PhD Alumni 1990-1999

Debjit Biswas  
Advisor: Bruce Hill  
Dissertation: Generalized Two-Color Urn Processes and Approximations
Last Known Position: Vice President, Piramal Enterprises Limited, Mumbai, India

Shao-Wei Cheng 
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Optimal Blocking Schemes and Projection Properties for Fractional Factorial Designs
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Xiaobin Dong  
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Contributions to Statistical Process Control and Robust Parameter Design
Last Known Position: Director, Expedia, Inc. Seattle, WA

David Hunter 
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu and Kenneth Lange  
Dissertation: Optimization Transfer Algorithms in Statistics
Last Known Position: Professor, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

Qing Shen  
Advisor: Julian Faraway  
Dissertation: Linear Models for a Functional Response
Last Known Position: Director of Statistical Analysis, Edmunds.com, Santa Monica, CA

Chuanguo Wang  
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Modeling Temporally Dependant Ordinal Processes
Last Known Position: 

Chiu-Hsing Weng 
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe  
Dissertation: Very Weak Expansions for Sequentially Designed Experiments
Last Known Position: Professor, College of Commerce, NCCU, Taipei City, Taiwan

Jinzhong Liao  
Advisor: Vijay Nair and Julian Faraway  
Dissertation: Inference for Linear and Nonlinear Calibration Problems
Last Known Position: Head of statistical group,  Eisai Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Qian Ye  
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Latin Hypercube Designs for Computer Experiments
Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Julie Berube   
Advisor: Vijay Nair and Chien-Fu Jeff Wu    
Dissertation: Models, Analysis and Efficiency of Estimation for Robust Parameter Designs
Last Known Position: Statistics Manager, BD-Becton, Dickinson & Company, New York,NY

John Warner  
Advisor: Julian Faraway and Edward Roth  
Dissertation: Exact Optimal Designs for Estimating the Minimum of a Quadratic Response Surface via Stochastic Programming.W E req met
Last Known Position: Director, Biostatistics, CHDI Foundation, New York, NY

Huaiqing Wu  
Advisor: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu  
Dissertation: Design, Modeling, and Estimation in Circular Measurement Error Models
Last Known Position: Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Hong Lu   
Advisor: Vijay Nair  
Dissertation: Inference for Acceleration Transforms in Stress Testing with Applications toModels Based on Reliability Kinetics
Last Known Position: 

Mary Catherine Meyer  
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe  
Dissertation: Shape Restricted Inference with Applications to Nonparametric Regression, Smooth Nonparametric Function Estimation, and Density Estimation
Last Known Position: Professor of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Meekyong Park  
Advisor: Jiayang Sun  
Dissertation: Inference in Projection Pursuit Regression
Last Known Position: Statisticians, Google, Mountain View, CA

Chi Lo   
Advisor: Bruce Hill  
Dissertation: Bayesian Estimation of A Bounded Normal Mean
Last Known Position: 

Dongryeon Park 
Advisor: Julian Faraway  
Dissertation: Sequential Design for Nonparametric Regression With Binary Data
Last Known Position: Professor, Hanshin University, Osan, South Korea

Guoxing Soon  
Advisor: Michael Woodroofe  
Dissertation: Large Sample Theory of Empirical Distributions In A Window CensoringModel for Renewal Processes
Last Known Position: 

Sze-Man Tse    
Advisor: Sandor Csorgo  
Dissertation: Gaussian Approximations in The Random Truncation Model
Last Known Position: 

Shou-Ren Lai      
Advisor: Bruce Hill  
Dissertation: Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Analysis for Finite Populations
Last Known Position: 

Yousceek Jeong      
Advisor: Robert Keener  
Dissertation: Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive Designs in Factorial Experiments forQuality Improvement
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