PhD/MSc Alumni
2011
Thesis Title: Dependence Structure for Sums of Dependent Risks
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Research Assistant, SCARL, UBC
Current Position: Research Assitant, UBC Hospital
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Generalized Model of Moments - Theoretical, Econometric and Simulation Studies
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD student, Business Administration; Marketing, Sauder School of Business, UB
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Magnetic resonance imaging lesion count as a surrogate endpoint in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis clinical trials
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Medical Council of Canada, Ottawa
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Identifying interaction effects in high-throughput studies of growth
Supervisor: Jennifer Bryan
First Position: Researcher, James Hogg Research Center, St. Paul's Hospital
Current Position: Data Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Group sequential methods in clinical trial research
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD student, Statistics, UBC
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Evaluation of analysis and approaches to longitudinal ordinal responses in multiple sclerosis clinical trials
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Statistician, Dept. of Medicine (Neurology), UBC
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Dynamic Duration of Load Models
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman, Lang Wu
First Position: PhD student, Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Quantitative Analyst, Google
Program: M.Sc.
2010
Thesis Title: Robust estimation of multivariate scatter in non-affine equivariant scenarios
Supervisor: Ruben H. Zamar
First Position: Decision Support Engineering Analyst, Google Inc.
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Agroclimate Risk Analysis
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C., Nhu Le
First Position: Government visiting lab postdoc, joint at AAFC and SFU
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
Program: Ph.D.