Spotlight on Recent PhD Graduates

Dissertation Title: Inference using Geometry and Density Information in Manifold Data.

Dissertation Committee: Snigdhansu Chatterjee, Yuhong Yang, Qian Qin, Wei Kuo Chen.

What's Next: Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Health.

Dissertation Title: High Dimensional Tobit Regression.

Dissertation Committee: Hui Zou, Yuhong Yang, Xiaotong Shen, and Arnab Sen.

What's Next: As of September, I have been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University.

Dissertation Title: Statistical Learning with Uncertainty Quantification of Large-scale Causal Networks.

Dissertation Committee: Xiaotong Shen, Adam Rothman, Galin Jones, Wei Pan.

What's Next: Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University.

Dissertation Title: Gaussian Processes in Semi-Parametric Models.

Dissertation Committee: Snigdhansu Chatterjee, Galin Jones, Lu Yang, Lin Zhang.

What's Next: I've started as an applied scientist at Sofar Ocean Technologies in San Francisco.

Dissertation Title: Enhancing Summarization and Causal Discovery: Topic Awareness, Normalizing Flows, and Hierarchical Ensembles.

Dissertation Committee: Wei Pan, Xiaotong Shen, Adam Rothman, Jie Ding.

What's Next: I work as an AI & ML Senior Associate in JPMorgan Chase, Machine Learning Center of Excellence. My daily work involves causal modeling and financial modeling. 

Dissertation Title: Diagnostics, Cooperation, and Model Selection for Modern Machine Learning.

Dissertation Committee: Committee chair: Charles Doss, Maury Bramson, Yuhong Yang, Jie Ding.

What's Next: I am working as an assistant professor in the Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky.