Alumni 2000 - 2009

Soyeon Ahn

Graduated: 2009
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Statistical topics in gene regulation"
Last known position: Postdoc, Seoul National University

Richard Liang

Graduated: 2009
Advisor: Evans
Dissertation: "Two continuum-sites stepping stone models in population genetics with delayed coalescence"
Last known position: Postdoc, Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Guillaume Obozinski

Graduated: 2009
Dissertation: "Simultaneous Variable Selection and Simultaneous Subspace Selection for Multitask Learning"
Last known position: Postdocoral Fellow, INRIA

Peter Ralph

Graduated: 2009
Advisor: Evans
Dissertation: "Most recent common ancestors, genetic inheritance, stochastic gene transcription and Brownian motion on disconnected sets: a probabilistic analysis of a few models"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis

Allan Sly

Graduated: 2009
Advisor: Mossel
Dissertation: "Spatial and Temporal Mixing of Gibbs Measures"
Last known position: Postdoc, Microsoft Research

Vince Vu

Graduated: 2009
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "High Dimensional Data Analysis: Entropy and Regression"
Last known position: NSF Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University

Choongsoon Bae

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Analyzing Random Forests"
Last known position: Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.

Shankar Bhamidi

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Aldous
Dissertation: "Random Networks: Flows and Asymptotics"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia

Greg Hather

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Speed and Wildermuth
Dissertation: "Statistical analysis of DNA sequence motifs and microarray data"
Last known position: Biostatistician, Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute

Ron Peled

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Evans and Peres
Dissertation: "Global Irregularities for Poisson Processes - Gravitational Allocations and Rough Isometrics"
Last known position: Courant Instructor / PIRE Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Guilherme Rocha

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "Sparsity and model selection through convex penalties: Structured selection, covariance selection and some theory"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington

David Rosenberg

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Bartlett
Dissertation: "Semi-Supervised Learning with Multiple Views"
Last known position: Research Scientist, Sense Networks

Na Xu

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Transcriptome Detection by Multiple RNA Tiling Array Analysis and Identifying Functional Conserved Non-coding Elements by Statistical Testing"
Last known position: Statistician, Genentech

Donghui Yan

Graduated: 2008
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Some Issues with Dimensionality in Statistical Inference"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Rui Dong

Graduated: 2007
Advisor: Pitman
Dissertation: "Coagulation-fragmentation duality for Poisson-Dirichlet distributions, and exchangeable partitions derived from Markovian coalescents."

Victor Panaretos

Graduated: 2007
Advisor: Brillinger
Dissertation: "Inverse Problems, Stochastic Geometry, Structural Biology"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Chair of Mathematical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

Sebastian Roch

Graduated: 2007
Advisor: Mossel
Dissertation: "Markov Models on Trees: Reconstruction and Applications"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research

Mikhail Traskin

Graduated: 2007
Advisor: Bartlett
Dissertation: ""On the Consistency of Ensemble Classification Algorithms""
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

Richard Bourgon

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Chromatin-immunoprecipitation and high-density tiling microarrays: a generative model, methods for analysis, and methodology assessment in the absence of a "gold standard""
Last known position: Postdoctoral Fellow, European Bioinformatics Institute

Young Cho

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Rice
Dissertation: "Estimating Velocity Fields on a Freeway from Low Resolution Video"
Last known position: Assistant Portfolio Manager, Barclays Global Investors

Manjunath Krishnapur

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Peres
Dissertation: "Zeros of Random Analytic Functions"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto

Pawel Lasiecki

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Brillinger
Dissertation: "Assessment of Stochastic Differential Equation and Markov Chain Models in Time Series "
Last known position: Senior Statistical Analyst, Searchme, Inc.

Bo Li

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "On Goodness-of-fit Tests of Semiparametric Models"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China

Gábor Pete

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Peres
Dissertation: "Dependent percolation, critical exponents, random walks, and anchored isoperimetry"
Last known position: Postdoc Researcher, Theory Group, Microsoft Research, WA

Jing Yi

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Absolute and Relative Quantification of Fluorescently Labelled DNA."
Last known position: Biostatistician, Genentech

Peng Zhao

Graduated: 2006
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "Regularization - Sparsity, Structure and Computation"
Last known position: Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Investment Group

Chao Chen

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Breiman
Dissertation: "Topics in Random Forests"
Last known position: Citadel Investment Group

Apratim Guha

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Brillinger
Dissertation: "Analysis of Dependence Structures of Hybrid Stochastic Processes Using Mutual Information"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore

Ingileif Hallgrimsdottir

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Statistical methods for gene mapping in complex diseases"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Alan Hammond

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Peres and Rezakhanlou
Dissertation: "Two models of probability theory: Brownian fluctuations and a kinetic limit"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Jon McAuliffe

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Jordan
Dissertation: "Statistical Methods for Comparing Genomes"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

Tao Shi

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "Polar Cloud Detection using Satellite Data with Analysis and Application of Kernal Learning Algorithms"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University

Xiaoyue Zhao

Graduated: 2005
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Statistical methods for elucidating DNA motifs and modules"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Aiyou Chen

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Semiparametric Inference for Independent Component Analysis"
Last known position: Member of Technical Staff, Communications and Statistical Sciences, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Francois Collin

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Analysis of oligonucleotide data with a view to data quality assessment"
Last known position: Senior Statistician, Data Analysis, Affymetrix, Inc

Gang Liang

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "Statistical Inference in Network Tomography"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine

Serban Nacu

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Peres
Dissertation: "On the Simulation of Certain Random Systems"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, Stanford University

Vivian Wai Ying Ng

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Breiman
Dissertation: "Univariate and Bivariate Variable Selection in High Dimensional Data"
Last known position: Biostatistician, Oncology, Genentech, Inc.

Michael Roginsky

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Schruben(IE)
Dissertation: "Modeling of transient processes in Markov chains with an application to the Internet traffic description"

Chad Schafer

Graduated: 2004
Advisor: Stark
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Antar Bandyopadhyay

Graduated: 2003
Advisor: Aldous
Dissertation: "Max-Recursive Distributional Equations"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Centre

Noam Berger

Graduated: 2003
Advisor: Peres
Dissertation: "Random Walk on Percolation Clusters"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Yongchao Ge

Graduated: 2003
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Multiple Testing in Microarrays"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Biomathematical Sciences and Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Katherina Kechris

Graduated: 2003
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Lea Popovic

Graduated: 2003
Advisor: Aldous
Dissertation: "Asymptotic Genealogy of a Branching Process and a Model of Macroevolution"
Last known position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University

Fletcher Hank Ibser

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Nolan
Last known position: Lecturer, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Jenher Jeng

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Bickel
Last known position: Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University

Elizaveta Levina

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Statistical issues in texture analysis"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Yee Hwa Yang

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Statistical methods in the design and analysis of gene expression data from cDNA microarray experiments"
Last known position: Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

Von Bing Yap

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Modeling Molecular Substitution"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore

Zhuo Yu

Graduated: 2002
Advisor: Van Der Laan
Dissertation: "Casual Inference in Longitudinal Studies"

Nicola Armstrong

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Incorporating Interference into the Linkage Analysis of Experimental Crosses"
Last known position: Senior Statistician, Bioinformatics and Statistics, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Dursun Bulutoglu

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Cheng
Dissertation: "Projection Properties of Paley Designs and Optimal Supersaturated Designs"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology

Jane Fridlyand

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Resampling Methods for Variable Selection and Classification: Applications to Genomics"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco

Edward Luke Ionides

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Brillinger
Dissertation: "Statistical Analysis of Cell Motion"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Rebecka Jornsten

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Yu
Dissertation: "Data Compressions and Its Statistical Implications, with an application to the Analysis of Microarray Images"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University

Chyng-Lan Liang

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Rice, DePater
Dissertation: "The Detection of Stellar Occulations by Kuiper Belt Objects"
Last known position: Quantitative Analyst, Algorithmics Incorporated

Jason Schweinsberg

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Pitman
Dissertation: "Coalescents with Simultaneous Multiple Collisions"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

Xiaoyan Zhang

Graduated: 2001
Advisor: Rice
Dissertation: "Statistical Topics in Transportation Studies"
Last known position: Associate Director, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company

Simon Cawley

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Statistical Models for DNA Sequencing and Analysis"
Last known position: Manager, Data Analysis, Affymetrix, Inc.

Yoram Gat

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Overfit Bounds for Classification Algorithims"
Last known position: Researcher, Nanovision Lab, Intel

Jaimyoung Kwon

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Bickel
Dissertation: "Calculus of Statistical Efficiency in a General Setting; Kernel Plug-in Estimates for Markov Chains; Hidden Markov Modeling of Freeway Traffic"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Cal State University, Hayward

Wei Li

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Stone
Dissertation: "Modeling Marked Point Processes with an Application to Currency Exchange Rates"
Last known position: Portfolio Manager, Barclays Global Investors

Shiying Ling

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Speed
Dissertation: "Constructing Genetic Maps for Outbred Experimental Crosses"
Last known position: Analyst, Wells Fargo

Benjamin James Morris

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Sinclair
Dissertation: "Random Walk in Convex Sets"
Last known position: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

Balint Virag

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Peres
Dissertation: "Random Walks and Geometry on Graphs of Exponential Growth"
Last known position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto

Hui Wang

Graduated: 2000
Advisor: Beran
Dissertation: "Multiple Shrinkage Estimator"
Last known position: Senior Manager, Risk Modeling, PayPal