PhD/MSc Alumni
2009
Song Cai
Thesis Title: Application to Phenological Data
Supervisor: Nathaniel K. Newlands, James V. Zidek
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Hernan Epstein
Thesis Title: Finding Determinants of the Expected Stocks Returns for the 1993-2007 Period
Supervisor: Harry Joe
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Mathematical Statistician for Statistics Canada in Ottawa, ON
Shuyu Fan
Thesis Title: Robust Longitudinal Analysis for a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical trial, using optimal weighted estimating equations
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Biostatistician, Vaccine Evaluation Center
Yi Huang
Thesis Title: Properties of Empirical and Adjusted Empirical Likelihoods
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Ehsanul Karim
Thesis Title: Evaluating the performamce of Hypothesis Testing in Case-Conrol studies with exposure Misclassification, using Frequentist and Bayesian Techniques
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Derrick Lee
Thesis Title: Joint Models for incomplete Longitudinal data and survival data with applications in AIDS studies.
Supervisor: Lang Wu
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Tian Shen
Thesis Title: Formal and Informal Approaches to Adjusting for Exposure Mismeasurement
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Biostatistical Analyst, QLT Inc.
Current Position: Biostatistician, Rick Hansen Institute
2008
Jochen Brumm
Thesis Title: Finding Functional Groups of Genes using Pairwise Relational Data: Methods and Applications
Supervisor: Jennifer Bryan, Wyeth W. Wasserman
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Statistician in Early Clinical Development, Roche in Basel, Switzerland
Yiping Dou
Thesis Title: Dynamic Linear Modeling Approaches for Environmental Space-Time Processes
Supervisor: James V. Zidek, Nhu Le
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Revenue Insight Analyst at Google, San Jose, California
Justin Harrington
Thesis Title: Extending Linear Grouping analysis and robust estimators for very large data sets
Supervisor: Matías Salibián-Barrera
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Senior Manager, Hedge Funds, Market Risk Management at Scotia Capital
Bela Nagy
Thesis Title: Valid Estimation and Prediction Inference in Analysis of a computer Model
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Jason Loeppky
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Mohua Podder
Thesis Title: Robust Genotype Classification Using Dynamic Variable Selection
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Ruben H. Zamar
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral fellow at Agriculture Canada
Current Position: Biostatistician, Canadian Vigour Centre
Hui Shen
Thesis Title: Efficient cross validation for model assessment and comparison
Supervisor: William J. Welch
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Data Analyst, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Guohua Yan
Thesis Title: Linear Clustering with application to single nucleotide plymorphism genotyping
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Ruben H. Zamar
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick
Luke Bornn
Thesis Title: Statistical Solutions for and from signal processing
Supervisor: Arnaud Doucet, Raphael Gottardo
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Jieyun (Erin) Ding
Thesis Title: Mixed Effects Models with Incompletely Observed Data, with application to AIDS studies
Supervisor: Lang Wu
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Jing (Jina) Qu
Thesis Title: Composite Likelihood for a Stochastic Volatility Model for Financial Time Series
Supervisor: Harry Joe
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Senior Research Analyst at WorkSafeBC
Alexandra Romann
Thesis Title: Evaluating the performance of stimulation extrapolation and Bayesian Adjustments for Measurement Error
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Statistician, BC Provincial Renal Agency
2007
Md. Shahadut Hossain
Thesis Title: Dealing with Measurement Error in Covariates with Special Reference to Logistic Regression Model: A Flexible Parametric Approach
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow at BC Cancer Agency
Current Position: Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Zhong Liu
Thesis Title: Combining Deterministic and Statistical Methods in Modeling Environmental Processes
Supervisor: James V. Zidek, Nhu Le
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Senior Consultant at TransUnion, Hong Kong
Juxin Liu
Thesis Title: Average Effects for Regression Models with Misspecifications and Diffuse Interaction Models
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
Lawrence McCandless
Thesis Title: Bayesian Propensity Score Analysis for Observational Data
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Research Associate in Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London UK
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Jean-Francois Plante
Thesis Title: Adaptive Likelihood Weights and Mixtures of Empirical Distributions
Supervisor: James V. Zidek
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto
Current Position: Professeur Adjoint, HEC Montréal
Wei Wang
Thesis Title: Linear Mixed Models in Functional Regression
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Research Associate, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Senior Biostatistician, Center for Outcomes Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rong Chu
Thesis Title: Bayesian Adjustment for Exposure Misclassification in Case-Control Studies
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Asst. Biostatistics Manager, Agensys.
Kimberly Ann Fernandes
Thesis Title: Comparing the Validity and Performance of Four Analysis Methods for Small Cluster Randomized Studies with Small Intra-Class Correlations.
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Aline Tabet
Thesis Title: Bayesian Inference in the Multivariate Probit Model
Supervisor: Kevin Murphy, Arnaud Doucet
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Wen Zhang
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
2006
Md Javar Ahmed Khan
Thesis Title: Robust Model Selection for High-dimensional datasets
Supervisor: Ruben H. Zamar
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wei Liu
Thesis Title: The Theory and Methods for Measurement Errors and Missing Data Problems in Semiparametric Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models
Supervisor: Lang Wu
Program: Ph.D.
First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto