PhD Alumni and Job Placements

"Our Graduate Program draws its purpose and strength from the quality of students we produce. Job placements of our doctoral students has been outstanding."

2023

Xu, BeiBei

Advisor: Ting Zhang

Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist at Wells Fargo

Zhan, DuNa

Advisor: Pengsheng Ji

Initial Job Placement: Software Engineer at Pinterest

Li, BingLin

Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn

Initial Job Placement: Asst. Prof. at NC A&T

Han, KaiWen

Advisor: Yuan Ke

Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist at Wells Fargo

Wang, Yu

Advisor: Pengsheng Ji

Initial Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn

Li, XiaoChuan

Advisor: Yuan Ke

Initial Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn

Li, JiaCheng

Advisor: Datta/Sriram

Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist at Wells Fargo

Cheng, HuiMin

Advisor: Ma/Zhong

Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Boston University
 

2022

Jialin Yang

Advisor: Liang Liu

Initial Job Placement: Statistician at Capital One

Mengyun Yu

Advisor: Justin Strait/Dr. Park

Initial Job Placement: Software Engineer at Google

Shengjie Min

Advisor: Lynne Billard

Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist at Wells Fargo

Zhizhong Lin

Advisor: Nicole Lazar

Initial Job Placement: Statistician at Wells Fargo

Hongzhi Wang

Advisor: Abhyuday Mandal

Initial Job Placement: Statistician at Wells Fargo

Huimin Hu

Advisor: Liang Liu

Initial Job Placement: Wells Fargo

Subham Das

Advisor: Dr. Park

Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist at Travelers

Di Xiao

Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn and Yuan Ke

Initial Job Placement: AI and Data Science Associate at JP Morgan

Mengrui Zhang

Advisor: Ping Ma

Initial Job Placement: Bioinformatics Scientist at Surrozen

Richard Ross

Advisor: Nicole Lazar and Lynne Seymour

Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Virginia

2021

Weifeng Wang

MPLE: Maximum K-subtree Pseudo-likelihood Methods for Phylogeny Reconstruction

Advisor: Liang Liu

Initial Job Placement: Statistician at Walmart Labs

Ilsuk Kang

Statistical and Deep Learning for Data Objects with Non-Euclidean Metrics

Advisor: Cheolwoo Park

Initial Job Placement: PostDoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Hyunnam Ryu

Topological Data Analysis for Studying Brain Functional Connectivity

Advisor: Nicole Lazar

Initial Job Placement: Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University 

Eunsil Seok

Learning Multimodal Data using Deep Neural Networks in Classification

Advisor: Nicole Lazar

Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, NYU Langone Health

Wanxue Zou

Classification and Regression Tree for Symbolic Data

Advisor: Lynne Billard

Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Regeneron

Kristen Knight

Multi-Modal Data Fusion of Neuroimaging Genetics for the Discovery of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology

Advisor: Liang Liu

Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Seung Woo Kwak

Differential privacy and its applications

Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn

Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, NYU Langone Health

Ye Wang

Novel Statistical methods and applications in Quantum computing, Biomedicine, and Networks for Big Data

Advisor: Ping Ma

Initial Job Placement: Statistician, State Farm (ATL)

Honghe Jin

Copula Theory on the Histogram-valued Data

Advisor: Lynne Billard

Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Wells Fargo

Ziyang Ma

New Regularization Methods for Supervised Learning with High-dimensional Data

Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn

Initial Job Placement: Statistician, Wells Fargo

Jinyang Chen

Applications of Emerging Technologies to Statistical Learning

Advisor: Cheolwoo Park

Initial Job Placement: Statistican, Dow Chemical

Juhyung Lee

Some Bayesian Contributions to Small Area Estimation

Advisor: Gauri Datta

Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Florida

2020

Murilo Masaru Da Silva

Dimension Reduction in Time Series Under the Presence of Conditional Heteroscedasticity

Advisors: T.N. Sriram and Yuan Ke

Initial Job Placement: Data Specialist, Ton (Stone Co.), Brazil

Tawanda Benesi

Improved EM-type Algorithms for fitting marginal zero-inflated regression models to clustered data

Advisor: Daniel B. Hall
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Temple University   

Cristian Caranica

Stochastic models for genetic networks

Advisor: Johnathan Arnold

Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor Maine

Hee Cheol Chung

Some contributions to statistical inference on small sample size data: small area estimation and and high-dimension low-sample size data analysis.

Advisor: Gauri Datta

Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Texas A&M

Cheng Meng

Data Reduction in Non-parametric Statistical Analysis and Optimal Transport Methods

Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong

Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, TsingHua University

JC Poythress

Regularization Techniques for Statistical Methods Utilizing Matrix/Tensor Decompositions

Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn

Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire

Ben Washington

An Adapted VAR-EM Imputation of Climate Data and Statistical Downscaling of Temperature, Precipitation, and Solar Radiation in Puerto Rico

Advisor: Lynne Seymour

Initial Job Placement: Statistician, EPA

Jingyi Zhang

Data Fusion for Heterogeneous Data and Its Applications

Advisor: Ping Ma

Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Renmin University

2019

Xiaodong Jiang

Selected topics in network data analysis and phylogenetics
Advisors: Pengsheng Ji & Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Facebook

Arunava Samaddar

Statistical learning methods for group analysis in FMRI data
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, CoinTribe

Rui Xie

Sampling for streaming data
Advisors: T.N. Sriram & Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. of Central Florida

Jiankun Zhu

Divisive hierarchical clustering for interval-valued data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Eli Lilly

Xinlian Zhang

Subsampling and integrating modeling uncertainty in statistical analysis
Advisors: Wenxuan Zhong & Gauri Datta
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

2018

Yaotong Cai

Symbolic data analysis: statistical inference on interval-valued data regression
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Liberty Mutual

Chul Moon

Statistical inference and learning for topological data analysis
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist U.

Wenhao Pan

Model-based clustering with application of copulas for symbolic data
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo

Yiwen Liu

Dimension reduction and multisource fusion for big data with applications in bioinformatics
Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, U. of Arizona

Xiaoxiao Sun

Nonparametric methods for big and complex datasets under a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework
Advisor: Ping Ma
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. of Arizona

Xin Xing

Statistical methods with applications in epigenomics, metagenomics and neuroimaging
Advisor: Wenxuan Zhong
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Harvard U.

Wei Zhang

Optimal designs for the panel mixed logit model
Advisors: John Stufken & Mandal
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Sprint

2017

Mohamad Hasan

Optimal p-value weighting with independent information
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Johnson and Johnson

Adel Bedoui

Bayesian empirical likelihood for linear regression and penalized regression
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Liberty Mutual

Sha Cao

Towards understanding the interplay between cellular stresses and cancer development
Advisor: Xu
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Indiana U.

Stacy Cobb

Optimizing parameters for qtl mapping study designs using next generation sequencing data
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Alexei Ionan

Bayesian framework for developing and evaluating medical screening tests for early disease detection with applications in oncology
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Mathematical Statistician, US Food and Drug Administration

Alex Lyford

Investigating undergraduate student understanding of graphical displays of quantitative data through machine learning algorithms
Advisor: Jennifer Kaplan
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

2016

Hao Tong

Identifying and understanding repetitive patterns in prokaryotic DNA sequences
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Workday

Li-Yu Wang

Regularized aggregation approaches for complex data
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, State Farm

Xianyan Chen

Nonlinear constrained optimization in R and its application for sufficient dimension reduction and variable selection
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: SCC Associate Director, U. of Georgia

Jacob Martin

Topics in zero-inflated count regression: coefficients of determination and marginal models
Advisor: Dan Hall
Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, U. Vermont

Hejiao Hu

A waiting time approach for a disability model
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Vice President, CitiBank

Fei Liu

Cluster analysis for symbolic interval data using linear regression method
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Vice President, Bank of America

Debin Qiu

Grouped variable screening for ultrahigh dimensional data under linear model
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Risk Analyst, JPMorgan Chase

Zhen Yan

A Birth and Death Model for RNA-Seq Data Analysis
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Principal Analyst, Liberty Mutual

Yuanwen Wang

Sufficient dimension folding, variable selection, and its inference
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Jing Zhao

A probabilistic model for gene family evolution
Advisor: Liang Liu
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Sanford Health

2015

Sangjin Kim

Prioritizing hypothesis tests for high throughput data with multiple testing methods
Advisor: Paul Schliekelman
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Bioinformatician, University of Texas at El Paso

Shiyao Wang

Estimating equations for fitting linear regression models describing the impact of partially-observed time-varying predictors on patterns of weight change among participants seeking to lose weight using ecological momentary assessment data
Advisor: Rathbun
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Modeler, Citigroup

Yuan Zhuang

Time series clustering using copula-based higher order Markov process
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Modeler, Wells-Fargo

Adam Jaeger

Composite empirical likelihood: a derivation of multiple non-parametric likelihoods
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, SAMSI/Duke

Lina Liao

Developments of regularized approaches in non-standard paradigm
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells-Fargo

WenHui Sheng

Sufficient dimension reduction and variable selection via distance covariance
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia

Xijue Tan

Optimal designs for generalized linear models
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Senior Statistician, Capitol One

GuanNan Wang

High/ultra-high dimensional single-index models
Advisors: Wang & Jaxk Reeves
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary

Wenbo Wu

Stable and pseudo sufficient dimension reduction
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Oregon Bus.Sch

2014

Linwei Hu

Optimal design of experiments
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells-Fargo

Jin Tang

Generalized quasi-likelihood ratio test for semiparametric analysis of covariance models in longitudinal data
Advisor: Li
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Modeling Analyst, Pactera

Sandra Addo

TBA
Advisors: Jeongyoun Ahn & Dobbin
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Emory

Adrijo Chakraborty

Hierarchical Bayesian methods for survey sampling and other applications
Advisors: Gauri Datta & Abhyuday Mandal
Initial Job Placement: Statistician, NORC U. of Chicago

Yi Chen

Symbolic data regression and clustering methods
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Senior Consultant, Traveler's Insurance

Emmanuel Tuglo

Analysis of univariate and multivariate longitudinal data with censored and missing response with complex covariance structure
Advisor: Dan Hall
Initial Job Placement: Senior Statistician, State Farm

Haileab Hilafu

On dimension reduction and feature selection in high dimensions
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Tennessee

Yaser Samadi

Matrix time series analysis
Advisor: Lynne Billard
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois U.

Nan Zhang

Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion in sufficient dimension reduction and feature screening
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Decision Analyst, JP Morgan Chase

2013

JinAe Lee

Functional magnetic resonance imaging data clustering
Advisor: Cheolwoo Park
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Nat'l Medical Ctr

Jung Ae Lee

Sample integrity in high dimensional data
Advisor: Jeongyoun Ahn
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, Washington U.

Hsin-Ping Wu

Locally optimal designs for generalized linear models with a single-variable quadratic polynomial predictor
Advisor: John Stufken
Initial Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, State Street Corp

Andrew Brown

Bayesian multiple testing under dependence with application to functional magnetic resonance imaging
Advisors: Gauri Datta & Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Clemson U.

XinYu Liu

Sample size determination in multi-class classification and prediction based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Advisor: T.N. Sriram
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Geneticist, Monsanto

Lin Sun

Bayesian factor analysis for fMRI data
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Becton Dickinson

Andrew Bartlett

Extreme value estimators for various non-negative time series with heavy-tail innovations
Advisor: McCormick
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois U.

Nat Kulvanich

Mixture Poisson point process: assessing heterogeneity in EMA analysis
Advisor: Rathbun
Initial Job Placement: Lecturer, Commerce and Accountancy Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2012

Ashley Askew

Numerical optimization and Empty Set Problem in application of empirical likelihood methods
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Postdoc, UGA Forestry

Kun Xu

TBA
Advisor: Ying Xu
Initial Job Placement: Data Scientist, Baidu

YiJie Xue

Applications of empirical likelihood to nonresponse problem and changepoint detection
Advisor: Nicole Lazar
Initial Job Placement: Statistical Modeler, LexisNexis

Yuan Xue

Sufficient dimension folding theory and methods
Advisor: Yin
Initial Job Placement: Assistant Professor, U. Int'l Bus & Econ, Beijing