Graduated PhD's and Postdocs

Recent dissertations are here. Most, maybe all, of the older dissertations are available from Proquest

• Yunting Sun, graduated 2011, Ph.D.
  On latent systemic effects in multiple hypotheses
  Went to Knight Capital Group
• Su Chen, graduated 2011, Ph.D.
  Consistence and convergence rate of Markov chain quasi-Monete Carlo with examples
  Went to Two Sigma
• Justin Dyer, graduated 2010, Ph.D.
  Visualizing and modeling joint behavior of categorical variables with a large number of levels
  Went to Waterfront International limited in Toronto
• Ya Xu graduated 2010, Ph.D.
  Semi-supervised learning on graphs -- a statistical approach
  Went to Microsoft to work on Bing.
• Sarah Emerson, graduated 2009, Ph.D Small sample performance and calibration of the empirical likelihood method Went to R. Betensky's lab at Harvard School of Public Health, for postdoc.
• Patrick Perry, graduated 2009, Ph.D
  Cross-validation for unsupervised learning
  Went to P. Wolfe's lab at Harvard EE, for postdoc. Web page
• Yiyuan She, graduated 2008, Ph.D
  "Sparse regression with exact clustering"
  Went to Florida State University, Dept of Statistics
• Seth Tribble, graduated 2007, Ph.D
  "Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms using completely uniformly distributed driving sequences"
  Went to Morgan-Stanley
• Ruixue Liu, graduated 2005, Ph.D
  "New findings of functional anova with applications to computational finance and statistics"
  Went to Goldman-Sachs
• Xiaohu Zhang graduated 2005, Ph.D
  "Stochastic sampling for antialiasing in computer graphics"
  Went to Google
• Tao Jiang, graduated 2003, Ph.D
  "Data driven shrinkage strategies for quasi-regression".
  Went to Yahoo! now at Google
• Kristofer Jennings graduated 2002, Ph.D
  "On bias reduction using the bootstrap"
  Went to Purdue University, now at
• Jorge Picazo graduated 2002, Ph.D
  "Machine learning characterization of decision boundaries in multi-dimensional American options".
  Went to Capital One then Credit-Suisse First Boston now at Citadel.
• Lingyu Chen, graduated 2001, Ph.D
  "Extensions of stochastic approximation for high dimensional optimization, with applications to investment allocation and experimental design"
  Went to Intel
• Christiane Lemieux, Post doc 2000
• Yi Zhou, graduated 1998, Ph.D
  "Adaptive importance sampling for integration"
  Went to Goldman-Sachs
• Weidong Wang, graduated 1997, Ph.D
  "Adaptive metrology and mask inspection"
  Went to Yield dynamics
• Rong-Xian Yue, Post doc 1997
  Now at Shanghai Normal University
• Jing Qin, Post doc 1993
  Now at NIAID
• Jim Koehler, graduated 1990, Ph.D
  "Design and estimation issues in computer experiments"
  Went to University of Colorado at Denver Now at Google.