Students

Ph.D. students and year of graduation

• Mark Handcock, 1989
  Professor of Statistics and Sociology, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
  Dissertation title:  "Inference for spatial Gaussian random fields when the objective is prediction."
• Xufeng Niu (joint with George Tiao), 1991
  Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  Dissertation title:  "Space-time ARMA models for satellite ozone data."
• Biao Zhang, 1992
  Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo
  Dissertation title: "Nonparametric function estimation."
• Patricia Styer, 1993
  Researcher, Timothy Case Associates, Central Point, Oregon
  Dissertation title: "The effect of temporal aggregation in gamma regression models used to estimate trends in sulfate deposition."
• Ernesto Floresroux, 1993
  Partner, McKinsey and Company, Rio de Janeiro
  Dissertation title: "Estimation of the nearest neighbor distribution for spatial point processes."
• Linda Collins, 1995
  Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
  Dissertation title: "Inter-event distance methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point processes."
• Dongping Fang, 1996
  Master Statistician, SPSS, Inc.
  Dissertation title: "Modeling the correlation structure of the TOMS ozone data and lattice sampling design for isotropic random fields."
• Jeff Picka, 1997
  Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick
  Dissertation title: "Variance reducing: modifications for estimators of dependence in random sets."
• Montserrat Fuentes,1998
  Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
  Dissertation title: "Prediction of random fields and modeling of spatial-temporal satellite data."
• Dongseok Choi (joint with George Tiao), 1999
  Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
  Dissertation title: "Modeling latitudinal correlations for satellite data."
• Ji-Meng Loh, 2001
  Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  Dissertation title: "Estimating the large-scale structure of the universe using QSO carbon IV absorbers."
• Zhengyuan Zhu, 2002
  Assistant Professor, Statistics Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Dissertation title: "Optimal sampling design and parameter estimation of Gaussian random fields."
• Leah Welty, 2003
  Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University
  Dissertation title: "Spatial statistics for modeling phytoplankton."
• Mikyoung Jun, 2005
  Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University and Visiting Scientist, NCAR
  Dissertation title: "Space-time models and their application to air pollution."
• Ethan Anderes, 2005
  NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoc, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  Dissertation title: "Estimating deformations of isotropic Gaussian random fields."
• Hae-Kyung Im, 2005
  Postdoc, CISES, University of Chicago
  Dissertation title: "Two problems in environmetrics."
• Xiaofeng Shao, 2006
  Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation title: "Statistical evaluation of multiresolution model output and spectral analysis for nonlinear time series."
• Chae Young Lim, 2007
  Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
  Dissertation title: " Characteristics of a Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodograms ."

Postdoctoral research associates

• Jean Quashnock,1997-1999
  Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Carthage College
• Jon Stroud (joint with Barry Lesht), 1999-2001
  Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Serge Guillas (joint with George Tiao), 2002-2004
  Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dana Draghicescu (joint with John Frederick), 2002-2004
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College of CUNY