PhD Placements
Recent PhD Graduates
The following gives the current employer (if known) and the dissertation topics of recent PhD graduates:
Oscar Zarate, 2020
Data Scientist, Microsoft
Yiben Yang, 2020
Research Scientist, Facebook
Yang Yu, 2020
Austin Alleman, 2020
Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Yuanjing Ma, 2020
Pan Wang, 2019
Senior Biostatistician, Vanda Pharmaceuticals
Ruimin Zhu, 2019
Mindy Hong, 2019
Post Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University / Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Minhui Zheng, 2019
Data Scientist, Capital One
Yishu Wei, 2019
Research Scientist, Facebook
Wenqian Wang, 2019
Data Scientist, LinkedIn Corporation
Yuan Li, 2018
Data scientist, Google, Inc.
Bin Xiong, 2018
Assistant Vice President, Citi
Jingsi Zhang, 2018
Data Scientist, Walmart Labs
Jacob Schauer, 2018
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine
Rachel Ktsanes, 2017
PayNet
Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Trials for Developing Adaptive Treatment Strategies in Complex Clustered Settings
Grace Yoon, 2017
Postdoc, Texas A&M University
Dissertation: Topics of Variable Selection in Biomedical Data Mining
Wendy Chan, 2016
Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Extensions to the Generalizability of Experiments in the Social Sciences
Yi Gao, 2016
Statistician at Google
Dissertation:
Xiaofei Hu, 2016
Dissertation:Volatility Estimation for Integer-valued Financial Time Series
Zachary Seeskin, 2016
Statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago
Dissertation: Topics on Official Statistics and Statstical Policy
Arend M. Kuyper, 2015
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Dissertation: An Alternative Method for Teacher Evaluation When Using Student Test Score Data
Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, 2015
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation: Statistical Modeling for High Dimensional Structured Data with Application to Neuroimaging
Qingyang Zhang, 2015
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas
Dissertation: Learning Sparse Bayesian Network with Mixed Variables and its Application to Cancer Systems Biology
Cheng Li, 2014
Assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore
Dissertation Title: On Likelihood-free Bayesian Inference, Model Selection and Risk Minimization for Increasing Dimensional Data.
Yu Zhao, 2014
Amazon.com
Dissertation: On Asymptotic Distributions and Confidence Intervals for LIFT Measures in Data Mining
Kenneth McCallum, 2013
Postdoc, Columbia University
Dissertation: Modeling Read Distributions In High-throughput Sequencing Datasets
James Pustejovsky, 2013
Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: Operationally Comparable Effect Sizes for Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Research*
*His thesis won the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award for 2013.
Dong Xi, 2013
Novartis, NJ
Dissertation: Topics in Gatekeeping and Group Sequential Procedures for Multiple Endpoints
Juanjuan Li, 2012
inVentiv Health Clinical, NJ
Dissertation: Bayesian Variable Selection for High-Dimensional Clustering
Eduardo Fonseca Mendes, 2012
Australian School of Business, UNSW
Dissertation: Convergence rates and model selection for mixture of experts
Huanhuan Wang, 2012
JP Morgan, Bejing
Dissertation: Univariate ARMA-AGARCH & Multivariate ARMA-GARCH Modeling
Elizabeth (Beth) Tipton, 2011
Assistant Professor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Dissertation: Methods for Generalizing from Experiments
Yi Wu, December 2011
Novartis, NJ
Dissertation: Adaptive Group Sequential Procedures for Multiple Endpoints with Gatekeeping Restrictions
LiLi Yao, 2011
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Dissertation: Prediction of Binary Response Variable in Panel Data
Yuan Liao, 2010
Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University
Dissertation: Bayesian Analysis in Partially Identified Parametric and Nonparametric Models
Kunyang Shi, 2010
Forest Laboratories, NJ
Dissertation: Power and Sample Size Determination for Dose Finding and Multiple Endpoints
Lingyun Liu, 2009
Cytel in Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Topics in Multiple Comparisons: Weighted Hochberg and Gatekeeping Procedures
Christopher Rhoads
Northwestern University
Dissertation: Utilizing external information about the covariance structure in experiments with clustering
Haoliang Song, 2007
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Dissertation: Synthetic Bias Estimation in Small Area Estimation
Xin Wang, 2006
Pfizer
Dissertation: Gatekeeping Procedures for Multiple Endpoints
Jiaxiao Shi, 2006
Kaiser Permanente
Dissertation: Improved Estimation of the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses with Applications to Adaptive Control of FDR and Drug Screening
Zhiping Sun, 2005
Merck
Dissertation: Generalized Lifetime Regression with Censoring
Heping He, 2004
Dissertation: Higher-Order Asymptotic Normality of Approximations to the Modified Signed Likelihood Ratio Statistic for Regular Models with Two Applications
Gary Harntsbarger, 2002
Dissertation: Identification limits in survival analysis with dependent loss to follow-up
Alexandre Xavier Ywata de Carvalho, 2002
Dissertation: Mixtures-of-experts of generalized linear time series
Hua Li, 2001
Dissertation: An experimental response model for bivariate association
Shuguang Huang, 2001
Dissertation: Higher-order inference in models for censored survival data
Brent Logan, 2001
Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Dissertation: Contributions to multiple endpoints and dose finding
Xiangyang Liu, 2000
Johnson and Johnson
Dissertation: Model selection for unbiased estimating equations
Shengyan Hong, 1998
Abbott Laboratories
Dissertation: Automatic Bandwidth Selection and Data-Driven Estimators in a Semiparametric Regression Model
Joan Z. Yu, 1998
Risk Management, Household Credit Services
Dissertation: Bayesian Model Comparison: Computation of the Marginal Likelihood
Jason A. Osborne, 1997
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Dissertation: Inference for Exponential Order Statistics Models
Yi-Lin Chiu, 1997
Clinical Statistics, Abbott Laboratories
Dissertation: Measures of Association and Regression Models for Ordinal Variables
Jill R. Glassman, 1995
Intersystems, Inc., and Columbia University
Dissertation: Estimation of Spectral Moments and the Classification of Spatial-Temporal Electrical Patterns during Ventricular Fibrillation
Edward C. Malthouse, 1995
Integrated Marketing Communications Department, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Nonlinear Partial Least Squares
Daniel B. Hall, 1994
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Dissertation: Extended Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Data
Paul Coe, 1993
Dominican University
Dissertation: Exact Repeated Confidence Intervals for Binomial Parameters in Group Sequential Experiments
Eric D. Nordmoe, 1993
Department of Mathematics, Kalamazoo College
Dissertation: Entropy-Based Prediction of Categorical Response Variables in Scanner Panel Data
Jiahe Qian, 1993
Educational Testing Service
Dissertation: Minimum Mean Square Error Estimation in Stratified Sampling