Grace Y. Yi
Professor Canada Research Chair in Data Science (Tier 1)
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
Email: gyi5-at-uwo-dot-ca
Grace Y. Yi
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Data Science (Tier 1)
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
Email: gyi5-at-uwo-dot-ca
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Sept. 2019 - Charvadeh Yasin Khadem
Sept. 2019 - Jingwei Lu
Sept. 2019 - Jingyu Cui (co-supervised)
Sept. 2018 - Dylan Spicker (co-supervised)
Sept. 2017 - Qihuang Zhang
Thesis: Accommodating Measurement Error in Analysis of Genomics Data
May 2017 - Haoxin Zhuang (co-supervised)
Thesis: Analysis of Multi-Type Dependent Data Using Copula-Based Models
Sept. 2016 - Junhan Fang
Thesis: Matrix-Variate Regression with Measurement Error
Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2019 Li-Pang Chen
Thesis: Analysis of Complex Structured Data with Measurement Error
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario
Sept. 2014 - Apr. 2018 Di Shu
Thesis: Causal Inference with Measurement Error
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
2015 Feng He
Thesis: Multi-State Models with Measurement Error or Misclassification
First Position: Statistician, Bank of Montreal, Toronto
2014 Ying Yan
Thesis: Statistical Methods on Survival Data with Measurement Error
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
2012 Haocheng Li
Thesis: Longitudinal Data Analysis with Composite Likelihood Methods
First Job: Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
2010 Zhijian Chen (co-supervised)
Thesis: Analysis of Correlated Data with Measurement Error in Responses or Covariates
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto
2008 Baojiang Chen (co-supervised)
Thesis: Statistical Methods for Multi-State Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska
2007 Bethany Joy Giddings (co-supervised)
Thesis: Interval Censored Life History Data with Mismeasured Variables
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario
2005 Yun-Hee Choi (co-supervised)
Thesis: Accelerated Life Regression Modeling of Dependent Bivariate Time to Event Data
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario
Sept. 2019 - Yuan Du
Sept. 2019 - Yunxiao Dou
2019 Yuliang Xu
Essay: An Overview of Classification with Label Noise
First Position: Ph.D. student, University of Michigan
2017 Qihuang Zhang
Essay: SIMEX R Package for Mixed Measurement Error and Misclassification in Covariates
First Position: Ph.D. student, University of Waterloo
2015 Ning Zhang
Essay: A Study of Biomarker and Group Sequential Designs
2014 Doan Doan
Essay: Analysis of Dependent Data under Copula Models
2014 Shuanglu Liu
Essay: Variable Selection Methods
First Job: Biostatistician, University of Western Ontario
2014 Ying Yang
Essay: Overview of the Propensity Score Methods
First Job: Risk Analyst, TD Bank, Toronto
2014 Yuyao Song
Essay: Sufficient Dimension Reduction in Regression
First Job: Biostatistician, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
2012 Wenyi Liu
Essay: Bootstrap Methods: Introduction and Applications
First Job: Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceutical Company, Massasauga, Canada
2012 Long Yu
Essay: Measurement Error in Case-Control Studies
First Job: ATB Financial, Edmonton, Canada
2010 Pan Pan Cheng
Essay: SIMEX Method for Parametric Proportional Odds Measurement Error Models
First Position: Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
2007 Robin Burkhalter
Essay: Longitudinal Data Analysis using the Generalized Estimations Approach and the Random Effects
Models Approach: An Application to Self-Reported Smoking Status among Adolescents
First Job: Biostatistician, University of Waterloo
2005 Xinlei Xie
Essay: Pairwise Likelihood Methods and Their Applications
First Job: Biostatistician, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto
2004 David Dorey
Essay: Random Effects Models for Correlated Data
First Job: Biostatistician, GlaxoSmithKline, Canada
Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020 Li-Pang Chen
Feb. 2019 - Asad Haris (co-supervised)
Feb. 2018 - July 2018 Xin Liu
First Job: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Finance and Economics University, P.R. China
Aug. 2017 - July 2018 Sandip Barui
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama
Aug. 2012 - July 2014 Ning Yang (co-supervised)
First Job: Assistant Professor, Connell University
Oct. 2010 - Sept. 2011 Juan Xiong (co-supervised)
First Job: Assistant Professor, Shenzheng University, P.R. China
Sept. 2008 - Feb. 2009 Baojiang Chen (co-supervised)
First Job: Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska
May - Aug. 2010 Jennifer Nguyen, co-op undergraduate student
Project: A Comparison of the Jackknife and Bootstrap Methods: Advantages and Disadvantages
Jan. - Apr. 2005 Chunsan Charles Choi, co-op undergraduate student
Project: A Simulation Study on the Proportional Hazard Model
2018 Li-Pang Chen and Qihuang Zhang
winners of the Case Study Award for the project "Prediction of Popularity of TED Talks"
Statistical Society of Canada
2016 Di Shu
winner of the Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2016 Qihuang Zhang
winner of The Best Poster Presentation Award
at the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Student Conference
for the poster entitled Estimation of Genotyping Misclassification
Rate for Pedigree Data: A Bayesian Approach
2015 Ying Yan
2015 winner of The Pierre Robillard Award for the best PhD thesis in the
areas of probability and statistics defended in Canada, entitled
Statistical Methods on Survival Data with Measurement Error
2013 winner of the Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2011 Haocheng Li
winner of the Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2010 Zhijian Chen
winner of the Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2009 Baojiang Chen
2009 winner of The Pierre Robillard Award for the best PhD thesis in the areas
of probability and statistics defended in Canada, entitled
Statistical Methods for Multi-State Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data
2008 winner of A Distinguished Student Paper Award
International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR)
2007 winner of the Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Department of Computer Science, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Western University, 1151 Richmond St, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7