Current Members:
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Jiarui (Erin) Zhang, PhD Student, Sep 2019 - Present
Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang
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Matthew Parker, PhD Student, Sep 2020 - Present
Co-supervised with Prof. Lloyd Elliott
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Bingfan Liu, PhD Student, Sep 2022 - Present
Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi
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Muye Nanshan, PhD Student, Sep 2023 - Present
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Siying Ma, PhD Student, Sep 2024 - Present
Co-supervised with Prof. Lloyd Elliott
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Minrui Cao, Master Student, Sep 2024 - Present
Alumni
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Peijun Sang, PhD Student, Sep 2014 - Aug 2018
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Peijun Sang Won the Pierre Robillard Award at the Statistical Society of Canada in 2019.
From SSC website: The Pierre Robillard Award recognizes the best PhD thesis defended at a Canadian university in a given year and written in the fields of probability or statistics. In any given year, no more than one winner will be selected.
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Haolun Shi, Postdoc, Oct 2018 - September 2020
Co-supervised with Prof. Jian Pei
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
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Tianyu Guan, PhD Student, Sep 2015 - November 2020
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, Canada.
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Haixu (Alex) Wang, PhD Student, Sep 2017 - June 2023
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Canada.
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Jianghu (James) Dong, PhD Student, Jan 2015 - December 2018
Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA.
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Yunlong Nie, PhD Student, Sep 2014 - September 2018
NSERC Doctoral Scholarship
Current Position: Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
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Zhenhua Lin, Master, Sep 2011 - Aug 2013
Thesis Title: Some Perspectives Of Smooth And Locally Sparse Estimators
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore (after obtaining his PhD at University of Toronto and doing postdoc at University of California, Davis)
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Xin Liu, Master, Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Thesis Title: Parameter Estimation for Catch Equations
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (after obtaining his PhD at University of Western Ontario)
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Baisen Liu, Postdoc, Sep 2011 - May 2013
Current position: Lecturer in Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China
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Hua Liu, PhD in Statistics, September 2017--May 2021
Co-supervised with Prof. Jinhong You, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China -
Xiong Cai, PhD in Statistics, September 2017--May 2021
Co-supervised with Prof. Liugen Xue, College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Statistics and Data Science, Nanjing Audit University, China -
Haitao Chen, PhD in Energy Management, September 2017--May 2021
Co-supervised with Prof. Zhaohua Wang, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology
Current position: Research Scientist, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China -
Efehan Ulas, Postdoctoral Association, December 2019-- October 2020, SFU
Title of Projects: Modeling Multiple Functional Outcomes
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey -
Cédric Beaulac, CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2021--November 2022, SFU
Co-supervised with Prof. Farouk Nathoo and Prof. Faisal Beg.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Département de mathématiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada -
Asad Haris, Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2021--August 2022, UBC
Co-supervised with Prof. Ali Ameli, Prof. Nadja Kunz, and Prof. Will Welch.
Current Position: Methodologist, Statistics Canada -
Zheyuan Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2021--December 2022, SFU
Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University, China -
Boyi Hu, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2018 - August 2023
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University -
Yuping Yang, PhD in Statistics, September 2015 - July 2024, SFU (on Leave in 2020-2024)
Co-supervised with Prof. Richard Lockhart.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Yuxi Normal University, China
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Sidi Wu, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2018 - July 2024
Awards: SSC Best Oral Presentation Award (2023)
SSC Best Poster Presentation Award (2022)
Robin Insley Statistics Workshop Teaching Excellence Award (2023)
David Eaves Award (2021)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Fuzhou University, China
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Rina Wang, Master in Statistics, September 2022--December 2023, SFU
Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi
Current position: Data Scientist, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC)
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Elijah Cavan, Master in Statistics, September 2021--December 2022, SFU
Co-supervised with Prof. Tim Swartz
Awards: 2022 NFL Big Data Bowl; Randy Sitter Annual Graduate Scholarship ;
2022 Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) - Master's Best Poster Presentation (3rd Prize)
Current position: Junior Data Scientist, Pinnacle, Toronto, Canada
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Barinder Thind, MSc Student, Sep 2018 - April 2020
Thesis Title: Functional Neural Networks for Scalar Prediction
Current position: Data Analyst, Later
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Joel Therrien, MSc Student, Sep 2017 - December 2019
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Loan Prepayment Using Competing Risks Random Forests
Current position: Data Scientist, Landcor Data Corporation
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Yajie Zhou, MSc Student in Computer Science, Sep 2016 - August 2019
Co-supervised with Prof. Jian Pei
Current position: Software Engineer, Amazon Wed Services
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Chuyuan (Charlene) Lin, MSc Student, Sep 2017 - April 2019
Current Position: Data Analyst, Emerald City Game
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Haixu (Alex) Wang, Master, Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Thesis Title: Estimating conditional intensity function of a neural spike train by particle Markov chain Monte Carlo and smoothing
Co-supervised with Prof. Qian (Michelle) Zhou
Current position: PhD student at Simon Fraser University
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Bin Zhao, Master Student, Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
Thesis Title: How does Climate Change Affect Forest Fire Rate in British Columbia?
Current position: BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver
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Xin Wang, Master, Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Thesis Title: Functional data analysis for circular data
Current position: Senior Analyst, Trading Risk and Model Development, TD Bank, Toronto
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Jing Cai, Master, Sep 2009 - Aug 2011
Thesis Title: Nonparametric Method and Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Parameter Estimation and Prediction
Current position: Senior Manager, Metrics and Analytics, Scotiabank, Toronto
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Jia Xu, Master, Sep 2008 - Aug 2010
Thesis Title: Robust Estimation for Differential Equations, Time Series Analysis on Climate Change and MCMC Simulation of Duration-Of-Load Problem
Current position: Financial analyst at the Shanghai ShuJun Fund Management Co., Shanghai, China
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Jiyi Chen, Master, Sep 2008 - Aug 2010
Thesis Title: Automated Load Curve Data Cleansing in Power Systems, Co-supervised with Prof. Ke Wang
Current position: Software Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shanghai, China