UCLA Department of Statistics Announcement

2009 UCLA Statistics Commencement

The Department of Statistics is holding its annual Commencement Celebration at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday June 13, 2009 at the IPAM Building.

This year, sixteen students received the Bachelor’s of Science degree in Statistics. The following students have completed their degree requirements or are expected to complete their degree requirements by Summer 2009:

  • Melanie Chan
  • Charles Dang
  • Robert Eisman
  • Kevin Fujii
  • Stephen Kim
  • Victor Louie
  • Ray Mak
  • Jose Manzo
  • Andres William Medina
  • James O'Shea
  • Johnathan Selenkow
  • Matthew Shaffer
  • Norman Tsai
  • Benjamin Wong
  • Jaixi Zhang
  • Chaojie (Jay) Zhou

Five students have completed their degree requirements or are expected to complete their degree requirements with a Minor in Statistics by Summer 2009. These students are:

  • Puini Ha
  • Tu Wang Ng
  • Parsa Sobhani
  • Wing Sum Tsang
  • Joshua Zhou

Twenty-one students have completed their degree requirements or are expected to receive their Masters of Science degree in Statistics by the end of Summer 2009:

  • Xiao Cai
  • Mine Cetinkaya
  • Miles Chen
  • Kuei-yu Chien
  • Robert Clements
  • Xianhui (Cindy) He
  • Pan Jiang
  • Matthew Kugizaki
  • Irina Kukuyeva
  • Paul Jinwook Lee
  • Rui Liu
  • Hai Nguyen
  • Rakhee Patel
  • Jason Somerville
  • Kekona Sorenson
  • Ping Huan Sun
  • Yuliya Yaglovskaya
  • Xiaofei Yan
  • Zhenyu Yao
  • Zhongyang (Thomas) Zhang
  • Mingtian Zhao

Nine students have completed their degree requirements or are expecting to complete their Ph.D. in Statistics by the end of Summer 2009. Their names, dissertation titles and advisor’s names are:

Ariana Anderson
Machine Learning for Classification and Diagnosis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Image Scans, Advisor: Alan Yuille
Janice Brodsky
Open Problems in Genome-wide Association Studies, Advisor: Chiara Sabatti
Ann Chu
Practical Aspects in the Estimation of Space-time Branching Point Process Models for Earthquake Occurrences, Advisor: Rick Paik Schoenberg
Sheela Nair
Finding Fault: Anomaly Detection for Embedded Networked Sensing, Advisor: Mark Hansen
Jacob Porway
Learning and Inference in Hierarchical and Contextual Model for Object and Scenes, Advisor: Song-Chun Zhu
Ka Wong
Anisotropic Spatial Extensions of Stochastic Models for Earthquake Occurrences, Advisor: Rick Paik Schoenberg
Kent Xiaofeng Shi
Mapping Natural Image Patches by Explicit and Implicit Manifolds, Advisor: Song-Chun Zhu
Kin Hing (Fred) Phoa
Analysis and Construction of Nonregular Fractional Factorial Designs, Advisor: Hongquan Xu
Long (Leo) Zhu
Recursive Composition for Modeling, Inference, and Learning in Computer Vision, Advisor: Alan Yuille

All dissertations and theses can be obtained at http://theses.stat.ucla.edu


Date Posted: 2009-05-29, 22:03:00


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