PhD/Msc Alumni
2009
Thesis Title: Finding Determinants of the Expected Stocks Returns for the 1993-2007 Period
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Mathematical Statistician for Statistics Canada in Ottawa, ON
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Robust Longitudinal Analysis for a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical trial, using optimal weighted estimating equations
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Biostatistician, Vaccine Evaluation Center
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Properties of Empirical and Adjusted Empirical Likelihoods
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Evaluating the performamce of Hypothesis Testing in Case-Conrol studies with exposure Misclassification, using Frequentist and Bayesian Techniques
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Joint Models for incomplete Longitudinal data and survival data with applications in AIDS studies.
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: PhD student, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for High Throughput Genomics
Supervisor: Raphael Gottardo, Ryan Brinkman
First Position: Postdoctoral Senior Fellow, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington
Current Position: Senior Analyst, eBay Inc
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Imperfect data in the generalized linear model framework
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Median Loss Analysis with Applications to Model Selection
Supervisor: Bertrand Clarke
Program: PhD
2008
Thesis Title: Statistical Solutions for and from signal processing
Supervisor: Arnaud Doucet, Raphael Gottardo
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Finding Functional Groups of Genes using Pairwise Relational Data: Methods and Applications
Supervisor: Wyeth W. Wasserman
First Position: Statistician in Early Clinical Development, Roche in Basel, Switzerland
Program: PhD