Alumni

Duna Zhan

PhD Date: Aug 2023

Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest

Major Professor(s): Pengsheng Ji

Dissertation/Thesis title: Selected Topics in Graph Neural Networks

Mengyun Yu

PhD Date: Jun 2023

Job Placement: Quantitative Analytical Specialist, by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Charlotte, NC

Dissertation/Thesis title: Statistical learning with elastic functional data analysis

Yu Wang

PhD Date: Apr 2023

Job Placement: Initial Job Placement: AI – Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn

Major Professor(s): Pengsheng Ji

Dissertation/Thesis title: Domain Adaptation and Out-of-Distribution Detection on Network Data

Huimin Cheng

PhD Date: Apr 2023

Job Placement: Assistant Professor in Department of Biostatistics at Boston University

Major Professor(s): Wenxuan Zhong, Ping Ma

Dissertation/Thesis title: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Networks

Jiacheng Li

PhD Date: Mar 2023

Job Placement: Initial Job Placement: Wells Fargo

Major Professor(s): Gauri Datta, T.N. Sriram

Dissertation/Thesis title: Forecasting U.S. Unemployment Rates Under A Bayesian Framework And Pseudo-Bayesian small area estimation And Spatial Pseudo-Bayesian small area estimation

Hongzhi Wang

PhD Date: Aug 2022

Job Placement: Initial Job Placement: Biostatistician, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Major Professor(s): Abhyuday Mandal

Dissertation/Thesis title: Optimal Designs – Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Jialin Yang

PhD Date: Aug 2022

Job Placement: First job: Principal Data Scientist at Capital One

Dissertation/Thesis title: Hierarchical Bayesian Inference of Species Trees Using Phylogenomic Data

Subham Das

PhD Date: May 2022

Job Placement: Initial Job Placement: Sr. Associate Data Scientist, Travelers Insurance, USA; Current Affiliation: Quant Modeling Associate, JP Morgan Chase & Co, India

Dissertation/Thesis title: Sparse Multi-Way Canonical Correlation Analysis for High-Dimensional and Low Sample Size Data

Krissy Knight

PhD Date: Aug 2021

Job Placement: Denali Therapeutics

Major Professor(s): Liang Liu

Dissertation/Thesis title: Multimodal data fusion of imaging genetics for the discovery of Alzheimer's Disease pathology

Ziyang Ma

PhD Date: Apr 2021

Job Placement: Initial job placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo

Dissertation/Thesis title: New regularization methods for supervised learning with high-dimensional data

Adrijo Chakraborty

PhD Date: Aug 2014

Job Placement: Initial Job Placement: Statistician, NORC at the U. of Chicago; Current Affiliation: Statistician (Visiting Associate), US Food and Drug Administration

Major Professor(s): Gauri Datta, Abhyuday Mandal

Dissertation/Thesis title: Hierarchical Bayesian methods for survey sampling and other applications

Joshua Baker

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