PhD/MSc Alumni
2011
Thesis Title: Dependence Structure for Sums of Dependent Risks
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Research Assistant, SCARL, UBC
Current Position: Research Assitant, UBC Hospital
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Generalized Model of Moments - Theoretical, Econometric and Simulation Studies
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD student, Business Administration; Marketing, Sauder School of Business, UB
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Magnetic resonance imaging lesion count as a surrogate endpoint in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis clinical trials
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Medical Council of Canada, Ottawa
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Identifying interaction effects in high-throughput studies of growth
First Position: Researcher, James Hogg Research Center, St. Paul's Hospital
Current Position: Data Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Group sequential methods in clinical trial research
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD student, Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Evaluation of analysis and approaches to longitudinal ordinal responses in multiple sclerosis clinical trials
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistician, Dept. of Medicine (Neurology), UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Dynamic Duration of Load Models
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman, Lang Wu
First Position: PhD student, Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Quantitative Analyst, Google
Program: MSc
2010
Thesis Title: Wood property relationships and survival models in reliability
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: UBC Center for Health Services and Policy Research
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
First Position: Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Analyst, Canadian Joint Replacement Registry, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Time-Varying Exposure Subject to Misclassification: Bias Characterization and Adjustment
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Instructor, Camosun College
Current Position: PhD Student, Department of Statistics, McGill University
Program: MSc