PhD/Msc Alumni
2013
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Teaching - Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Bayesian Models averaging estimator for binary outcome, treatment and confounders
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
Current Position: Statistician - Heart Lung Innovation
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
Supervisor: Lang Wu
Current Position: Statistics Officer - Ministry of Health, Government of Bhutan
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Analysis of Rating Methods for Team Based Games
Supervisor: John Petkau
Program: M.Sc.
First Position: Professional Statistical Analyst at Sanofi Pasteur
Current Position: Wholesale credit methodology associate at BMO Financial Group - Toronto, ON
Program: M.Sc.
2012
Thesis Title: Modeling latent correlation structures with application to agricultural and environmental science
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C., Arnaud Doucet
First Position: Professor - Harvard University
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Multivariate Extremal Dependence Risk Measures
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Assistant professor, Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Bayesian phylogenetic inference via Monte Carlo methods
Supervisor: Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Arnaud Doucet
First Position: Assistant Professor, Western University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics & Actuarial Science, SFU
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Applications of Penalized Likelihood Methods for Feature Selection in Statistical Modeling
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Two-Step and Likelihood Methods for Joint Models
Supervisor: Lang Wu
First Position: Research Assistant - Dept. of Statistics UBC
Current Position: Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Program: Ph.D. Statistics