PhD/Msc Alumni
2009
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
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