Students Supervised

Current Research Advisees:
Sancar Adali (doctoral student), working in the area of statistical inference for high-dimensional data
Ming Sun (doctoral student), working in the area of statistical inference for high-dimensional data
Yichen Qin (doctoral student), working in the area of kernel and mixture estimates
Cencheng Shen (doctoral student), working in the area of statistical inference for high-dimensional data
Daniel Sussman (doctoral student), working in the area of statistical inference for graph data
Heng Wang (doctoral student), working in the area of latent process graph models
Jordan Yoder (doctoral student), working in the area of model selection
Chad Hawes (doctoral student)

  • Adam Cardinal-Stakenas, Ph.D. (2011)
  • Dissertation Title: Choosing a Dissimilarity Representation for Classification
    Defended: February 2011
    Adam is employed with DoD: cardinal.stakenas@gmail.com

  • Ting Yang, Ph.D. (2010)
  • Dissertation Title: The Effect of Model Misspecification on Semi-supervised Classification
    Defended: December 2010
    Ting is now at JHMI: ty.tingyang@gmail.com

  • Zhiliang Ma, Ph.D. (2010)
  • Dissertation Title: Disparate Information Fusion in the Dissimilarity Framework
    Defended: October 2010
    Zhiliang is now at QuinStreet: zhiliang.ma@gmail.com

  • Andrey Rukhin, Ph.D. (2009)
  • Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Analysis of Various Statistics for Random Graph Inference
    Defended: April 2009
    Andrey is now at NSWC Dahlgren: rukhin@gmail.com

  • Elizabeth (Libby) Beer, Ph.D. (2009)
  • Dissertation Title: Latent Position Random Graphs: Theory, Inference, and Applications
    Defended: February 2009
    (Co-advisor with Ed Scheinerman)
    Libby is now at IDA/CCS-Bowie: libby.beer@gmail.com

  • Xugang Ye, Ph.D. (2008)
  • Dissertation Title: Random Disambiguation Paths: Models, Algorithms, and Analysis
    Defended: September 2008
    (Co-advisor with Shih-Ping Han)
    Xugang is now at NIH/NLM/NCBI: yex3@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , yexugang@yahoo.com

  • Al Aksakalli, Ph.D. (2007)
  • Dissertation Title: Protocols for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Dynamic Learning
    Defended: March 2007
    (Co-advisor with Donniell Fishkind)
    Al is now Assistant Professor at Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey: aksakalli@sehir.edu.tr , va1800@yahoo.com
    http://www.sehir.edu.tr/Default.aspx?SectionID=374

  • Kendall Giles, Ph.D. (2007)
  • Dissertation Title: Knowledge Discovery in Computer Network Data: A Security Perspective
    Defended: October 2006
    Kendall is now Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University: kendallgiles@gmail.com ; http://www.people.vcu.edu/~kegiles/

  • Majnu John, Ph.D. (2005)
  • Dissertation Title: A data-adaptive methodology for finding an optimal weighted generalized Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon statistic
    Defended: January 2005
    Majnu John is Institute Scientist in the Feinstein Institute and Director of Biostatistics in the Department of Psychiatry at LIJ: mjohn5@nshs.edu

  • Elvan Ceyhan, Ph.D. (2005)
  • Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Proximity Catch Digraphs in Delaunay Tessellations
    Defended: October 2004
    Elvan Ceyhan is now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Koc University, Istanbul: elceyhan@ku.edu.tr
    http://home.ku.edu.tr/~elceyhan/

  • Jason DeVinney, Ph.D. (2003)
  • Dissertation Title: The Class Cover Problem and its Applications in Pattern Recognition
    Defended: November 2002
    Jason DeVinney is now at Center for Computing Sciences: jgdevin@super.org , jasondevinney@gmail.com

  • Adam Cannon, Ph.D. (2001)
  • Dissertation Title: Approximate Distance Methods in Classification
    Defended: May 2000
    (Co-advisor with Lenore Cowen)
    Adam Cannon is now at Columbia University: cannon@cs.columbia.edu

  • Peng Tao, Ph.D. (2000)
  • Dissertation Title: The Generalized Borrowed Strength Method and the Application to Image Recognition
    Defended: March 2000
    Peng Tao is now at AccuImage: peng.tao@gmail.com ; peng_tao2000@yahoo.com

  • Dalei Chen, Ph.D. (2000)
  • Dissertation Title: Borrowed Strength Density Estimation and Applications
    Defended: November 1999
    Dalei Chen is now at Bristol-Myers Squibb: dalei.chen@bms.com

  • Jingdong Xie, Ph.D. (1999)
  • Dissertation Title: Generalizing the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon Statistic
    Defended: April 1999
    Jingdong Xie is now Associate Director of Biostatistics at Forest Research Institute: jingdong.xie@frx.com

    Dominic Lee, Ph.D. (1996)
    Dominic Lee is now at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: D.Lee@math.canterbury.ac.nz

    Nikhil Ram Mohan, M.S. (2009)
    Nikhil is now in the MD/PhD program at Northwestern University

    Allison Barker, M.S. (2003)

    Karen Shahar, M.S. (2000)
    "Quantitative Differentiation of Breast Lesions Based on 3-Dimensional Morphology from MR Imaging"
    Karen Cohen nee Shahar is now a radiation oncologist in private practice in Houston, TX.

    Howard Friedman, Ph.D. (2000) : howiefriedman@yahoo.com