PhD/Msc Alumni
2009
Thesis Title: Robust Longitudinal Analysis for a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical trial, using optimal weighted estimating equations
Supervisor: John Petkau
First Position: Biostatistician, Vaccine Evaluation Center
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Properties of Empirical and Adjusted Empirical Likelihoods
Supervisor: Jiahua Chen
First Position: PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: M.Sc.
Thesis Title: Evaluating the performamce of Hypothesis Testing in Case-Conrol studies with exposure Misclassification, using Frequentist and Bayesian Techniques
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: M.Sc.
2008
Thesis Title: Finding Functional Groups of Genes using Pairwise Relational Data: Methods and Applications
Supervisor: Jennifer Bryan, Wyeth W. Wasserman
First Position: Statistician in Early Clinical Development, Roche in Basel, Switzerland
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Dynamic Linear Modeling Approaches for Environmental Space-Time Processes
Supervisor: James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C., Nhu Le
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC
Current Position: Revenue Insight Analyst at Google, San Jose, California
Program: Ph.D.
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: Ph.D.
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: Ph.D.
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: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Efficient cross validation for model assessment and comparison
Supervisor: William J. Welch
First Position: Data Analyst, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Linear Clustering with application to single nucleotide plymorphism genotyping
Supervisor: William J. Welch, Ruben H. Zamar
First Position: Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick
Program: Ph.D.