2021-2022 PhD Job Market Candidate Board

Candidates

Candidates
Gracia Dong Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo. Areas of Interest: Monte Carlo, Quasi-Monte Carlo, Simulation, Numerical Integration Statistics, Publications: On the dependence structure of scrambled (t, m, s)-nets Supervisors: Christiane Lemieux
Sean Hellingman Website \| Email \| CV Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, Wilfrid Laurier University. Areas of Interest: Sports Analytics, Applied Statistics Publications: Psychosocial factors and cancer incidence (PSY-CA): Protocol for individual participant data meta-analyses Analysis of a Successful Draft with Mixed Effects Logistic Regression Models Social selectivity in higher education: A case study of Canada and the Czech Republic Supervisors: Dr. Zilin Wang, Dr. Mary Thompson
Yawo Kobara Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario. Areas of Interest: Operation Research, Statistics, Biostatistics, Actuarial Science, Finance. Supervisors: David Stanford, Camila de Souza
François-Michel Boire Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario. Areas of Interest: Finance, Economics, Statistics. Publications: American Option Pricing with Importance Sampling and Shifted Regressions. Efficient Variance Reduction with Least-Squares Monte Carlo Pricing. Shaping the future: Policy shocks and the GDP growth distribution. Supervisors: Lars Stentoft, R. Mark Reesor
Jeffrey Negrea Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. Areas of Interest: Statistical Learning Theory, Computational Statistics, Online Learning, Applied Probability. Publications: Minimax Optimal Quantile and Semi-Adversarial Regret via Root-Logarithmic Regularizers. Relaxing the IID Assumption: Adaptively Minimax Optimal Regret via Root-Entropic Regularization. Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for SGLD via Data-Dependent Estimates. Supervisor: Daniel M. Roy
Dylan Spicker Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo. Areas of Interest: Causal Inference; Dynamic Treatment Regimes; Measurement Error; Machine Learning; Interpretability; Biostatistics. Publications: Measurement error and precision medicine: Error-prone tailoring covariates in dynamic treatment regimes Nonparametric Simulation Extrapolation for Measurement Error Models (Preprint) Generalizations to Corrections for the Effects of Measurement Error in Approximately Consistent Methodologies (Preprint) Supervisors: Michael Wallace, Gracy Yi
Fan Wang Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. Areas of Interest: Statistical Genetics Publications: A flexible summary-based colocalization method with application to the mucin Cystic Fibrosis lung disease modifier locus. LocusFocus: Web-based colocalization for the annotation and functional follow-up of GWAS. Genetic association and transcriptome integration identify contributing genes and tissues at cystic fibrosis modifier loci. Supervisor: Lisa Strug, Lei Sun
Zehao Xu Website \| Email \| CV Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo. Areas of Interest: Data Visualization, Data Science, Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning, Statistics. Publications: A Grammar Of Interactive Graphics. Exploring data by interactive visualization: an introduction to the loon system. Supervisor: Wayne Oldford