PhD/Msc Alumni
2004
Thesis Title: Extracting XML Data from HTML Respositories
Supervisor: Ruben H Zamar
First Position: Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Statistical Modelling and Inference for Discrete and Censored Familial Data
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Post-doctoral fellow, Vancouver Hospital
Current Position: Research Associate: Pharmacoepidemiology in Multiple Sclerosis Research Group, UBC
Program: PhD
2003
Thesis Title: Hidden Markov Models: Multiple Processes and Model Selection
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Longitudinal Analyses for Ordinal Expanded Disability Status Scale Scores from a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: A Conservative Prior for Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Biostatistics
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Ph.D. student, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Non-additive Effects in Logistics Regression
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Lecturer, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology Sylhet, Bangladesh
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Comparison of Normalization Methods and the Methods for Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes
First Position: Biostatistician, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Unsupervised Feature Selection in Mixture Modelling - A Bayesian Approach
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Bioinformatician. C.H. Best Institute at the University of Toronto
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Longitudinal Analyses for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcomes in the PRISMS Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Ph.D. student, Dept. of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, England
Current Position: Biostatistician Harvard School of Public Health Boston, USA
Program: MSc