Students

Future    

 I am currently accepting students with interests in the following general areas. If you are a PhD student at the Statistics department, feel free to drop me a line or stop by my office if interested to learn more.

• Statistics of Extremes – theory, methodology and/or applications.
• Data structures and algorithms for multi-gigabit network traffic streams.  Joint project with Dr Michalis Kallitsis (Merit Network).
• Computational Risk Management – apply optimization theory and large-scale computing to study the effect of statistical dependence on various portfolio risk measures.

Current

• Rafail Kartsioukas, PhD candidate 2018.
  Topic: Topics on Extremes, Spectral Inference, and Functional Data.
• Andrew Yarger, PhD candidate 2019 (co-supervised with Tailen Hsing)
  Topic: Functional data methods with applications to oceanography.
  
• Moritz Korte-Stapff, PhD candidate 2021 (co-supervised with Tailen Hsing)
• Topic: Spatial and space-time functional data models. 

Past

• Zheng Gao, PhD in Statistics, 2020.  Thesis: Fundamental Limits of Support Recovery in High Dimensions.
• Shrijita Bhattacharya PhD in Statistics, 2018.
  Thesis: Outlier Identification in Spatio Temporal Processes.
  Currently: Assistant Professor in the Statistics and Probability Department at Michigan State University.
• Robert Yuen PhD in Statistics, 2015.
  Thesis: Topics on estimation prediction and bounding risk for multivariate extremes
  Currently: Liberty Mutual, Seattle, Washington.
• Pramita Bagchi PhD in Statistics, 2015; co-supervised with M. Banerjee;
  Thesis: Non-standard statistical inference under short and long-range dependence
  Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
• Kohinoor Dasgupta PhD in Statistics, 2012; co-supervised with V. Nair and L. Nguyen;
  Thesis: Inference for neuronal networks using temporal and graphical models.
  Currently: Associate Director Biostatistics Novartis in Hyderabad, India.
• Joel Vaughan, PhD in Statistics 2012; co-supervised with G. Michailidis;
  Thesis: Problems in spatio-temporal modeling, kriging, and prediction of computer network traffic.
  Currently: Statistician, Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo, USA
• Yizao Wang, PhD in Statistics 2012;
  Thesis: Topics on max-stable processes and the Central Limit Theorem
  Winner of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Rackham Graduate School.
  Currently: Associate Professor at University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Kamal Hamidieh, PhD in Statistics 2008, co-supervised with G. Michailidis;
  Thesis: Topics in Statistical Modeling and Estimation of Extremes and Their Dependence.
  Currently: Lecturer in Statistics, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
• Smrithi Srinivasan, Undergraduate Honors Degree 2008.
  Thesis: Modeling of Extremes with Applications to Insurance Claims Data.