PhD/Msc Alumni
2012
Thesis Title: A study of the relationship between CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and historical volatility
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: PhD student - Desautel Faculty of Management, McGill University
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Applications of Penalized Likelihood Methods for Feature Selection in Statistical Modeling
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Two-Step and Likelihood Methods for Joint Models
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: Research Assistant - Dept. of Statistics UBC
Current Position: Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
Supervisor: Lang Wu
Current Position: Statistician, Telus, Vancouver
Program: MSc
2011
Thesis Title: Statistical efficiency of phase II multiple sclerosis clinical trials with different MRI scanning frequencies
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistician, Department of Orthopaedics, UBC
Program: MSc
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