Postdoctoral Fellows


 

1.      Yassir Rabhi, 2011 – 2012.

2.      Yongge Tian, 2004 - 2005; Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

3.      Sanjoy Sinha, 2000 - 2001; Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University.


Graduate Students


Currently being supervised

1.      Rui Hu, Ph.D.

2.      Richard Opoku-Nsiah, Ph.D.

3.      Bangxin Zhao, Ph.D.

4.      Maryam Daemi, M.Sc.

5.      Dengdeng Yu, M.Sc.

PhD graduates

6.      Adeniyi Adewale, 2006; thesis entitled Robust Integer-Valued Designs for Generalized Linear Models. Biometrician, Merck & Co. Inc.

7.      Xiaojian Xu, 2006; thesis entitled Robust Prediction and Extrapolation Designs, with Applications to Accelerated Life Testing. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brock University.

8.      Zhide Fang, 1999; thesis entitled Robust Extrapolation Designs. Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Louisiana State University-Health Science Center, New Orleans.    

9.      Giseon Heo, 1998; thesis entitled Optimal Designs for Approximately Polynomial Regression Models. Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry, University of Alberta.

10.  Alwell Oyet, 1997; thesis entitled Robust Designs for Wavelet Approximations of Nonlinear Models. Associate Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland (was Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 1997/98).

11.  Julie Zhou, 1995; thesis entitled Robust Experimental Designs for Linear Models. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria (was Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lakehead University, 1995-1998).

12.  Eden Wu, 1990; thesis entitled Asymptotic Minimax Properties of M-estimators of Scale. Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

MSc graduates

13.  Jamil Karami, 2011; thesis entitled Designs for Nonlinear Regression With a Prior on the Parameters. Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka.

14.  Kate Yaraee, 2011; thesis entitled Functional Data Analysis With Application to MS and Cervical Vertebrae Data.

15.  Xiao Guo, 2011; project entitled Longitudinal Data Analysis in Social Science Data.

16.  Ya Meng, 2011; thesis entitled An Application of Gene Set Analysis for a Comparison of Two Groups. PhD student, U. Florida.

17.  Mengzhe Wang, 2006; project entitled A Comparative Study of Robust Regression Designs. Manager, Analytic Team, Cancer Surveillance, Alberta Health Services.

18.  Fred Ackah, 2004; project entitled Robust Assignment Probabilities for Clinical Trials. Health data analyst, Alberta Health and Wellness.

19.  John Baser, 2003; project entitled A Kalman Filter Analysis of Particulate Matter Using an AR(1) Model. Data analyst, Government of Alberta.

20.   Adeniyi Adewale, 2002; thesis entitled Robust Designs for Approximate Regression Models with Two Interacting Regressors. See "PhD graduates".

21.  Md. Shakhawat Hossain, 2002; project entitled Implementation of Robust Designs for Straight Line Regression. Ph.D. (U. Windsor); Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg.

22.  Xia Wu, 2000; project entitled A Comparative Study of Various Allocation Schemes in a Clinical Trial. Analyst with Statistics Canada.

23.   Quanli Wang, 1999; thesis entitled Approximations to the Distributions of Some Robust Test Statistics. Bioinformatician, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

24.  John O'Connor, 1998; project entitled An Analysis of Hearing Loss in Goldminers. Instructor of Mathematics, Grant McEwan College, Edmonton AB.

25.   Zhiyi Du, 1995; thesis entitled Jackknife Methods in Robust Regression. Software engineer with Nortel Networks, Ottawa.

26.   Julie Zhou, 1992; thesis entitled Bounded Influence R-estimators in the Linear Model. See "PhD graduates".

27.  Feng Tao, 1992; project entitled An Analysis of Geographical Data. In private business.

28.   Tony Leung, 1992; project entitled Using Measurement Error Models to Study the Shelter Effect. Biostatistician, Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical School.

29.  Hai Nguyen, 1992; project entitled Application of Some Multivariate Techniques in Analysing Biological Data. Biometrician, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo BC.

30.  Yu Wang, 1992; thesis entitled Optimal Robust Rank-Based Estimators in the Linear Model. Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics, Boston University. .

Others

31.  Leshy Paynter, PhD (incomplete) 1985-87, Dalhousie University; now a clergyman.

PhD theses for which I was the external examiner

1.      M. Xie, 1998, Hong Kong Baptist University; thesis entitled Some Optimalities of Uniform Designs and Projection Uniform Designs Under Multi-Factor Models.

2.      M. Salibian-Barrera, 2000; University of British Columbia; thesis entitled Contributions to the Theory of Robust Inference.

3.      Peilin Shi, 2002; University of Victoria; thesis entitled Minimax Robust Designs for Misspecified Regression Models.