Students

Ph.D. students and year of graduation

• Mark Handcock, 1989
  Professor of Statistics, UCLA
  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
  Assistant Professor, Southern Oregon University
  Dissertation title: "The effect of temporal aggregation in gamma regression models used to estimate trends in sulfate deposition."
• Ernesto Floresroux, 1993
  CIDE, Mexico City
  Dissertation title: "Estimation of the nearest neighbor distribution for spatial point processes."
• L Brant Collins, 1995
  Software Engineer, Allstate
  Dissertation title: "Inter-event distance methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point processes."
• Dongping Fang, 1996
  Principal Data Scientist, Anthem, 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
  President, St. Edward's University
  Dissertation title: "Prediction of random fields and modeling of spatial-temporal satellite data."
• Dongseok Choi (joint with George Tiao), 1999
  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
  Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Dissertation title: "Estimating the large-scale structure of the universe using QSO carbon IV absorbers."
• Zhengyuan Zhu, 2002
  Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
  Dissertation title: "Optimal sampling design and parameter estimation of Gaussian random fields."
• Leah Welty, 2003
  Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University
  Dissertation title: "Spatial statistics for modeling phytoplankton."
• Mikyoung Jun, 2005
  ConocoPhillips Data Science Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
  Dissertation title: "Space-time models and their application to air pollution."
• Ethan Anderes, 2005
  Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
  Dissertation title: "Estimating deformations of isotropic Gaussian random fields."
• Hae Kyung Im, 2005
  Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
  Dissertation title: "Two problems in environmetrics."
• Xiaofeng Shao (joint with Wei-Biao Wu), 2006
  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
  Professor, Seoul National University
  Dissertation title: "Characteristics of a Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodograms."
• Marcin Hitczenko, 2011
  Assistant Policy Adviser and Economist, Federal Reserve, Atlanta branch
  Dissertation title: "Modeling Processes on Spheres."
• Darongsae Kwon, 2012
  Postdoc, Duke University
  Dissertation title: "Kriging Prediction with Estimated Covariances."
• Myoungji Lee, 2012
  Senior Data Scientist, Apple
  Dissertation title: "Local Properties of Irregularly Observed Gaussian Fields."
• Xiaohui Chang, 2012
  Associate Professor, Oregon State University, College of Business
  Dissertation title: "Wavelet Analysis in Spatial Interpolation of High Frequency Monitoring Data."
• Joseph Guinness, 2012
  Associate Professor, Cornell University
  Dissertation title: "Nonstationary Models for Spatial-Temporal Processes."
• Stefano Castruccio, 2013
  Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University
  Dissertation title: "Statistical Methods for Climate Ensembles."
• Michael Horrell, 2015
  Staff Data Scientist, Sentilink
  Dissertation title: "Two Projects in Gaussian Random Field Space-Time Statistics."
• Andrew Poppick, 2016
  Assistant Professor, Carleton College
  Dissertation title: "Statistical Methods for Climatic Processes with Temporal Non-Stationarity."
• Wanting Xu (joint with Mihai Anitescu), 2017
  Quantitative Researcher, Citadel
  Dissertation title: "On the Optimal Estimation, Control, and Modeling of Dynamical Systems."

Postdoctoral research associates

• Jean Quashnock, 1997-1999
  Professor, Department of Physics, Carthage College
• Jon Stroud (joint with Barry Lesht), 1999-2001
  Associate Professor, Statistics, Georgetown University
• Serge Guillas (joint with George Tiao), 2002-2004
  Professor, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
• Dana Draghicescu (joint with John Frederick), 2002-2004
  Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College of CUNY
• Mathieu Vrac, 2004-2006
  Senior Research Scientist, CNRS Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
• Zepu Zhang, 2004-2007
  Chief Data Scientist, Mobile Ad
• Li Chen, 2004-2007
  
• Meredith Franklin (joint with Rao Kotamarthi), 2007-2010
  Associate Professor, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
• Ying Sun, 2012-2013
  Associate Professor of Statistics, KAUST
• William Leeds (joint with Elisabeth Moyer), 2013-2014
  Head of Data Science, Sendoso
• Zhen Zhang, 2014-2016
  Statistician, Dow AgroSciences LLC
• Won Chang (joint with Elisabeth Moyer), 2014-2016
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
• Mikael Kuusela, 2016-2017
  Assistant Professor, Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Matz Haugen (joint with Elisabeth Moyer), 2016-2018
  Orbital Insight