Students Supervised

Current Research Advisees:
Zhiliang Ma (ABD), working in the area of statistical pattern recognition
Adam Cardinal-Stakenas (ABD), working in the area of statistical pattern recognition
Ting Yang (ABD), working in the area of kernel and mixture estimates and semisupervised learning
Nikhil Ram Mohan (graduate student), working in the area of statistical inference for brain shape analysis
Henry Pao (graduate student), working in the area of statistical inference for random graphs
John Blatz, Steven Marchette, Sam Carliles, Jayant Gupta

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

  • 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

  • Xugang Ye, Ph.D. (2008)
    Dissertation Title: Random Disambiguation Paths: Models, Algorithms, and Analysis
    Defended: September 2008
    (Co-advisor with Shih-Ping Han)

  • 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

    Nikhil Ram Mohan, M.S. (2009)

    Allison Barker, M.S. (2003)

    Karen Shahar, M.S. (2000)

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