Student Research (and initial post graduation employment)
Doctoral students
Yi (Derek) Ye (co-adviser with V.A. Samaranayake)
Dissertation title: Statistical methods for the analysis of aerosol particulate data.
Summer 2005. Assistant Professor at University of North Florida.
Xiaojun Hu
Dissertation title: Distributional properties of p-values in multiple testing applications
Thesis defense: Dec. 2006. Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chadds Ford, PA.
Qinfang Xiang
Dissertation title: Parameter estimation in a finite mixture model in high dimensional
applications. Fall, 2006. Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chadds Ford, PA.
Thidaporn Supapakorn
Dissertation title: Use of potential outcomes for bounding the effect of a latent variable.
Summer, 2008. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science Kasetsart University
Lad Yao, JaTuJak Bangkok
Edwin Ndum
Dissertation topic: Individual treatment variability in multiple time point trials.
Summer 2009. ACT Corporation, Iowa City, Iowa.
Robert Poulson
Dissertation topic: Subject-treatment interaction and the proportion of similar response.
Spring, 2011. Edwards Air Force Base
Dilan Paranagama
Dissertation topic: Correlation in large scale testing.
Fall 2011: BioStat Solutions.
Lianqing Zheng
Dissertation topic: Product-reactant pathways in lipidomics experiments.
Spring 2013
Roshan Serasinghe
Dissertation topic: Individual effects in mediation analyses
Summer: 2013. Quintiles, Overland Park, KS.
Karen Keating
Dissertation topic: Compositional analysis of pyrosequencing data
Summer 2012: Research Assoc. University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Troy Richardson
Dissertation topic: Individual effects in observational data
Summer: 2013. Biostatistician, Children's Hospital Association, Shawnee Mission, KS.
Masters students
Wanrong Yin
Thesis title: Tests for gene-treatment interaction in microarray data analysis
Summer 2005. Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp., Baltimore.
Lin Yang
Research paper: Assessing the properties of a ranking technique for detecting
differentially expressed genes from a microarray experiment.
Summer 2007. University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
Lu Gan
Thesis title: Modeling emissions indices from an airport study of particulate emissions.
Summer 2008. To pursue PhD at University of Illinois.
Lixia Fan
Research paper: Discovering Product-Reactant pairs in Lipidomics Research.
Spring: 2010.
Roby Joehanes
Research paper: Multiple trait multiple interval mapping.
Fall: 2009. National Institutes of Health.
Tingting Song
Research paper: Analysis of lipid profiles from an ecological experiment.
Fall 2010. Continuing for PhD degree.
Xiaofei Wang
Research topic: Correlation and permutation tests for high-dimensional data
Summer 2012.
Xin Sun
Research paper: Statistical methods for diagnostic testing: An illustration using a new method for cancer detection.
Fall 2013.
Undergraduate students
Sarah Klein
Topic: Counter-intuitive probability in risk assessment (2003 JSM proceedings paper).
Mercer Consulting, Kansas City.
Doctoral students
Yi (Derek) Ye (co-adviser with V.A. Samaranayake)
Dissertation title: Statistical methods for the analysis of aerosol particulate data.
Summer 2005. Assistant Professor at University of North Florida.
Xiaojun Hu
Dissertation title: Distributional properties of p-values in multiple testing applications
Thesis defense: Dec. 2006. Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chadds Ford, PA.
Qinfang Xiang
Dissertation title: Parameter estimation in a finite mixture model in high dimensional
applications. Fall, 2006. Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chadds Ford, PA.
Thidaporn Supapakorn
Dissertation title: Use of potential outcomes for bounding the effect of a latent variable.
Summer, 2008. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science Kasetsart University
Lad Yao, JaTuJak Bangkok
Edwin Ndum
Dissertation topic: Individual treatment variability in multiple time point trials.
Summer 2009. ACT Corporation, Iowa City, Iowa.
Robert Poulson
Dissertation topic: Subject-treatment interaction and the proportion of similar response.
Spring, 2011. Edwards Air Force Base
Dilan Paranagama
Dissertation topic: Correlation in large scale testing.
Fall 2011: BioStat Solutions.
Lianqing Zheng
Dissertation topic: Product-reactant pathways in lipidomics experiments.
Spring 2013
Roshan Serasinghe
Dissertation topic: Individual effects in mediation analyses
Summer: 2013. Quintiles, Overland Park, KS.
Karen Keating
Dissertation topic: Compositional analysis of pyrosequencing data
Summer 2012: Research Assoc. University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Troy Richardson
Dissertation topic: Individual effects in observational data
Summer: 2013. Biostatistician, Children's Hospital Association, Shawnee Mission, KS.
Masters students
Wanrong Yin
Thesis title: Tests for gene-treatment interaction in microarray data analysis
Summer 2005. Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp., Baltimore.
Lin Yang
Research paper: Assessing the properties of a ranking technique for detecting
differentially expressed genes from a microarray experiment.
Summer 2007. University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
Lu Gan
Thesis title: Modeling emissions indices from an airport study of particulate emissions.
Summer 2008. To pursue PhD at University of Illinois.
Lixia Fan
Research paper: Discovering Product-Reactant pairs in Lipidomics Research.
Spring: 2010.
Roby Joehanes
Research paper: Multiple trait multiple interval mapping.
Fall: 2009. National Institutes of Health.
Tingting Song
Research paper: Analysis of lipid profiles from an ecological experiment.
Fall 2010. Continuing for PhD degree.
Xiaofei Wang
Research topic: Correlation and permutation tests for high-dimensional data
Summer 2012.
Xin Sun
Research paper: Statistical methods for diagnostic testing: An illustration using a new method for cancer detection.
Fall 2013.
Undergraduate students
Sarah Klein
Topic: Counter-intuitive probability in risk assessment (2003 JSM proceedings paper).
Mercer Consulting, Kansas City.