Alumni
Ph.D.
M.Sc.
Ph.D. 1994
| Name: | Weimin Sun |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Multivariate Interpolation with Missing Data and Its Applications |
| Supervisor: | J. V. Zidek |
| First position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics (University of British Columbia) |
| Current Position: |
VP, Institutional Equity Technology Morgan Stanley (New York, USA) |
Ph.D. 1996
| Name: | Xiaochun Li |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Local Linear Regression versus Backcalculation in Forecasting |
| Supervisor: | N.E. Heckman |
| First position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathematiques), ISM (Institute des Sciences Mathematiques), and UQAM (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) |
| Current Position: | Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Indiana University, Dept of Medicine |
| Name: | Xuekun Song |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Some Statistical Models for the Multivariate Analysis of Longitudinal Data |
| Supervisor: | B. Jorgensen |
|
First position: Current position: |
Assistant Professor, York University Professor, University of Michigan |
| Name: | James Jianmeng Xu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Modelling and Inference for Multivariate and Longitudinal Discrete Response Data |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: | Statistical Consultant, Market Knowledge, Inc., Chicago |
| Current Position: | Statistical Consultant, FICO, San Francisco |
Ph.D. 1997
| Name: | Sonia Mazzi |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | The Model Based Approach to Smoothing |
| Supervisor: | P. de Jong |
| First position: | Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, University of Hull, England |
| Current Position: | Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics, University of York, England |
| Name: | Ao Yuan |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Minimally Informative Likelihood Approach to Bayesian Inference and Decision Analysis |
| Supervisor: | B. Clarke |
| First position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Statistics Research Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
| Current Position: | Research Fellow, National Human Genome Center, Howard University, Washington, DC |
Ph.D. 1999
| Name: | Renjun Ma |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | An Orthodox BLUP Approach to Generalized Linear Mixed Models |
| Supervisor: | B. 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 |
Ph.D. 2000
| Name: | Matías Salibián-Barrera |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Contribution to the Theory of Robust Inference |
| Supervisor: | R.H. Zamar |
| First position: | Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, UBC |
| Current Position: |
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Hubert Wong |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Small Sample Improvement over Bayes Prediction under Model Uncertainty |
| Supervisor: | B. Clarke |
| First position: | Senior Statistician, Canadian HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital |
| Current Position: |
Associate Professor Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC |
Ph.D. 2001
| Name: | Steven Xiaogang Wang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Maximum Weighted Likelihood Estimation |
| Supervisor: | J.V. Zidek |
| First position: |
Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Current Position: |
Associate Professor Dept of Math & Statistics, York U |
Ph.D. 2002
| Name: | Rong Zhu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | On Continuous-Time Generalized AR(1) Processes: Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications to Non-normal Time Series |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: |
Sessional lecturer, Faculty of Commerce, UBC |
| Current Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University |
Ph.D. 2003
| Name: | Rachel MacKay ALTMAN |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Hidden Markov Models: Multiple Processes and Model Selection |
| Supervisor: | J. Petkau |
| First position: |
NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Washington |
| Current Position: |
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University |
Ph.D. 2004
| Name: | Weiliang Qiu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Separation Index, Variable Selection and Sequential Algorithm for Cluster Analysis |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: |
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| Name: | Yinshan Zhao |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Modelling and Inference for Discrete and Censored Familial Data |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: | Post-doctoral fellow, Vancouver Hospital |
Ph.D. 2005
| Name: | Isabella Ghement |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Inference in Partially Linear Models with Correlated Errors |
| Supervisor: | N. Heckman |
| First position: |
Statistical Consultant and Trainer, Ghement Statistical Consulting Company |
Ph.D. 2006
| Name: | Md Jafar Ahmed Khan |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Robust Model Selection for High-dimensional datasets |
| Supervisor: | Ruben Zamar |
| First position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Name: | Wei Liu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | The Theory and Methods for Measurement Errors and Missing Data Problems in Semiparametric Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models |
| Supervisor: | Lang Wu |
| First position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto |
Ph.D. 2007
| Name: | Jean-Francois Plante |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Adaptive Likelihood Weights and Mixtures of Empirical Distributions |
| Supervisor: | J. Zidek |
|
First position: Current Position: |
Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Professeur Adjoint, HEC Montréal |
| Name: | Lawrence McCandless |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Propensity Score Analysis for Observational Data |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
|
First position: Current Position |
Research Associate in Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London UK Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University |
| Name: | Juxin Liu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Average Effects for Regression Models with Misspecifications and Diffuse Interaction Models |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
|
First Position: Current Position: |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan |
| Name: | Md. Shahadut Hossain |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Dealing with Measurement Error in Covariates with Special Reference to Logistic Regression Model: A Flexible Parametric Approach |
| Supervisor: | P.Gustafson |
|
First Position: Current Position: |
Post-doctoral Fellow at BC Cancer Agency Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University |
| Name: | Zhong Liu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Combining Deterministic and Statistical Methods in Modeling Environmental Processes |
| Supervisors: | J.Zidek & N.Le |
| First Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Wei Wang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Linear Mixed Models in Functional Regression |
| Supervisor: | N. Heckman |
| First Position: | Research Associate, Department of Statistics, UBC |
Ph.D. 2008
| Name: | Jochen Brumm |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Finding Functional Groups of Genes using Pairwise Relational Data: Methods and Applications |
| Supervisors: | J.Bryan & W.Wasserman |
| First Position: | Statistician in Early Clinical Development, Roche in Basel, Switzerland |
| Name: | Yiping Dou |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Dynamic Linear Modeling Approaches for Environmental Space-Time Processes |
| Supervisors: | J. Zidek & N. Le |
|
First Position: Current Position: |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UBC Statistical Scientist, Ebay |
| Name: | Bela Nagy |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Valid Estimation and Prediction Inference in Analysis of a computer Model |
| Supervisors: | W.Welch & J.Loeppky |
| First Position: | Post-doctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute |
| Name: | Hui Shen |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Efficient cross validation for model assessment and comparison |
| Supervisors: | W.Welch |
| First Position: | Data Analyst, School of Population and Public Health, UBC |
| Name: | Guohua Yan |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Linear Clustering with application to single nucleotide plymorphism genotyping |
| Supervisors: | W.Welch & R. Zamar |
| First Position: | Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick |
| Name: | Mohua Podder |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Robust Genotype Classification Using Dynamic Variable Selection |
| Supervisors: | W.Welch & R. Zamar |
|
First Position: Current position: |
Post-doctoral fellow at Agriculture Canada Biostatistician, Canadian Vigour Centre |
| Name: | Justin Harrington |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Extending Linear Grouping analysis and robust estimators for very large data sets |
| Supervisors: | M.Salibian |
| First Position: | Senior Manager, Hedge Funds, Market Risk Management at Scotia Capital |
Ph.D. 2009
| Name: | Chi Wai Yu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Median Loss Analysis with Applications to Model Selection |
| Supervisors: | B.Clarke |
| First Position: |
| Name: | Michael Regier |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Imperfect data in the generalized linear model framework |
| Supervisors: | P.Gustafson |
|
First Position: Current position |
Postdoctoral fellow ,McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University |
| Name: | Kenneth Chi Ho Lo |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Methods for High Throughput Genomics |
| Supervisors: | R. Gottardo & R. Brinkman |
|
First Position: Current Position |
Postdoctoral Senior Fellow, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington Senior Analyst, eBay Inc. |
Ph.D. 2010
| Name: | Mike Danilov |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Robust estimation of multivariate scatter in non-affine equivariant scenarios |
| Supervisor: | R.H. Zamar |
| First Position: | Decision Support Engineering Analyst, Google Inc. |
| Name: | Mohamadreza Hosseini |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Models for Agroclimate Risk Analysis |
| Supervisor: | J. Zidek and N. Le |
| First Position: | Government visiting lab postdoc, joint at AAFC and SFU |
Ph.D. 2011
| Name: | Tao Wang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Multivariate one-sided tests for multivariate normal and nonlinear mixed effects models with complete and incomplete data |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First Position: |
| Name: | Xuekui Zhang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: |
Mixture Models for Analysing High Throughput Sequencing Data
|
| Supervisor: | R. Gottardo/ K. Murphy |
| First Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Bio Statistics Department |
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M.Sc. 1996
| Name: | Grace Chiu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Effect of Misspecified Response Correlation in Regression Analysis |
| Supervisor: | N. Le and J.V. Zidek |
| First position: | Lecturer, Coquitlam College |
| Current Position: | Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Dept of Statistics and Actuarial Science |
| Name: | Paige Eveson |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | The Not-So-Smoother: A Discontinuity Preserving Smoothing Method |
| Supervisor: | J. Meloche |
| First position: | Research Biometrician, Dept. of Fisheries, Nanaimo, B.C. |
| Name: | Cheryl Garden |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Modeling Zero Inflated Count Data |
| Supervisor: | M. Puterman |
| First position: | Statistician, Canadian Pacific Railway, Calgary, Alberta |
| Name: | Joe Kelly |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Proficiency Testing in Clinical Chemistry |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: | Senior Consultant, Arthur Andersen LLP, Vancouver, BC |
| Current Position: | Director, Strategic Services, /InterVISTAS Consulting Inc, Vancouver |
| Name: | Shoujun Luo |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Markov Generalized Linear Model and Modeling of Epileptic Seizure Data |
| Supervisor: | M. Puterman |
| First position: | Statistical and Programming Analyst, Glassco Park Inc. Surrey, B.C. |
| Name: | Eve Rainville |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Comparison Between Several One-Step M-Estimators of Location and Dispersion in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter |
| Supervisor: | R.H. Zamar |
| First position: | Cryptyologic Group, Communications Security Establishment, Ottawa |
M.Sc. 1997
| Name: | Yulia Dyachkova |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Analysis of Longitudinal Data from the Betaseron Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial |
| Supervisor: | A.J. Petkau |
| First position: | Statistical Analyst, Department of Pathology, Pulmonary Research Lab, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Current Position: |
| Name: | Billy Ching |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Analysis of Longitudinal Data of Mixed Types using a State Space Model Approach |
| Supervisor: | B. Jorgensen |
| First position: | Demonstrator / instructor, University of Hong Kong |
| Name: | Daphne Guh |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Procedures for Multiple Outcome Measures with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials |
| Supervisor: | A.J. Petkau |
| First position: | Statistical Analyst, Health Research Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
| Name: | Man-Po Lai |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Robust Tests on the Equality of Variances |
| Supervisor: | R.H. Zamar |
| First position: | MSc student, Mathematical Finance, UBC |
M.Sc. 1998
| Name: | Kathy Huiqing Li |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Ambient Hourly PM10 in Vancouver |
| Supervisor: | J.V. Zidek |
| First position: | Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Name: | Jaroslaw Harezlak |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bump Hunting in Regression Revisited |
| Supervisor: | N.E. Heckman |
| First position: | Biostatistician, Dept. of Medicine at Indiana University & Purdue University (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. |
| Current position: | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Indiana University, Dept of Medicine |
| Name: | Jeevanantham Rajeswaran |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Some Statistical Properties of Multivariate Proper Dispersion Models |
| Supervisor: | B. Jorgensen |
| First position: | Statistical Analyst, Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| Current Position: |
Senior Biostatistician, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA |
| Name: | Robert St-Aubin |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Smoothing Parameter Selection when Errors are Correlated and Application to Ozone Data |
| Supervisor: | N.E. Heckman |
| First position: | Ph.D. student in Computer Science, UBC |
M.Sc. 1999
| Name: | Marc Vallee |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Bayesian Approach to Case-Control Studies with Errors in the Covariates |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Programmer Statistician, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC |
| Current position: | Biostatistician, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health |
| Name: | Keith Chan |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Semi Markov Model for Mammographic Detection of Breast Cancer |
| Supervisor: | A. Coldman |
| First position: | Biostatistician, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Name: | Ryan Wai Tse |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Extension of the VaR Approach to Portfolio Selection with Non-normal Returns |
| Supervisor: | J. Liu |
| First position: | Statistical Analyst, Workers' Compensation Board, Richmond, BC |
| Name: | Kelly Kwok |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Dynamic Modelling for Foreign Exchange Rates |
| Supervisor: | J. Liu |
| First position: | Statistican, Equity Security Department in Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). |
| Name: | Alexander Smith |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Design Strategies for Repeated MRI Scanning in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials |
| Supervisor: | A.J. Petkau |
| First position: | Research Biostatistician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
| Name: | Fatemah Alqallaf |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Cross-Validation Choice and Assessment of Statistical Models |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Ph.D. student, Institute of Applied Mathematics, UBC |
| Name: | Huiying Sun |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Log Hazard Regression |
| Supervisor: | N.E. Heckman |
| First position: | Statistical Analyst, Department of Health Care & Epidemiology, UBC |
M.Sc. 2000
| Name: | Dieter Ayers |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Methods for Assessing Habitat Preferences |
| Supervisor: | J.V. Zidek |
| First position: | Consultant, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George |
| Current Position: | Consultant, Self-employed, Kamloops, BC |
| Name: | Jochen Brumm |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Models for Two-state Disease Processes with Applications to Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis |
| Supervisor: | A.J. Petkau |
| First position: | Statistical Consultant, SCARL, UBC |
| Current Position: | PhD Candidate, Dept of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Nathan Johnson |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Expanding the Capabilities of Bayesian Regression with Interactions and Smooth Effects |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Statistician, Canadian HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Current Position: |
| Name: | Refik Saskin |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Case-control Studies with Misclassified Exposure: A Bayesian Approach |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Biostatistican, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario |
| Name: | Ryan Woods |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Models for the Development of Tumours in Neurofibromatosis 2 |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: | Statistician, Canadian HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
M.Sc. 2001
| Name: | Dana Aeschliman |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Survival Data Analysis of Patients with Neurofibromatosis (NF2) |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: |
Statistician St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Current Position: | Research assistant, Dept of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Jerome Asselin |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Analysis of the Dynamic Hierarchical Model with Application to a Changepoint Problem |
| Supervisor: | J.V. Zidek |
| First position: |
Statistician St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Name: | Lee Er |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Assessing Informative Drop-out in Models for Repeated Binary Data |
| Supervisor: | A.J. Petkau |
| First position: |
Statistical Analyst St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Name: | Mahbub-ul Latif |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Comparison of Methods for Multivariate Familial Binary Responses |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: |
Ph.D. student Dept. of Statistics, UBC |
| Current Position: |
Assistant professor, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh |
| Name: | Mark Robinson |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Priors for Bayesian Neural Networks |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Statistician, Best Institute, University of Toronto |
| Current Position: |
Bioinformatics Associate MDS Proteomics Inc., Toronto ON |
| Name: | Sijin Wen |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm Comparisons |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: |
Statistical Analyst Department of Biostatistics The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center,USA |
M.Sc. 2002
| Name: | Eishita Ali |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Imputation Methods for Missing Covariates in Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models, with Application in AIDS Studies |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First position: | Statistician, Dhaka Bank, Bangladesh |
| Name: | "Audrey" Qiuyan Fu |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Case Study: Inference for Spatial Random Rainfall Fields |
| Supervisor: | J.V. Zidek |
| First position: | Ph.D. student, University of Washington |
| Name: | Jafar Khan |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Globally Robust Inference for Simple Linear Regression Models with Repeated Median Slope Estimator |
| Supervisor: | R.H. Zamar |
| First position: | Ph.D. student, UBC |
| Name: | Lisa Kuramoto |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Investigating a Variance-Components Approach for Linkage Analysis in Quantitative Traits |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First position: | Statistician, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Hospital |
M.Sc. 2003
| Name: | Mahbubur Rashid Azad Kazi |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Non-additive Effects in Logistics Regression |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Lecturer, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Current Position: |
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology Sylhet, Bangladesh |
| Name: | Eugenia Yu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Analyses of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data in a Randomized Clinical Trial in the Presence of a Lag Time in the Stabilization of Treatment |
| Supervisor: | M. Schulzer |
| First position: | Statistician, HIV Trials Network, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
| Name: | Aihua Pu |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Comparison of Normalization Methods and the Methods for Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes |
| Supervisor: | J. Bryan |
| First Position: | Biostatistician, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
| Name: | Lindsey Turner |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Longitudinal Analyses for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcomes in the PRISMS Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial |
| Supervisor: | A. J. Petkau |
| First position: | Ph.D. student, Dept. of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, England |
| Name: | Lei Han |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Longitudinal Analyses for Ordinal Expanded Disability Status Scale Scores from a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial |
| Supervisor: | A. J. Petkau |
| Name: | Shahadut Hossain |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | A Conservative Prior for Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Biostatistics |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Ph.D. student, UBC |
| Name: | Natalie Thompson |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Unsupervised Feature Selection in Mixture Modelling - A Bayesian Approach |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Bioinformatician. C.H. Best Institute at the University of Toronto |
| Name: | Kunling Wu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Simultaneous Inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Informative Dropout and Missing Covariates |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First position: | St.Paul's Hospital |
| Current Position: |
Biostatistician Harvard School of Public Health Boston, USA |
M.Sc. 2004
| Name: | Kathryn Richardson |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Identifying Possible Bladder Cancer Occupational Carcinogens via a Case-Control Study and JEM |
| Supervisor: | N. Le |
| First position: |
Statistical Analyst, Health Economics Unit, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute |
| Name: | Ruth Yuee Zhang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Extracting XML Data from HTML Respositories |
| Supervisor: | R. H. Zamar |
| First position: |
Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS |
M.Sc. 2005
| Name: | Shijun Song |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models with Dropout and Missing Covariates When the Dropout Depends on the Random Effects |
| Supervisors: | Lang Wu and Harry Joe |
| First position: |
PhD Student Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Current Position: | Google Inc. |
| Name: | Karissa Johnston |
|---|---|
| First position: |
PhD Student Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC |
| Name: | Greta Lozano-Ortega |
|---|---|
| First position: | Statistician, Oxford Outcomes Canada, Ltd. |
| Name: | Michael Marin |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | A Novel Meta-Analysis of Disparate Datasets in Stem Cell Culture |
| Supervisors: | Jenny Bryan |
| First position: | Sessional Instructor, UBC |
| Name: | Mushfiqur Rahman |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Curve Fitting with Roughness Penalty Prior Distributions |
| Supervisors: | P. Gustafson |
| First position: | Data Analyst, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada |
| Name: | Michael Regier |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Does Culture Affect the Location of Death among Cancer Patients in British Columbia?: A Pilot Study Utilizing Standard and Novel Statistical Methods in End-of-Life Research |
| Co-Supervisors: | M.C. Barroetavena and R.H. Zamar |
| First position: |
PhD Student Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Mary Nirupama Royerr |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Effect of Shorter Screening Intervals on the Survival Probability of Women Diagnosed with Breast |
| Supervisors: | Andrew Coldman |
| First position: | Biostatistician, Fisheries Centre, UBC |
| Name: | Xuekui Zhang |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Simultaneous Non-Parametric Constrained Regressions of Unbalanced Longitudinal Data |
| Supervisors: | Nancy Heckman |
| First position: |
Statistician, iCapture Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
M.Sc. 2006
| Name: | Enqing Shen |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Analysis of Onset Times of Features for NF2 Patients |
| Supervisors: | Harry Joe |
| First position: |
Statistician, iCapture Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC |
| Name: | Jesse Raffa |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Longitudinal Analyses of Medication Adherence Data in HIV-Infected Illicit Drug Users |
| Supervisor: | John Petkau and Dr. Brian Conway (Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics) |
| First position: | PhD Student, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo |
| Name: | Steve Kanters |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Pre-Processing of Quantitative Phenotypes from High Throughput Studies |
| Supervisor: | Jenny Bryan |
| First position: | Sessional Instructor, Department of Statistics, UBC |
M.Sc. 2007
| Name: | Wen Zhang |
|---|---|
| First Position: | Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
| Name: | Rong Chu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Adjustment for Exposure Misclassification in Case-Control Studies |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First Position: | Biostatistician, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, U.B.C. |
| Name: | Aline Tabet |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Bayesian Inference in the Multivariate Probit Model |
| Supervisors: | K. Murphy & A. Doucet |
| First Position: | PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Kimberly Ann Fernandes |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Project: Comparing the Validity and Performance of Four Analysis Methods for Small Cluster Randomized Studies with Small Intra-Class Correlations. |
| Supervisor: | J. Petkau |
| First Position: | Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
M.Sc. 2008
| Name: | Luke Bornn |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Statistical Solutions for and from signal processing |
| Supervisor: | A. Doucet & R. Gottardo |
| First Position: | PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Alexandra Romann |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Evaluating the performance of stimulation extrapolation and Bayesian Adjustments for Measurement Error |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First Position: | Statistician, BC Provincial Renal Agency |
| Name: | Jieyun (Erin) Ding |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Mixed Effects Models with Incompletely Observed Data, with application to AIDS studies |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First Position: | Biostatistician, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St.Paul's Hospital, Vancouver |
| Name: | Jing (Jina) Qu |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Composite Likelihood for a Stochastic Volatility Model for Financial Time Series |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First Position: | Senior Research Analyst at WorkSafeBC |
M.Sc. 2009
| Name: | Song Cai |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Application to Phenological Data |
| Supervisor: | N. Newlands/ J. Zidek |
| First Position: | PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Hernan Epstein |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Finding Determinants of the Expected Stocks Returns for the 1993-2007 Period. |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First Position: | Mathematical Statistician for Statistics Canada in Ottawa, ON |
| Name: | Yi Huang |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Properties of Empirical and Adjusted Empirical Likelihoods |
| Supervisor: | J. Chen |
| First Position: |
PhD Student, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Derrick Lee |
|---|---|
| Project Title: | Joint Models for incomplete Longitudinal data and survival data with applications in AIDS studies. |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First Position: | PhD student, School of Population and Public Health, UBC |
| Name: | Ehsanul Karim |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Evaluating the performamce of Hypothesis Testing in Case-Conrol studies with exposure Misclassification, using Frequentist and Bayesian Techniques |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First Position: | PhD student, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Tian Shen |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Formal and Informal Approaches to Adjusting for Exposure Mismeasurement |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First Position: | Biostatistical Analyst, QLT Inc. |
M.Sc. 2010
| Name: | Stephanie Yin-Ting Cheng |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Co-op Program |
| Supervisor: | Co-op Program |
| First Position: | Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Name: | Lucy Yan Cheng |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Wood property relationships and survival models in reliability |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First Position: |
| Name: | Eric Cormier |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Time-Varying Exposure Subject to Misclassification: Bias Characterization and Adjustment |
| Supervisor: | P. Gustafson |
| First Position: | Instructor, Camosun College |
| current position | PhD Student, Department of Statistics, McGill University |
| Name: | Gabriela Espino Hernandez |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Co-op Program |
| Supervisor: | Co-op Program |
| First Position: | Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| Current position: | Biostatistician, BC Provincial Renal Agency |
| Name: | Eric Shing Fu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Regression approaches to estimation of relative risk : application to multiple sclerosis studies |
| Supervisor: | J. Petkau |
| First Position: | Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, UBC |
| current position: | Statistician, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS |
| Name: | Libo Lu |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Approximate methods for joint models in longitudinal studies |
| Supervisor: | J. Chen/ L. Wu |
| First Position: | Analyst, KBM Group |
| Name: | Eva Yihui Luo |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Time-Varying Tail Dependence inFinancial Returns for the Period of1996-2009 |
| Supervisor: | H. Joe |
| First Position: |
| Name: | Rebekah Mohr |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Co-op program |
| Supervisor: | Co-op Program |
| First Position: |
| Name: | Steven Xu Wang |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | Joint Inference for Longitudinal and Survival Data with Incomplete Time-dependent Covariates |
| Supervisor: | L. Wu |
| First Position: | Statistician, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences |
| Name: | Xiaoyin Zhong |
|---|---|
| Thesis Title: | |
| Supervisor: | |
| First Position: | Programmer/Biostatistician at ICES-Queen's |
