PhD/Msc Alumni
2008
Thesis Title: Mixed Effects Models with Incompletely Observed Data, with application to AIDS studies
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Dynamic Linear Modeling Approaches for Environmental Space-Time Processes
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Revenue Insight Analyst at Google, San Jose, California
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Extending Linear Grouping analysis and robust estimators for very large data sets
Supervisor: Matías Salibián-Barrera
First Position: Senior Manager, Hedge Funds, Market Risk Management at Scotia Capital
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Valid Estimation and Prediction Inference in Analysis of a computer Model
Supervisor: William J. Welch
First Position: Post-doctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Robust Genotype Classification Using Dynamic Variable Selection
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Ruben H Zamar
First Position: Post-doctoral fellow at Agriculture Canada
Current Position: Biostatistician, Canadian Vigour Centre
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Composite Likelihood for a Stochastic Volatility Model for Financial Time Series
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Senior Research Analyst at WorkSafeBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Evaluating the performance of stimulation extrapolation and Bayesian Adjustments for Measurement Error
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Statistician, BC Provincial Renal Agency
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Efficient cross validation for model assessment and comparison
Supervisor: William J. Welch
First Position: Data Analyst, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Linear Clustering with application to single nucleotide plymorphism genotyping
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Ruben H Zamar
First Position: Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick
Program: PhD
2007
Thesis Title: Bayesian Adjustment for Exposure Misclassification in Case-Control Studies
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Asst. Biostatistics Manager, Agensys.
Program: MSc