PhD/MSc Alumni
2015
Thesis Title: Instrumental Variables Selection: A Comparison between Regularization and Post-Regularization Methods
Supervisor: Gabriela V. Cohen Freue
First Position: Statistician- Medical Research Council, Lifecourse, Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Divide and Conquer Sequential Monte Carlo for Phylogenetics
Supervisor: Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
First Position: PhD student, University of Washington, Department of Statistics
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Conditional Extremes in Asymmetric Financial Markets
Supervisor: Natalia Nolde
First Position: PhD student in Finance, INSEAD, Fontainebleau
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Causal Inference Approaches for Dealing with Time-dependent Confounding in Longitudinal Studies, with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Research
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson, John Petkau
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES)
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: A Markov Random Fields Approach to Modelling Habitat
Supervisor: Matías Salibián-Barrera
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Air Quality Model Evaluation Through the Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Ozone Features
Supervisor: William J. Welch
First Position: Scotiabank, Manager, Risk Model Validation and Vetting Team
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: DrSMC:A Sequential Monte Carlo Sampler for Deterministic Relationships on Continuous Random Variables
Supervisor: Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
First Position: PhD student, Statistics and Machine Learning PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Program: MSc