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