and Algorithms for High-dimensional Regression in the Presence of Heterogeneity" | Statistics | Jian Huang | Data Scientist with Expedia, Inc. | Data Scientist with Expedia, Inc. |
| 8/5/2016 | Harsimran Somal | "Heterogeneous Computing for the Bayesian HNICAR Model with Incomplete Data" | Statistics | Kate Cowles | Private Consultation | Private Consultation |
| 8/5/2016 | Ziqian Zhou | "Statistical Inference of Distributed Delay Differential Equations" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Senior Biostatistician Gilead, San Francisco Bay Area | Senior Biostatistician Gilead, San Francisco Bay Area |
| 5/13/2016 | Feiran Jiao | "High-dimensional inference of ordinal data with medical applications" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD | Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD |
| 5/15/2015 | Ryne Van Krevelen | "Improved Interval Estimation of Comparative Treatment Effects" | Statistics | Joseph B. Lang | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Elon University, Elon NC | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Elon University, Elon NC |
| 12/19/2014 | Xiangmin Zhang | "Nonconvex Selection in Nonparametric Additive Models" | Statistics | Jian Huang | Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD | Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD |
| 8/8/2014 | Hao Chai | "Statistical Inference in High Dimensional and AFT Models" | Statistics | Jian Huang | Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT | Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT |
| 8/2/2013 | Shu-Ching Chang | “Antedependence Models for Skewed Continuous Longitudinal Data” | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | Postdoc at Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington | Postdoc at Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington |
| 8/2/2013 | Fan Yang | "Asymptotics for Risk Measures of Extreme Risks” | Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences | Qihe Tang | Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada | Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada |
| 5/17/2013 | Bin Li | “Look-back Stopping Times and Their Applications to Liquidation Risk and Exotic Options” | Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences | Qihe Tang, Co-Advisor & Lihe Wang (Co-Advisor, Department of Mathematics) | Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada | Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada |
| 5/17/2013 | Zhongyi Yuan | “Quantitative analysis of extreme risks in insurance and finance” | Statistics | Qihe Tang | Assistant Professor Department of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business | Assistant Professor Department of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business |
| 7/27/2012 | Jinzheng Li | "Statistical detection with weak signals via regularization" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | ||
| 5/11/2012 | Xiongwen Tang | "Two-level lognormal frailty model and competing risks model with missing cause of failure" | Statistics | Mike Jones | ||
| 5/11/2012 | Jae Youn Ahn | “Non-parametric inference of risk measures” | Statistics | N.D. Shyamalkumar | ||
| 7/29/2011 | Kun Chen | "Regularized multivariate stochastic regression" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | ||
| 7/29/2011 | Jin (Gordon) Liu | "Penalized methods in genome-wide association studies" | Statistics | Jian Huang | ||
| 7/29/2011 | Yunlong Xie | "Likelihood-based inference for antedependence (markov) models for categorical longitudinal data" | Statistics | Dale Zimmerman | ||
| 12/16/2011 | Fei Su | "Statistical analysis of nonlinear diffusion processes" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan, Elias Shiu | ||
| 12/17/2010 | Tianyang Zhang | "Partly parametic generalized additive model" | Statistics | Kung-Sik Chan | ||
| 12/18/2009 | Dong Liang | "Issues in Bayesian Gaussian Markov Random Field Models With Application to Inter-sensor Calibration" | Statistics | Kate Cowles |