PhD/Msc Alumni
2000
Thesis Title: Contribution to the Theory of Robust Inference
First Position: Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, UBC
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Case-control Studies with Misclassified Exposure: A Bayesian Approach
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Biostatistican, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Small Sample Improvement over Bayes Prediction under Model Uncertainty
Supervisor: Bertrand Clarke
First Position: Senior Statistician, Canadian HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital
Current Position: Associate Professor, Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Models for the Development of Tumours in Neurofibromatosis 2
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Statistician, Canadian HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
1999
Thesis Title: Bayesian Cross-Validation Choice and Assessment of Statistical Models
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Ph.D. student, Institute of Applied Mathematics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: A Semi Markov Model for Mammographic Detection of Breast Cancer
Supervisor: Andrew Coldman
First Position: Biostatistician, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Dynamic Modelling for Foreign Exchange Rates
Supervisor: Juxin Liu
First Position: Statistican, Equity Security Department in Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: An Orthodox BLUP Approach to Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Supervisor: Bent Jorgensen
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Design Strategies for Repeated MRI Scanning in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials
First Position: Research Biostatistician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Log Hazard Regression
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Department of Health Care & Epidemiology, UBC
Program: MSc