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