PhD Alumni
2020
Guy Cole
Advisor: Dr. Sinead Williamson
Dissertation: Relational Learning and Fairness
Placement: Sr. Data Scientist at Realtor.com
Maurice Diesendruck
Advisors: Dr. Mingyuan Zhou and Dr. Sinead Williamson
Dissertation: Distribution Distance Measures in Generative and Privacy Models
Placement: Data Scientist at Ojo Labs
Novin Ghaffari
Advisor: Dr. Stephen G. Walker
Dissertation: Optimal Transportation and Barycenter Problems via Convex Functions
Placement: ---
Li (Kelly) Kang
Advisors: Dr. Stephen G. Walker and Dr. Paul Damien
Dissertation: On a Transform for Modelling Skewness
Placement: ---
Jennifer Starling
Advisor: Dr. James G. Scott
Dissertation: Bayesian Methods for Complex Data Structures, with Applications to Precision Medicine in Women's Healthcare
Placement: Mathematica Policy Research
MIngzhang Yin
Advisor: Dr. Mingyuan Zhou
Dissertation: Variational Methods with Dependence Structure
Placement: postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University
2019
Carlos Tadeu Pagani Zanini
Advisors: Peter Müller & Mingyuan Zhou
Dissertation: Dependent mixtures and random partitions
Placement: Adjunct Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro, Department of Statistical Methods
2018
Bowei Yan
Advisor: Purnamrita Sarkar
Dissertation: Theoretical Analysis for convex and non-convex clustering algorithms
Placement: Quantitative Researcher at Jump Trading
Michael Zhang
Advisor: Sinead Williamson
Dissertation: Scalable Inference for Bayesian Non-parametrics
Placement: postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University
2017
Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla
Advisor: James G. Scott
Dissertation: Constrained Estimation via the Fused Lasso and Some Generalizations
Placement: Assistant Professor, UCLA, Department of Statistics
(prior to fall 2019,postdoctoral fellow at the University of California–Berkeley)
Tianjian Zhou
Advisor: Peter Müller
Dissertation: Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Biomedical Data Analysis
Placement: postdoctoral Scholar at The University of Chicago (prior to fall 2018, postdoctoral fellow at the NorthShore University HealthSystem, Chicago)
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POSTDOC ALUMNI
2017
Zeynep Ertem Oktay
Advisor: Lauren Meyers
Yang Ni
Advisor: Peter Mueller
2016
Minwoo Chae
Advisor: Stephen Walker, Lizhen Lin
Prithwish Bhaumik
Advisor: Lizhen Lin
Seunghwan Park
Advisor: Mike Daniels
Zeynep Ertem Oktay
Advisor: Lauren Meyers
Yang Ni
Advisor: Peter Mueller
2015
Minwoo Chae
Advisor: Stephen Walker, Lizhen Lin
Prithwish Bhaumik
Advisor: Lizhen Lin
Seunghwan Park
Advisor: Mike Daniels
2014
Joseph Neeman
Advisor: Sujay Sanghavi (courtesy appointments in SDS and Math)
Yanxun Xu
Advisor: Peter Mueller
2013
Joseph Neeman
Advisor: Sujay Sanghavi (courtesy appointments in SDS and Math)
Yanxun Xu
Advisor: Peter Mueller
2012
Piyush Rai
Advisor: Pradeep Ravikumar
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