M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

Below is the schedule of upcoming defences for graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. If you wish to attend, please email statgrad at sfu.ca.

Summer 2024

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
AUGUST
14	2:00pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Quinn Forzley	Exploring Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity and Correlation in COVID-19 Associated Follow-Up Visits and Events
14	10:30am	LIB 7200	M.Sc.	Sashini Darshani Silva Fransisku Hettige	Strong orthogonal arrays of strength 2+ with better two-dimensional projection properties
13	10:30am	LIB 7200	M.Sc.	Lu Tan	Integration of pre-trained large language model and knowledge graph embedding into topic modeling with latent Dirichlet allocation
12	10:30am	ASB 10920	M.Sc.	Niwanthi Muthukuda Arachchilage	Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo with Adaptive Multiple-Try Metropolis Kernel and Applications to Disease Transmission Models
1	10:00am	LIB 7200 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Maggie (Meng) Sun	Advancements in Cyber Risk Management: a Comprehensive Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Data Breaches with Applications in Cyber Insurance
JULY
15	9:30am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Zhi Yuh Ou Yang	Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data
JUNE
26	9:30am	Zoom	M.Sc.	Nadia Enhaili	Improving Healthcare Policies Using Reinforcement Learning on Patterns of Service Utilization
25	9:15am	Zoom	Ph.D.	Yuping Yang	Dimension Reduction for Functional Data and Hypothesis Testing for Ordinary Differential Equation Models
MAY
29	10:00am	HAL 123 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Tianxing Yan	Dependence modeling for heavy-tailed multi-peril insurance losses
27	1:00pm	LIB 7200 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Sidi Wu	Neural Networks for Functional and Survival Data
15	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Lulu Guo	Evaluating Treatment Efficacy in Randomized Controlled Trials with Treatment Noncompliance and Multivariate Outcomes

Spring 2024

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
April
22	10:00am	LIB 2020 & ZOOM	M.Sc.	Quang Vuong	The performance of annealed sequential Monte Carlo sampling as a joint variable selection and parameter estimation method in the linear (mixed) model setting
9	9:00am	Zoom	M.Sc.	Diksha Jethnani	Analysis of rare variants in the first exon of the ataxin-2 gene in patients with neurodegenerative diseases
March
29	11:30am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Yanjun Liu	A Multiscale Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model for Dispersion Process with Applications to Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations
21	1:30pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc.	Yirong Zhu	Enhanced Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Mortality Rates Incorporating Jumps: A Multi-Country Perspective
15	2:30pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc.	Yiting Chen	A new class of depth-based statistics with same attractor
13	2:00pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Yueyang Han	Testing the Effectiveness of Treatment for Cancers for which the Endpoint is Survival Using Bayesian Subgroup Analysis
13	1:00pm	Hybrid	M.Sc.	Nikhil Kapoor	Impact of Asset Modeling Choices on Lifetime Pension Pools

Fall 2023

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
December
19	10:00am	Hybrid	Ph.D.	Payman Nickchi	Linkage fine-mapping on sequences from case-control studies and Goodness-of-fit tests based on empirical distribution function for general likelihood model
18	10:30am	Zoom	M.Sc.	Gurashish Bagga	Offensive and defensive penalties on score differentials and drive outcomes in the NFL
18	2:30pm	Hybrid	M.Sc.	Rina Wang	The Application of Categorical Embedding and Spatial-Constraint Clustering Methods in Nested GLM Model
6	1:00pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc.	David (Liwei) Lai	An Exploration of a Testing Procedure for the Aviation Industry
November
29	9:00am	Hybrid	M.Sc.	Teng-Wei Lin	Forecasting the trajectories of Southern Resident Killer Whales with stochastic continuous-time movement models
October
23	10:00am	Hybrid	Ph.D.	Nirodha Epasinghege Dona	Big Data Applications in Genetics and Sports
6	1:00pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Kim Kroetch	Inverse Ensemble Forecasting for COVID Outbreaks
September
22	9:30am	Hybrid	M.Sc.	Summer Shan	An application of the James-Stein Estimation Method in Modeling of Mortality Rates
7	9:30am	Hybrid	Ph.D.	William Ruth	Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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