Statistics & Data Science (SDS) PhD Program


Alumni

Xinghao Qiao

Graduated 2015

Thesis

Sparseness in functional data analysis

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics

Pallavi Basu

Graduated 2016

Thesis

Model selection principles and false discovery rate control

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Indian School of Business

Courtney Paulson

Graduated 2016

Thesis

Optimizing penalized and constrained loss functions with applications to large-scale internet media selection

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, University of Maryland School of Business

Luella Fu

Graduated 2018

Thesis

Nonparametric empirical Bayes methods for large-scale inference

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, San Francisco State University

Weinan Wang

Graduated 2019

Thesis

Large-scale multiple hypothesis testing and simultaneous inference: compound decision theory and data driven procedures

Starting Position

Research Scientist, Snap Inc.

Trambak Banerjee

Graduated 2020

Thesis

Shrinkage methods for big and complex data analysis

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Analytics, University of Kansas School of Business

Joshua Derenski

Graduated 2021

Thesis

Estimation and Inference with Modern Panel Data Sets

Starting Position

Data Scientist, Universal Music Group

Bradley Rava

Graduated 2022

Thesis

Communicating uncertainty in the implementation and creation of fair machine learning algorithms

Starting Position

Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Sydney Business School

Simeng Shao

Graduated 2022

Thesis

Statistical Learning in High Dimensions: Interpretability, Inference and Applications

Starting Position

Amazon.com Inc.

Patrick Vossler

Graduated 2022

Thesis

Nonparametric Ensemble Learning and Inference

Starting Position

Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

Greg Faletto

Graduated 2023

Thesis

Leveraging Sparsity in Theoretical and Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference

Starting Position

Data Scientist, VideoAmp

Mohammad Mehrabi

Graduated 2023

Thesis

Reliability and Robustness in Modern Statistical Learning

Starting Position

Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

Yiqiu Shen

Graduated 2025

Thesis

Advances in High Dimensional Statistics and Probability: Robust Linear Regression and Matrix Concentration Inequalities

Starting Position

Data Scientist, ZipRecruiter

Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan

Graduated 2025

Thesis

Unit-Level Inference and the Path to Personalization: New Age Statistical Shrinkage Methods for Customized Analysis

Starting Position

Data Scientist, Microsoft