Alumni Members

• Amal Agarwal, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Network Modeling and its applications in Complex Large-Scale Systems
  Advisor: Lingzhou Xue
  First Job: Data Scientist, eBay
   
• Jordan Awan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Optimizing Finite Sample Performance of Differential Privacy
  Advisors: Matthew Reimherr and Aleksandra Slavković
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Purdue University
   
• Meridith Bartley, PhD
  Thesis Title: Advances in Ecological Statistics
  Advisor: Ephraim Hanks
  First Job: Statistician, USGS
   
• Kyongwon Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Application of Sufficient Dimension Reduction
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
   
• Hillary Koch, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Multi-Conditional Genomic Data
  Advisor: Qunhua Li
  First Job: Preclinical Statistician, Moderna
   
• Seiyon (Ben) Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Computational Methods for Hierarchical Spatial Models and Ice Sheet Model Calibration
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First Job: Assistant Professor, George Mason University
   
• Mengyan Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Inference with Corrupted Data
  Advisors: Runze Li and Yanyuan Ma
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
   
• Mauricio Nascimento, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Spatial and Multivariate Spatial Extreme Values
  Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
  First Job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
   
• Michelle Nixon, PhD
  Thesis Title: Privacy Preserving Methods in the Era of Big Data: New Methods and Connections
  Advisor: Aleksandra Slavković
  First Job: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University
   
• Jacob Parsons, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Integration and Evaluation of Multiple Data Sources
  Advisors: Le Bao and Xiaoyue Niu
  First Job: Research Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline
   
• Jiawei Wen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-Dimensional Sparse Estimation
  Advisors: Xingyuan Fang and Runze Li
  First Job: Research Scientist, Facebook
   
• Dhanushi Wijeyakulasuriya, PhD
  Thesis Title: Modern Algorithm Based Approaches for Modeling Animal Movement
  Advisors: Ephraim Hanks and Benjamin Shaby
  First Job: Data Scientist, Microsoft
   
• Likun Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Hierarchical Scale Mixtures for Flexible Spatial Modeling
  Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Gregory Bopp, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values with Applications in Climatology
  Advisor: Benjamin Shaby
  First Job: Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
   
• Elena Hadjicosta, PhD
  Thesis Title: Integral Transform Methods in Goodness-of-Fit Testing
  Advisor: Donald Richards
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London
   
• Changcheng Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference
  Advisor: Runze LI
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State
   
• Wanjun Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Data Scientist, LinkedIn
   
• Ardalan Mirshani, PhD
  Thesis Title: Regularization Methods In Functional Data Analysis
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Principle Scientific Computing Consultant, Novartis
   
• Debmalya Nandy, PhD
  Thesis Title: Covariate Information: A Novel Approach To Sufficient Dimension Reduction & Feature Screening For Ultrahigh-dimensional Covariates In Supervised Problems
  Advisor: Francesca Chiaromonte and Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
   
• Jaewoo Park, PhD
  Thesis Title: Computational Methods For Models With Intractable Normalizing Functions
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Yonsei University
   
• Jiayu Peng, PhD
  Thesis Title: New Developments in Design of Experiments
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Google Inc.
   
• Kevin Quinlan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Advances in Design of Computer Experiments
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   
• Frank Shen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis Of Chromosome Conformation Data And Other Omic Data
  Advisor: Qunhua Li and Naomi Altman
  First Job: Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb
   
• Ching-Chi Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
   
• Cheng You, PhD
  Thesis Title: Air Quality and Health Effects: Systematic Investigation
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Wells Fargo Bank
   
• Ling Zhao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Procedures for Feature Screening and Interaction Identification in High-dimensional Data Modelling
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Data Scientist, Wells Fargo Bank
   
• Ge Zhao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Dimension Reduction Model And Applications
  Advisor: Yanyuan Ma
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Portland State University

• Hyun Bin Kang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Functional Manifold Data Analysis
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
   
• Bomin Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: Latent Modeling of Dynamic Social Networks
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp-Freddie Mac
   
• Justin Petrovich, PhD
  Thesis Title: Functional Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Functional Regression
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Saint Vincent College
   
• Joshua Snoke, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Data Privacy Methods For Increasing Research Opportunities
  Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
  First Job: Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation
   
• Chun-Sheng Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Estimation And Inference For Conditional Value-at-risk And Expected Shortfall
  Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
  First Job: Monsanto
   
• Songshan Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: New Statistical Analytic Tools For High Dimensional Data
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Blueshirt Asset Management LLC

• Hyunphil Choi, PhD
  Thesis Title: Confidence Regions and Bands : for Functional Parameters and Hypothesis Testing Inversion
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Senior Manager, Financial Supervisory Service
   
• Panayiotis Constantinou, PhD
  Thesis Title: Testing Separability Of Functional Data
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
   
• Yawen Guan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Reduced-dimensional Non-Gaussian Spatial Models and Statistical Methods for Studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
  Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska
   
• Kevin Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems
  Advisor: Lingzhou Xue
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Western Michigan University
   
• Junli Lin, PhD
  Thesis Title: Copula Versions of RKHS-Based and Distance-Based Criteria
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Penn State University
   
• Jun Song, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction For Functional Data
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte
   
• Eftychia Solea, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Graphical Models For Functional Data
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: University of Cyprus
   
• Jingyi Ye, PhD
  Thesis Title: New Statistical Procedures for Analysis of HIV Data and High Dimensional Data
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Plymouth Rock Assurance

• Jason Bernstein, PhD
  Thesis Title: Inference of Biophysical Diffusion With Transient Binding Using Particle Filters and Stochastic Em
  Advisor: John Fricks
  First Job: Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
   
• Eliana Christour, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Non-iterative Method for Fitting the Single Index Quantile Regression Model with Uncensored and Censored Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, UNC Charlotte
   
• Wanghuan Chu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Feature Screening For Ultra-high Dimensional Longitudinal Data
  Advisor: Runze Li and Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc. 
   
• Han Hao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Modeling The Genetic Architecture Of Complex Traits
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of North Texas
   
• James Russell, PhD
  Thesis Title: Stochastic Models for Individual and Collective Animal Movement
  Advisor: Ephraim Hanks and Murali Haran
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College
   
• Bahaeddine Taoufik, PhD
  Thesis Title: Functional Data Based Inference For High Frequency Financial Data
  Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
  First Job: Lecturer, Fordham University

• Armine Bagyan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Central Limit Theorems for Randomly Modulated Sequences of Random Vectors with Resampling and Applications to Statistics
  Advisor: Arkady Tempelman and Bing Li
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
   
• Youngjoo Cho, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
  Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
   
• Joshua Goldstein, PhD
  Thesis Title: Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Social & Decision Analytics Laboratory, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech
  Current job: Research Assistant Professor, Social & Decision Analytics Laboratory, University of Virginia
   
• Yuan Huang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
   
• Yang Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics
  Advisor: Francesca Chiaromonte
  First Job: Quantitative Associate, Bank of America
   
• Sae Na Park, PhD
  Thesis Title: Classification of Transients by Distance Measures
  Advisor: Jogesh Babu
  First Job: Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Electronics
   
• Weijie Shen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dimensional Analysis in Statistics: Theories, Methodologies and Applications
  Advisor: Dennis Lin
  First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
  Current Position: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
   
• Won Chul Song, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Independence Screening And Test-based Screening Via The Variance Of The Regression Function
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Purdue University
   
• Wei Sun, PhD
  Thesis Title: Feature Screening in Ultra-high Dimensional Survival Data Analysis
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Data Scientist Associate, J.P. Morgan
  Current Position: Quantitative Research Vice President, J.P. Morgan
   
• Jessica Trail, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications
  Advisor: Linda Collins and Runze Li
  First Job: Statistician, Argonne National Lab
  Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Chamberlain Group
   
• Yaqun Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Rutgers University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Rutgers University
   
• Ningtao Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Block Mixture Model To Map Eqtls For Gene Clustering
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas
   
• Zhuying Xu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates
  Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
  First Job: Statistician, KPMG
  Current Position: Product Scientist, Indeed.com
   
• Xiang Zhan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Kernel Machine Methods With Applications to High-throughout Data
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

• Rashmi Bomiriya, PhD
  Thesis Title: Topics in Exponential Random Graph Modeling
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job: Senior Data Scientist, Remote Sensing Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.
  Current Position: Chief Operating Officer, Remote Sensing Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.
   
• Xizhen Cai, PhD
  Thesis Title: Model Selection And Survival Analysis With Application To Large Time-varying Networks
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Williams College
   
• Won Chang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Climate Model Calibration Using High-Dimensional and Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
  Adviser: Murali Haran
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
  Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
   
• Zhe Chen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Hierarchical Bayesian Model Development With Applications In Marketing
  Advisor: Duncan Fong
  First Job: Statistician, Google Inc.
  Current Position: Statistician, Google Inc.
   
• Wen-Yu Hua, PhD
  Thesis Title: Kernel Methods for Neuroimaging Genomewide Association Studies
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, New York University, School of Medicine
  Current Position: Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon
   
• Kwame Kankam, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Parameter Design: A Penalized Likelihood Approach
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Lecturer, Penn State University
  Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
   
• Vishesh Karwa, PhD
  Thesis Title: Likelihood based inference in data privacy and other discrete missing data problems
  Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
  First Job: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University
   
• Prabhani Kuruppumullage Don, PhD
  Thesis Title: Estimation and Model Selection for Block Clustering with Mixtures: A Composite Likelihood Approach
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Francesca Chiaromonte
  First Job: Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
  Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University
   
• Yihan Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Methods in Multiple Testing and Meta-analysis with Applications to the Analysis of Genomic Data
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
  Current Position: Senior manager, AbbVie Inc.
   
• Xiaoyu Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data: New Models, Computing Techniques and Applications
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Senior Statistician, Capital One
  Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo
   
• Wei Luo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Efficient Estimation And Order Determination For Sufficient Dimension Reduction
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, City University of New York, Baruch College
   
• Daisy Philtron, PhD
  Thesis Title: Three Novel Procedures To Control The False Discovery Rate
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University
   
• Haskell Sie, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Aspects Of Computerized Adaptive Testing
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Principal Statistician, Capital One
   
• Lucia Tabacu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Logarithmic Quantile Estimation and Its Applications to Nonparametric Factorial Designs
  Advisor: Michael Akritas and Manfred Denker
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
   
• Hanyu Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Scalar Response with Longitudinal Covariates
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo Bank
  Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo Bank
   
• Xiaotian Zhu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Non-Parametric Finite Multivariate Mixture Models with Applications
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
  Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Coursera

• Seonjin Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: Three Essays On Nonparametric Inference For Longitudinal Data And Time Series Data
  Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Miami University
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Miami University
   
• Xiaoye Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Three Essays on Non-stationary Time Series
  Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
  First Job: Statistician, Union Bank
   
• Jingyuan Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Different Ultrahigh Dimensional Models
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China
   
• Lejia Lou, PhD
  Thesis Title: Thresholded Partial Correlation Approach For Variable Selection In Linear Models And Partially Linear Models
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America
  Current Position: Manager, EY
   
• Marcus Nunes, PhD
  Thesis Title: Analysis of RNA-Seq Data with Excess of Zeros
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
  Current Position: Assistant professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
   
• Wei Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Performance Criteria For Control Charts
  Advisor: Dennis Lin
  First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Fifth Third Bank
  Current Position: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, VP, Wells Fargo 
   
• Yong Ming Jeffery Woo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Optimization and Statistical Estimation for the Post Randomization Method
  Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic and Donald Richards
  First Job: Lecturer, University of Virginia
  Current Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
   
• Ying Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie Inc.
  Current Position: Senior Manager, AbbVie Inc.
   
• Yeying Zhu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

• Pannapa Changpetch, PhD
  Thesis Title: Model Selection for Logistic Regression via Association Rules Analysis
  Advisor: Dennis Lin
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
   
• Guifang Fu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Models for Mapping Genes that Contribute to Shape Variation
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Utah State University
   
• Roman Jandarov, PhD
  Thesis Title: Inference With Implicit Likelihoods For Infectious Disease Models
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First Job: Postdoctoral Senior Fellow, University of Washington
  Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati
   
• Esra Kurum, PhD
  Thesis Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Binary and Continuous Responses: New Models, Statistical Procedures and Applications
  Advisor: Damla Senturk and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University
  Current job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California at Riverside
   
• Kuang-Yao Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: A General Theory For Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction: Formulation And Estimation
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, School of Medicine
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Temple University
   
• Ivan Simeonov, PhD
  Thesis Title: Spatial Point Process Modeling of Viral Infections in Cell Cultures
  Advisor: John Fricks
  First Job: Senior Consultant, Travelers
  Current Position: Senior Director, Travelers
   
• Duy Vu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Models and Algorithms for Large Network Analysis
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job: University of Melbourne
  Current Position: Data Scientist for Conversational AI, Oracle
   
• Qing Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Investigation Of Topics In U-statistics And Their Applications In Risk Estimation And Cross-validation
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Williams College
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
   
• Jialin Xu, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Generalized Linear Model For Peak Calling in ChIP-Seq Data
  Advisor: Yu Zhang
  First Job: Biostatistician, Merck & Co. Inc.
  Current Position: Associate Director, CVM Retinal
   
• Adriano Zambom, PhD
  Thesis Title: Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: University of Campinas
  Current Position: Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge
   
• Wei Zhong, PhD
  Thesis Title: Feature Screening And Variable Selection For Ultrahigh Dimensional Data Analysis
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
  Current Position: Professor, Xiamen University, China

• Muhammad Atiyat, PhD
  Thesis Title: Instrumental Variable Modeling in a Survival Analysis Framework
  Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
  First Job: Associate Statistican, United Nations
   
• Kiranmoy Das, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semi-parametric Bayesian Functional Mapping With Irregular Sparse Longitudinal Data
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Temple University
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India 
   
• Isaac Dialsingh, PhD
  Thesis Title: False Discovery Rates when the Statistics are Discrete
  Advisor: Naomi Altman
  First Job: Lecturer, University of the West Indies
   
• John Hughes, PhD
  Thesis Title: Motor Proteins and Non-Gaussian Areal Data: Advances in Stochastic Modeling and Computation
  Advisor: John Fricks and Murali Haran
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
   
• Jiahan Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Bayesian Lasso, Bayesian Scad And Bayesian Group Lasso With Applications To Genome-wide Association Studies
  Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
  Current Position: Quantitative Investment Analyst, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC
   
• Junyi Lin, PhD
  Thesis Title: Model Misspecification and Feature Screening for Ultrahigh Dimensional Data
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Firth Third Bank
  Current Position: Senior Quantitative manager VP, Fifth Third Bank
   
• Scott Roths, PhD
  Thesis Title: Generalized Stepwise Procedures For Controlling The False Discovery Rate
  Advisor: Jogesh Babu
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Penn State University
   
• Matthew Tibbits, PhD
  Thesis Title: Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  Advisor: Murali Haran and John Liechty 
  First Job: Applied Research Mathematician, Department of Defense
   
• Mina Yoo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Measures Of Agreement In Method Comparison Studies For Intensive Longitudinal Data
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Penn State University
  Current Position: VP, Quantitative Operations Assoc, Bank of America

• Andreas Artemiou, PhD
  Thesis Title: Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Michigan Tech University
  Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK
   
• K. Sham Bhat, PhD
  Thesis Title: Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Data with Applications to Climate Science
  Advisor: Murali Haran
  First Job: Scientist, Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratories
   
• Yeojin Chung, PhD
  Thesis Title: Likelihood-tuned Density Estimator And Its Application To Clustering
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Jia Li
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Kookmin University, South Korea
   
• Tracey Hammel, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Estimation For Finite Mixture Models Using An Exponential Tilt
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
   
• Ruth Hummel, PhD
  Thesis Title: Improving Estimation For Exponential-family Random Graph Models
  Advisor: David Hunter
  First Job:  Instructor, University of Florida
  Current Job:  Academic Ambassador, SAS Institute Inc, JMP Division
   
• Kion Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Recent History Functional Linear Model And Its Extension To Sparse Longitudinal Data
  Advisor: Damla Senturk
  First Job: Penn State University
  Current Position: Team Leader, SK Telecom
   
• Min Hee Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: Thresholding Methods For Hypothesis Testing In Hanova
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, Hana Institute of Technology
   
• Min Kyung Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Manager, Samsung Fire and Marine Ins. Co.
   
• Hyang Min Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Variable Selection and Regularized Mixture Modeling for Clustering
  Advisor: Jia Li
   
• Rong Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multiple Imputation For Missing Items In Multi-themed Questionnaires
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
  Current Position: Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
   
• Xianyun Mao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Density Estimation And Modal Based Method For Haplotyping And Recombination
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
  Current Position: Data Scientist, Lyft
   
• Byran Smucker, PhD
  Thesis Title: By Design: Exchange Algorithms to Construct Exact Model-Robust and Multiresponse Experimental Designs
  Advisor: Enrique del Castillo and James Rosenberger
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Miami University
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Miami University
   
• Jianping Sun, PhD
  Thesis Title: Composite Likelihood in Long Sequence Data
  Advisr: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro
   
• Huei-Wen Teng, PhD
  Thesis Title: Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches For Financial Option Pricing
  Advisor: John Liechty
  First Job: Assistant Professor, National Central University
  Current position: Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
   
• Lu Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Bayesian Analysis Of Multivariate Regime Switching Covariance Model
  Advisor: John Liechty
  First Job: Quantitative Analyst, Google Inc.

• Yuexiao Dong, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Temple University
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Temple University
   
• Sasiprapa Hiriote, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multivariate Concordance Correlation Coefficient
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  First Job: Faculty, Silpakorn University
   
• Mian Huang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Techniques In Finite Mixture Of Regression Models
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University
   
• Bo Kai, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling
  Advisor: David Hunter and Runze Li
  First Job: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
  Current Position: Associate Professor, College of Charleston
   
• Juyoun Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Sampling Contingency Tables Given Sets Of Marginals And/or Conditionals In The Context Of Statistical Disclosure Limitation
  Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
  First Job: Manager, Credit Risk MGMT Division
   
• Shu-Min Liao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Heteroscedastic Unbalanced Nested Designs And Fully Nonparametric Analysis Of Covariance
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Amherst University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Amherst University
   
• Yuejiao Jiang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Estimation And Forecasting Methodologies For Nonparametric Regression Models Via Dynamic Linear Models
  Advisor: Runze Li
   
• Virginia (Jean) Recta, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Model-based Analysis of Semicontinuous Spatial Data
  Advisor: Murali Haran and James Rosenberger  
  First Job: Mathematical Statistician, Food and Drug Administration
   
• Megan Romer, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Statistical Analysis of Monotone Incomplete Multivariate Normal Data
  Advisor: Donald Richards
  First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University
   
• Yiyun Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Regularization Parameter Selection for Variable Selection in High-dimensional Modelling
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First job: Senior Biostatistician, Novartis AG
  Current Position: Executive Director, Autolus Lt

• Tatiana Benaglia, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Estimation In Multivariate Finite Mixture Models
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University
   
• Trent Gaugler, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Models for Crossed Mixed Effects Designs
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Research Associate, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
   
• Guodong Hui, PhD
  Thesis Title: Matrix Distances With their Application to Finding Directional Deviations from normality in High-Dimensional Data
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Biostatistician, Pharmanet Development Group
  Current Position: Principal Biostatistician, Sanofi
   
• Yan Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Local Modeling For Data With Autocorrelations
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Senior Statistician, Capital One
   
• Daeyoung Kim, PhD
  Thesis Title: Mixture Inference At The Edge Of Identifiability
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
  Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
   
• Yu Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonlinear Dimension Reduction in Feature Space
  Advisor: Bing Li
   
• Wei Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: A General Class of Agreement Coefficients for Categorical and Continuous Responses
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  Current Position: Senior Research and Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
   
• Junjia Zhu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Essays on Monitoring Profile Data
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Penn State University

• Bing Han, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Bayesian Approach To False Discovery Rate For Large Scale Simultaneous Inference
  Advisor: Rana Arnold
  First Job: Associate Statistician, Rand Corporation
  Current Position: Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation
   
• Hyekyung  Jung, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
   
• Doh Yung Kang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Causal Inference By Semiparametric Imputation
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: Research Associate, Penn State University
   
• Byungtae Seo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Doubly-smoothed Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
   
• Zhihui Tang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Three Topics On Dimension Reduction
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Biostatistician, PPD
   
• Yang Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Varying-Coefficient Models: New Models, Inference Procedures, and Applications
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Associate Program Manager, Citi Cards
   
• Hong Xu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Contributions to Adaptive Web Sampling Designs
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Bank of America
   
• Jingyun Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Measurement of Agreement for Categorical Data
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  First Job: Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rush University
   
• Weixin Yao, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Using Mixtures And Modes Of Mixtures In Data Analysis
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
  Current Position: Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
   
• Derek Young, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Study of Mixtures of Regressions
  Advisor: Dave Hunter
  First Job: Research Scientist, Bechtel Bettis Inc.
  Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
   
• Zhe Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: New modeling Procedures for Functional Data in Computer Experiments
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Bank of America

• Yi-Ju Chen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robustness Properties Of Generalized Correlation Coefficients, With Applications To Cross-over Designs
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  First Job: National Chung Chen University
   
• John Dziak, PhD
  Thesis Title: Penalized Quadratic Inference Functions For Variable Selection In Longitudinal Research
  Advisor: Runze Li
  First Job: Penn State University
  Current Position: Research Associate Professor, Penn State University
   
• Hyunsook Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Two Topics: A Jackknife Maximum Likelihood Approach to Statistical Model Selection and a Convex Hull Peeling Depth Approach to Nonparametric Massive Multivariate Data Analysis with Applications
  Advisor: Jogesh Babu
  First Job: Penn State University
   
• Makhtar Sarr, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Nonparametric Inference Based On The Multivariate Trimmed Mean
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates

• Steven Gang Bai, PhD
  Thesis Title: Cluster Analysis Of High Dimensional Data And Dimension Reduction For Regression
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  Current Position: Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
   
• Shaoli Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dimension Reduction In Regression
  Advisor: Bing Li
  First Job: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
   
• Fengjuan Xuan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Finite Mixture Models When Training Samples Are Available
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  Current Position: Senior Director, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
   
• Xiaojiang Zhan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Bayesian Semiparametric Inference Based On Ranks
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Biometrician, Merck & Co.
  Current Position: Director, Celgene Corporation

• Efi Antoniou, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Imputation And (Mid-) Rank Tests For Mixed Effects Models With Missing Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Lecturer, Frederic Institute of Technology
  Current Position: Supervisor Data Analytics, Hellenic Bank
   
• Rui Ding, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multiple Response Ridge Analysis
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Genetech
   
• Mike Kwanisai, PhD
  Thesis Title: Estimation In Link -tracing Designs With Subsampling
  Advisor: Steven Thompson 
  First Job: Survey Statistician, NORC
  Current Position: Senior Statistician, Westat
   
• Haiyan Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Testing In Multifactor Heteroscedastic Anova And Repeated Measures Designs With Large Number Of Levels
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First job: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
  Current Position: Professor, Kansas State University
   
• Ke Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Using The Poisson Kernel In Model Building And Selection
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Statistician, Cytokinetics

• Shu-Chuan Chen, PhD
  Thesis Title: Clustering Sequences Using Mixture Trees
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: National Health Research Institute
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Idaho State University
   
• Hwan Chung, PhD
  Thesis Title: Latent-class Modeling With Covariates
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  Current Position: Professor, Korea University,South Korea
   
• Hakan Demirtas, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multiple Imputation For Nonignorable Dropout Using Bayesian Pattern-mixture Models
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
  Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
   
• Ryan Elmore, PhD
  Thesis Title: Semiparametric Analysis Of Finite Mixture Models With Repeated Measures
  Advisor: Thomas Hattmansperger
  First Job: Australia National University
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Denver
   
• Ofer Harel, PhD
  Thesis Title: Strategies For Data Analysis With Two Types Of Missing Values
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: VA Puget Sound Health Care System
  Current Position: Professor, University of Connecticut
   
• Jiawei Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Fitting Of Multinomial Models Based On Assessment Of Model Building Errors
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
   
• James McDermott, PhD
  Thesis Title: Low-storage Sequential Methods For Data Mining And The Analysis Of Massive Datasets
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin and Jogesh Babu
  First Job: Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb
  Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Quadient
   
• Surajit Ray, PhD
  Thesis Title: Distance-based Model-selection With Application To The Analysis Of Gene Expression Data
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Current Position: Reader, University of Glasgow, UK
   
• HenSiong Tan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Variance estimation with astronomical measurement errors
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
   
• Jiping Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: NPMLE In Estimating The Number Of Expressed Genes Using Est Data While Accounting For Measurement Error
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  Current Position: Professor, Northwestern University
   
• Lan Wang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Testing In Heteroscedastic ANOVA With Large Number Of Levels And In Nonparametric ANCOVA
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  Current Position: Professor, University of Miami
   
• Diya Zhang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Profiling Of Gene Expression During Late Erythropoiesis
  Advisor: Don Wojchowski

• KB Boomer, PhD
  Thesis Title: Parameterization And Estimation Of The Multivariate Normal Model In The Presence Of Incomplete And Censored Data For The Methacholine Challenge
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  First Job: Associate Director, Penn State Statistical Consulting
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Bucknell University
   
• Changxuan Mao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Mixture Models For Species And Population Size Estimation
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
   
• Jerry Maples, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Semiparametric Mixed Effects Model With Marginal Means Structure
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Mathematical Statistician, Census Bureau
  Current Position: Principal Researcher, Census Bureau
   
• Michelle Schaffer, PhD
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Penn State University, College of Medicine
   
• Laura Simon, PhD
  Thesis Title: Paired Two-by-two Crossover Models For Complete, Missing-at-random, And Nonignorable Missing Data
  Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
  First Job: Penn State University, College of Medicine

• Isidro Cruz Medina, PhD
  Thesis Title: Almost Nonparametric And Nonparametric Estimation In Mixture Models
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
   
• Haihong Li, PhD
  Thesis Title: Improving Point Estimation For Models With Many Nuisance Parameters
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation
  Current Position: Senior Director of Biostatistics, Sage Therapeutics
   
• Paul Mosquin, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Analysis Of Bayesian Finite Mixtures And Discrete Choice Models
  Advisor: Steven Arnold and Duncan Fong
  First Job: Res. Statistician, Research Triangle Institute
  Current Position: Senior Statistician, RTI International
   
• Chanseok Park, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Statistical Procedures Based On Quadratic Inference Function
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Clemson University
  Current Position: Professor, Pusan National University, South Korea
   
• Sonia Rodriguez, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Data Mining Of Land-cover Maps For Characterization, Classification And Comparison Of Landscapes And Watersheds Of Pennsylvania
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil

• Senin Banga, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Risk Analysis Of Benchmark Dose For Continuous Response And Sensitivity To Model Specification
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
  First Job: Minitab, Senior Statistician
   
• Mark Leeds, PhD
  Thesis Title: Error Structures For Dynamic Linear Models: Single Source Versus Multiple Source
  Advisor: Keith Ord
  First Job: Bear Stearns, Wall Street
  Current Position: Statistical Consultant, Statematics
   
• Richard McGrath, PhD
  Thesis Title: Dispersion Effects In Unreplicated Fractional Factorials
  Advisor: Dennis Lin
  First Job: Asst Professor, Bowling Green State University
  Current Position: Professor, Bowling Green State University
   
• Martin Felix Medina, PhD
  Thesis Title: Contributions To The Theory Of Adaptive Sampling
  Advisor: Steven Thompson
   
• Mustafa Nadar, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multivariate Sign And Rank Methods Based On The Oja Criterion Function
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Gebze Institute, Turkey
  Current Position: Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
   
• Jennifer Pittman, PhD
  Thesis Title: Adaptive Splines and Genetic Algorithms For Optimal Statistical Modeling
  Advisor: C.R. Rao
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat'l Institute of Statistical Science
  Current Position: Professor, University of Miami
   
• Haritini Tsangari, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Models And Procedures For Nonlinear Analysis Of Covariance With Independent And Dependent Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  Current Position: Professor, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
   
• Recai Yucel, PhD
  Thesis Title: Computational Tools For Missing Values In Multivariate Longitudinal And Clustered Data
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow
  Current Position: Professor, University at Albany, SUNY

• Scott Beattie, PhD
  Thesis Title: Contributions To The Design And Analysis Of Experiments: Computer Experiments And Supersaturated Designs
  Advisor: Dennis K. Lin
  First Job: Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co.
  Current Position: Senior Research Advisor, Eli Lilly & Co.
   
• Chang-Tai (George) Chao, PhD
  Thesis Title: Adaptive Sampling Designs
  Advisor: Steven Thompson
  First Job: National Cheng Kung University, Assistant Professor
  Current Position: Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University
   
• Arthur Dryver, PhD
  Thesis Title: Adaptive Sampling Designs And Associated Estimators
  Advisor: Steven Thompson
  First Job: Price Waterhouse Coopers
  Current Position: Associate Professor, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
   
• Yunling Du, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Fully Nonparametric Analysis Of Covariance Method For Censored Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Columbia University, Biostatistics, Assistant Professor
   
• Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar, PhD
  Thesis Title: Multiple Edit/multiple Imputation For Multivariate Continuous Data
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: RAND Corporation
  Current Position: Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation
   
• Maren Olsen, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Two-part Random -effects Model For Semicontinuous Longitudinal Data
  Advisor: Joseph Schafer
  First Job: Biostatistician, VA Health Services R&D, and Assistant
  Current Position: Director, VA Medical Center, Durham, and Associate Professor, Duke University

• Suzanne Dubnicka, PhD
  Thesis Title: Rank-based Procedures For Combined Paired And Unpaired Data
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
   
• John O'Gorman, PhD
  Thesis Title: General Mixed Models With Censored Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Eli Lilly & Co.
  Current Position: Director of Biostatistics, Biogen
   
• Peiyong (Annie) Qu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay and Bing Li
  First Job: Cleveland Clinic
  Current Position: Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
   
• Yong-xin (George) Yang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Inference For Symmetries Based On Ranks
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp, Philadelphia

• William Cooper, PhD
  Thesis Title: Inferential Techniques For Landmark Data
  Advisor: Colin Goodall and Keith Ord
  First Job: Health Process Management
  Current Position: Reliability Assurance Team Manager, Autoliv
   
• Brenda Gaydos, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Semiparametric Likelihood Method And Its Extensions With Application To Errors-in-variables
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Eli Lilly and Company
  Last Position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Eli Lilly & Co.
   
• Yong Lin, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Likelihood Ratio Test Of Mixture Hypotheses And The Tube Volume Problem
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Clinical Trials Organization
  Current Position: Professor, Rutgers University
   
• Ramani Pilla, PhD
  Thesis Title: Improving The Rate Of Convergence Of Em In High-dimensional Finite Mixtures
  Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay
  First Job: National Institutes of Health
   
• Maria Tipa, PhD
  Thesis Title: An Evaluation Of The Usefulness Of Weights In The Presence Of Nonignorable Dropout
  Advisor: Susan Murphy

• Erik Pulkstenis, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Mixed Effects Model For The Analysis Of Categorical Longitudinal Data Subject To Informative Dropout
  Advisor: Richard Landis and Thomas Ten Have
  First Job: CL McIntosh and Associates
  Current Position: Vice President, Data and Statistical Sciences, AbbVie
   
• Matilde Sanchez, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Analysis Of Repeated Measures
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Merck Research Lab
  Current Position: Principal Statistical Consultant, SanchezKam LLC
   
• Shailaja Suryawanshi, PhD
  Thesis Title: Analysis Of High-dimensional Data In Problems Of Regression And Discrimination, With Applications To Size And Shape Analysis
  Advisor: C. R. Rao
  First Job: Merck Research Lab
  Current Position: Director, Merck & Co.
   
• Liwen Xi, PhD
  Thesis Title: Measuring Goodness-of-fit In The Analysis Of Contingency Tables With Mixture-based Indices: Algorithms, Asymptotics And Inference
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Merck Research Lab
   
• Yanling Zuo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Development Of The Likelihood Ratio Test In The Cancer Risk Model: Limiting Distributions, Testing Theory
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: University of Pittsburgh
  Current Position: Senior Advisory Statistician, Minitab

• Tzuwei Cheng, PhD
  Thesis Title: Regression Models For Ordinal, Partially Ordinal, Scaled, And Partially Scaled Discrete Response Variables
  Advisor: Clifford C. Clogg
   
• Hee-Jeong Kang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Bootstrapping Autoregressive Processes With Infinite Variance
  Advisor: Jogesh babu
   
• Scott Pammer, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation And Comparison Of Response Curves
  Advisor: Steven Arnold and Duncan Fong
  First Job: Minitab
  Current Position: Senior Advisory Statistician, Minitab
   
• John Tomick, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Convergence Of The Nelder-mead Simplex Algorithm For Unconstrained Stochastic Optimization
  Advisor: Steven Arnold and Russel Barton
  First Job: Air Force Academy
  Current Position: Department of State, Office of the Secretary of Defense

• Principal Ndloyu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Designs For Calibration Using Nonlinear Models
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: University of Zimbabwe
   
• Omer Ozturk, PhD
  Thesis Title: Minimum Distance Estimation
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Portland State University
  Current Position: Professor, Ohio State University

• George Anderson, PhD
  Thesis Title: Generalized Wilcoxon Methods
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
  Current Position: Executive Medical Science Liaison, AstraZeneca
   
• Michael LaValley, PhD
  Thesis Title: Extensions Of The Lynden-bell-woodroofe Method For Truncated Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University
  Current Position: Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
   
• Scott Preston, PhD
  Thesis Title: Sign-scored Methods For Testing Order-restricted Models In Thec-sample Design
  Advisor:Thomas Ryan
  First Job: SUNY Oswego
   
• Richard Waterman, PhD
  Thesis Title: Projective Score Methods
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
  Current Position: Practice Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

• Srabashi Basu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Model-based Estimation Of Attributable Risk For Categorical Data
  Advisor: Richard Landis
  First Job: Pharmaco Dyn Research
  Current Position: Professor, Great Learning
   
• Nandini Kannan, PhD
  Thesis Title: Estimation Of Directions Of Arrival In Signal Processing Models
  Advisor: C. R. Rao
  First Job: University of Texas
  Current Position: Executive Director, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
   
• Raul Macchiavelli, PhD
  Thesis Title: Likelihood-based Procedures And Order Selection In Higher Order Antedependence Models
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
  First Job: Louisiana State University
  Current Position: Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
   
• Eva Petkova, PhD
  Thesis Title: General Procedures For Analysis Of Collapsibility In Generalized Linear Models
  Advisor: Clifford Clogg
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  Current Position: Professor, NYU Langone
   
• Anne Torbeyns, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Goodness Of Fit Tests For Regression With Censored Data
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
  First Job: Bristol-Myers Squibb

• Ayanendranath Basu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Minimum Disparity Estimation In The Continuous Case: Efficiency, Distributions, Robustness And Algorithms
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: University of Texas
  Current Position: Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
   
• Clint Coakley, PhD
  Thesis Title: Advances In The Study Of Breakdown And Resistance
  Advisor: James Hettmansperger
  First Job: Virginia Tech
   
• Myung Hwi Lee, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust M-estimation Under Type I.5 Censoring And Its Application To Accelerated Life Testing
  Advisor: Michael Akritas
   
• Madhuchhanda Mazumdar, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Combination Of Tests And Publication Bias In Meta-analysis
  Advisor: C.R. Rao
  Current Position: Director, Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science, Mount Sinai Health System
   
• Regis Serinko, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Asymptotics Of Univariate K-mean Andk-median Clustering Under Some Nonregular Conditions
  Advisor: Jogesh Babu
  First Job: Penn State University
  Current Position: Founder, iMathTutor
   
• Hongjie Zheng, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Conditional Approach To Multiple Time Series Modeling
  Advisor: Keith Ord
  First Job: Ciba Geigy
  Current Position: VP, Statistical Science and Programming, Allergan

• Michael Brown, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Framework For Evaluating Interim Analysis Rules In Clinical Trials: A Decision Theoretic Approach
  Advisor: Charles Antle
  First job: Bristol-Myers
   
• Jengtung Chiang, PhD
  Thesis Title: Sequential Designs For The Linear Logistic Model
  Advisor: James Rosenberger
  First Job: Ciba Geigy
  Current Position: Associate Professor, NCCU College of Commerce, Taiwan
   
• Min Deng, PhD
  Thesis Title: Differential Geometry In Statistical Inference
  Advisor: C. R. Rao
  First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
  Current Position: Professor, Maryville University
   
• Terry Kissinger, PhD
  Thesis Title: Using Distribution-function Metrics To Measure The Rate Of Convergence Of The Transient Distribution To The Steady-state Distribution In An M/M Queue
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
   
• Zhijun Liu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Contributions To Nonparametric Estimation And Robust Estimation
  Advisor: C.R. Rao
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University

• William (Dave) Furman, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Moment Matrix Approach To The Inferential Problems Of Normal Mixtures
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Babson College
   
• John Grego, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Extensions Of The Random-effects Rasch Model
  Advisors: Bruce Lindsay and Clifford Clogg
  First job: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
  Current Position: Professor, University of South Carolina
   
• Keith Johnson, PhD
  Thesis Title: Higher-order Antedependence Models
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
  First Job: Hampton College
   
• Debasis Kundu, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Results In Estimating The Parameters Of Exponential Signals In Noise
  Advisor: C. R. Rao
  First Job: University of Texas
  Current position: Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
   
• Joshua Naranjo, PhD
  Thesis Title: Bounded-influence Regression: A Modified Wilcoxon Procedure
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Western Michigan University
  Current Position: Professor, Western Michigan University

• Marianthi Markatou, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Bounded Influence Tests In Linear Models
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: University of Iowa
  Current Position: Professor, SUNY Buffalo
   
• Kathryn Roeder, PhD
  Thesis Title: Method Of Spacings For Semiparametric Inference
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Yale University
  Current Position: Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

• Subhash Lele, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Study Of Estimation Procedures For Spatial Processes
  Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
  First Job: John Hopkins University|
  Current Position: Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
   
• Ernst Linder, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Inference In The Linear Errors-in-variables Model Using The Bootstrap, With Applications In Environmental Risk Analysis
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
  First Job: University of New Hampshire
  Current Position: Professor, University of New Hampshire
   
• Kenneth Suman, PhD
  Thesis Title: A James-Stein Type Estimator Of A Distribution Function
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
  First Job: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current Position: Retired

No PhD Graduates

• Mark Becker, PhD
  Thesis Title: Analysis Of Discrete Data Using Log-multiplicative Models And Other Log-nonlinear Models (Contingency Tables, Frequency Data, Association Models)
  Advisor: Clifford Clogg
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
  Current Position: President, Georgia State University
   
• David Burn, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Effect Of Time Series Outliers On The Sample Autocorrelation Coefficient (Arima, Moments, Lack Fit)
  Advisor: Keith Ord
  First Job: IMSL
  Current Position: President, Improvelt!, and Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University
   
• Sami Gabbara, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nested And Crossed Repeated Measures Models
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
  First Job: University of Basra
   
• Myron Hlynka, PhD
  Thesis Title: Optimality For A Class Of Perishable Inventory Policies Under Stochastic Demand (Dynamic Programming, Blood Banks)
  Advisor: Frank Haight
  First Job: University of Alberta
  Current Position: Professor, University of Windsor, Canada

• Mara Tableman, PhD
  Thesis Title: Two-sample Procedures Based On One-sample Linear Signed Rank Statistics
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Penn State University
  Current Position: Professor, Portland State University

• Jon Lemke, PhD
  Thesis Title: Estimation And Testing For Two-way Contingency Tables Within Order-restricted Parameter Spaces
  Advisor: William Harkness
  Current Position: Chief Biostatistician, Genesis Health System
   
• Rafid Abdul-Razak, PhD
  Thesis Title: Power Series Distributions In Mathematical Statistics And Applied Probability
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College, Qatar

• James Aubuchon, PhD
  Thesis Title: Rank Tests In The Linear Model: Asymmetric Errors
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Ohio State University

• Philip Byrne, PhD
  Thesis Title: The Analysis Of Repeated Measurements Through Time
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
  First Job: Smith College
   
• John Peterson, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Some Problems In Survival Data Analysis With Covariates
  Advisor: Charles Antle
  Current Position: Senior Director, GalaxoSmithKline

• Terry King, PhD
  Thesis Title: Sample Size Determinations For Some Reliability Problems
  Advisor: Charles Antle and Robert Hultquist
   
• Edward Markowski, PhD
  Thesis Title: Simple Estimation Procedures Based On Rank Tests For The One- And Two-sample Location Models
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
   
• Richard Schmoyer, PhD
  Thesis Title: Shrinking Techniques In Robust Regression
  Advisor: Steven Arnold
   
• Lewis Shoemaker, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Estimates And Tests For The One-sample Scale Model With Applications To Variance Component Models
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  Current Position: Professor, Millersville University

• Kuo-Sheuan Cheng, PhD
  Thesis Title: On Weighted Least Squares Rank Estimates
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger

• Bharat Dev Kapur, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Concepts Of Stochastic Independence And Their Implications With Characterizations And Simulations Of The Related Models
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• Mohamed Mahfoud, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Study Of Weighted Distributions And Size-biased Sampling
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• Jessica Utts, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Robust Class Of Tests And Estimates For Multivariate Location Based On Ranks
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger

• Yunkee Ahn, PhD
  Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Multi-server Queuing Systems With Switching Rules
  Advisor: Frank Haight
   
• Charles Taillie Jr., PhD
  Thesis Title: The Mathematical Statistics Of Diversity And Abundance
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• Del Scott, PhD
  Thesis Title: Unified Computational Methods For Analyzing Categorical Data
  Advisor: William Harkness
   
• David Wahrenberger, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Bayesian Procedure Using A Marginal Prior In The Location And Scale Parameter Family
  Advisor: Charles Antle

• Richard Feldmann, PhD
  Thesis Title: Applications Of Ridge Regression To Variance Component Estimation
  Advisor: Robert Hultquist
   
• Dennis Friday, PhD
  Thesis Title: A New Multivariate Life Distribution
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• Ronald Schrader, PhD
  Thesis Title: Robust Inference Based On M-estimates In The Linear Model
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
   
• James Thomas, PhD
  Thesis Title: Interval Estimation And Related Topics In The Unbalanced Case Of The One-way Random Effects Model
  Advisor: Robert Hultquist

• Joseph McKean, PhD
  Thesis Title: Tests Of Hypotheses Based On Ranks In The General Linear Model
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
   
• Makarand  Ratnaparkhi, PhD
  Thesis Title: Certain Damage Models And Related Characterizations Of Statistical Distributions
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil

• Richard Katz, PhD
  Thesis Title: A Stochastic Process Defined On A Markov Chain: Properties And An Application To Meteorology
  Advisor: Frank Haight
   
• George Policello II, PhD
  Thesis Title: Adaptive Robust Procedures For The One-sample Location Problem
  Advisor: Thomas Hettmansperger
  First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
   
• Alfred Rademaker, PhD
  Thesis Title: Choosing Between Two Location And Scale Parameter Models And Related Topics
  Advisor: Charles Antle

No PhD Graduates

• Gunwant Marathe, PhD
  Thesis Title: On The Ergodic Theory Of Positive Operators
  Advisor: Lawrence Klimko and William Harkness
   
• Howard Rockette, PhD
  Thesis Title: Statistical Inference For The Three Parameter Weibull Distribution
  Advisor: Charles Antle

• Timothy Killeen, , Ph.D. 1971
  Thesis Title: Bivariate Tests For Location And Their Bahadur Efficiencies
  Advisor: William Harkness and Thomas Hettmansperger

• Erwin Atzinger, PhD
  Thesis Title: Mixed Effects Model Estimation - Optimal Properties
  Advisor: Robert Hultquist
   
• Ashok Godambe, PhD
  Thesis Title: Some Problems Related To The Study Of Random Matrices
  Advisor: William Harkness
   
• George Hoetzl, PhD
  Thesis Title: Confidence Intervals For Cross-product Ratios And The 2 X 2 X 2 Contingency Table
  Advisor: William Harkness
   
• Konanur Janardan, PhD
  Thesis Title: On A Class Of Multivariate Hypergeometric Models
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• William Stiteler III, PhD
  Thesis Title: Measurement Of Spatial Patterns In Ecology
  Advisor: Ganapati Patil
   
• Peter Tryon, PhD
  Thesis Title: Nonparametric Tests Of Homogeneity Against Restricted Alternatives In A One-way Classification
  Advisor: Thomas Hattmansperger

1964

• Edward Bolger, PhD
  Thesis Title: Exponential Distributions
  Advisor: William Harkness

1963

• Om Srivastava, PhD
  Thesis Title: Asymptotic Behavior Of Certain Functions Of Order Statistics
  Advisor: James Bartoo