PhD/Msc Alumni
2011
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
Thesis Title: Robust estimation of multivariate scatter in non-affine equivariant scenarios
Supervisor: Ruben H Zamar
First Position: Decision Support Engineering Analyst, Google Inc.
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Regression approaches to estimation of relative risk : application to multiple sclerosis studies
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
First Position: Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Biostatistician, BC Provincial Renal Agency
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Agroclimate Risk Analysis
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.
First Position: Government visiting lab postdoc, joint at AAFC and SFU
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Approximate methods for joint models in longitudinal studies
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen, Lang Wu
First Position: Analyst, KBM Group
Program: MSc