Students Supervised

Current Research Advisees:
Xugang Ye (ABD), working in the area of random disambiguation paths & mark information monotonicity (jointly supervised with Shih-Ping Han)
Libby Beer (ABD), working in the area of statistical inference for random graphs (jointly supervised with Ed Scheinerman)
Zhiliang Ma (ABD), working in the area of statistical pattern recognition
Adam Cardinal-Stakenas (ABD), working in the area of statistical pattern recognition
Andrey Rukhin (doctoral student), working in the area of statistical inference for random graphs
Ting Yang (doctoral student), working in the area of kernel and mixture estimates
Nikhil Ram Mohan (BS/MS student), working in the area of statistical inference for brain shape analysis
Henry Pao (BS/MS student), working in the area of statistical inference for random graphs
Kartik Trehan (BS/MS student), working in the area of change point detection
JB, SM, SC,

  • 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: kgiles@acm.org
    http://www.people.vcu.edu/~kegiles/

  • Al Aksakalli, Ph.D. (2007)
    Dissertation Title: Protocols for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Dynamic Learning
    Defended: March 2007
    Al is now Senior Consultant for Lityx: ala@jhu.edu
    (Co-advisor with Donniell Fishkind)

  • 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 holds the position of Research Biostatistician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. johnm@email.chop.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

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

  • 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

  • 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_tao2000@yahoo.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

    Allison Barker, M.S. (2003)

    Karen Shahar, M.S. (2000)

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