Executive Summary of Candidates for Advertised Assistant Professor Position

 

Wednesday, January 19, 2000

Prepared by A.I. McLeod

 

 

There are a total 20 Candidates.  All Candidates have a Ph.D. and only candidates who hold Canadian citizenship or permanent resident visa status are shown.

 

Currently:

6 are short-listed (blue)

9 are declined (red)

5 are undecided

 

1. Candidate:  Alkhamisi, Mahdi

 

Current Position:  Just completed Ph.D. requirements

 

Degrees:  PhD ’99 U of Toronto; MSc Stats UWO ’84; MA Math UWO ’78; MSc Math Baghdad ’70; BSc Math Baghdad ‘67

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Asymptotic Analysis of the One-way Random Effects Models

 

Awards:  none

 

Teaching Experience:  Actuarial courses; mathematics of finance, statistics, calculus, differential equations

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:  none

 

2. Candidate:  Al-Nachawati, Hicham

 

Current Position:  Associate Professor

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Grenoble France ’85; Dr 3cycle Lyon France ’81; Diplome D’etudes Approfondies Lyon ’79; Dip Ed Damascus ’75; BSc Math Damascus ‘74

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  ?

 

Awards: none

 

Teaching Experience:  STAT 439 Data Analysis; STAT 499 Research Projects; STAT 335 Regression Analysis; STAT 111 Probability; STAT 103 Statistical Methods; STAT 101 Introductory Statistics; CSC 151 Structured Programming; Data Structure; CSC 150 Introduction to Computer Programming; CSC 206 Basic programming

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    Al-Nachawati, H. Alwasel, I.A., and Alzaid, A. (1997).  Estimating the parameters of the Generalized Poisson AR(1). J. St. Cmp. Sm., 56, 337-352.

 

2)    M.I. Hendi, Al-Nachawati, H., M. Montasser and I.A. Alwasel (1998).  An Exact Test for HNBUE Class of Life Distributions.  J.St. Cmp. Sm., 60, 261-275.

 

 

3. Candidate:  Berenhaut, Kenneth

 

Current Position:  Ph.D. Candidate

 

Degrees:  MA Mathematics ’97 Georgia; MSC Mathematics Manitoba ’94; BA Math Manitoba ‘91

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Geometric Renewal Convergence Rates and Stochastic Orderings

 

Awards:  1999-2000 Graduate School Assistantship, U of Georgia; 1999 Best Senior Student Award, Department of Statistics, Georgia; 1999 R.L. Anderson Student Paper Award, Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference; 1995-96 Graduate School Assistantship, U of Georgia; 1993-1994 Faculty of Science Postgraduate Fellowship, U of Manitoba; 1991 Jared Israels Award for undergraduate research in the Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, The University of Manitoba $1500

 

Teaching Experience:  Mat 116 Precalculus; Mat 253 Analytic Geometry & Calculus; Stat 2000 Elementary Statistics

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    Berenhaut, K.S., and Lund, R.B. (1999a).  Renewal Convergence Rates and Stochastic orderings, submitted to Annals of Probability.

2)    Berenhaut, K.S., and Lund, R.B. (1999b).  Convergence Rates for Markov Chains with Ordered States, in preparation.

3)    Berenhaut, K.S. (1999).  Recursions, Power Series and Geometric Renewal Convergence Rates, submitted to Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society.

 

4. Candidate:  Braun, John          

 

Current Position:   Associate Professor

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. ’92 UWO; MSc ’87 UWO; BSc ’85 Calgary

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Statistical Inference for an Interacting Particle System

 

Awards:  NSERC Equipment $9843 Winnipeg, 1999; NSERC Research $47250 Winnipeg, 1996-99; NSERC Equipment $16000, shared, Winnipeg, 1996; NSERC Equipment Grant $27000, shared, Winnipeg, 1994; NSERC Research Grant ($36000) Winnipeg, 1993-95; OGS $16500 UWO 1990-91.

 

Teaching Experience:  Stats 3101 Regression and ANOVA; Stats 2501 Quality Control; Stats 3903 Statistical Packages; Stats 1201 Introduction to Statistics; Stats 2903 Statistical Computing; Stats 2601 Time Series and Forecasting; Stats 1301 Statistical Analysis; Stats 3401 Discrete Stochastic Processes; Stats 3201 Mathematical Statistics I; Stats 2701 Applied Probability; Stats 1501 Elementary Statistics for the Biological Sciences.

 

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    Deng, Y. Braun, W.J., Zhao, Y.Q. (1999).  M/M/l queueing system with delayed controlled vacation.  (Accepted by OR Transactions, September 1999).

2)    Li, W., Braun, W.J. and Zhao, Y.Q. (1998) Stochastic scheduling on a repairable machine with Erlang uptime distribution.  Advances in Applied Probability 30 1073-1088.

3)    Zhao, Y.Q., Li, W. and Braun, W.J. (1998).  Infinite block-structured transition matrices and their properties, Advances in Applied Probability 30 365-384.

4)    Braun, W.J. and Kulperger, R.J. (1998) A bootstrap for point processes.  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 60 129-155.

5)    Braun, W.J. and Kulperger, R.J. (1997).  Properties of a Fourier bootstrap method for time series.  Communications in Statistics A 26 1329-1337.

6)    Zhao, Y.Q., Li, W. and Braun, W.J. (1997).  On a decomposition for infinite transition matrices.  Queueing Systems 27 127-130.

7)    Braun, W.J. (1995) An illustration of bootstrapping using video lottery terminal data.  Journal of Statistics Education v. 3 (electronic, 18KB).

8)    Braun, W.J. and Kulperger, R.J. (1993).  Differential equations for moments of an interacting particle process on a lattice.  Journal of Mathematical Biology v. 31 199-214.

 

5. Candidate:  Cai, Jun

 

Current Position:  Post-doctoral fellow 

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Statistics Specializing in Actuarial Science, Concordia University; M.S. Statistics Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai; BS Math Yangzhou University, Yangzhao.

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  On general bounds and asymptotic expressions for compound distributions, stop-loss transforms and ruin probabilities in risk theory

 

Awards:  NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

 

Teaching Experience:  Actsc 231 Mathematics of Finance Waterloo; Stats 287 Stat Lab I Concordia; Mathematical Statistics, Probability theory, Statistics for Economics and Business Students, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Measure Theory,  Yangzhou University.

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    Cai, J. and Kalashnikov, V. (2000) NWU property of a class of random sums.  Journal of Applied Probability. Vol. 37, No. 1, to appear.

2)    Cai, J. and Garrido, J. (1999)  A unified approach to the study of tail probabilities of compound distributions.  Journal of Applied Probability  Vol. 36, No. 4, to appear.

3)    Cai, J. and Garrido, J. (1999) Two-sided bounds for ruin probabilities when the adjustment coefficient does not exist.  Scandinavian Actuarial Journal.  1: 80-92.

4)    Cai, J. and Garrido, J. (1998)  Aging properties and bounds for ruin probabilities and stop-loss premiums.  Insurance:  Mathematics and Economics. 23: 33-44.

5)    Cai, J. and Wu, Y. (1997).  Characterizations of life distributions under some generalized stochastic orderings.  Journal of Applied Probability.  34:  711-719.

6)    Cai, J. and Wu, Y. (1997).  Some improvements on the Lundberg bound for the ruin probability.  Statistics and Probability Letters.  33:  395-403.

7)    Cai, J. (1994).  Characterizations of life distributions by moments of extremes and sample mean.  31: 148-155.

8)    Cai, J. (1994)  Structures of systems with exponential life and HNBUE components.  IEEE Transactions on Reliability 43: 97-100.

9)    Cai, J. (1994)  Reliability of a large consecutive-k-out-of-r-from-n:F system with unequal component reliability.  IEEE Transactions on Reliability  43:  107-111.

 

6.  Candidate:  Drekic, Stevo (Steve)

 

Current Position:  NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Waterloo, ‘00

 

Degrees:  Post-doctoral Toronto ’99; Ph.D. Western ’99 Statistics; M.Sc. Windsor ’95 Windsor; B.A. Windsor ’94 Honours Mathematics & Statistics

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Methods to Reduce Delay in Pre-emptive Priority Queues

 

Awards:  1st Place prize in the Student Paper Competition at the 7th Annual South Western Ontario Operations Research Day ’98; UWO Statlab Prize ’97; University of Windsor Board of Governors Medal in Mathematics ’94; Hewlett Packard Calculator Award ‘91

 

Teaching Experience:  SS241b Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists; SS452b Stochastic Processes; AS325a Introduction to Operations Research/Management Science

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    S. Drekic and D.A. Stanford.  Reducing delay in preemptive repeat priority queues.  To appear in Operations Research (Accepted September 1999)

2)    S. Drekic and D.A. Stanford.  Threshold-based interventions to optimize performance in preemptive priority queues.  To appear in Queueing Systems:  Theory and Applications  (Accepted November 1999). 

3)    D.A. Stanford and S. Drekic.  Interdeparture time distribution in åIMi/Gi/1 priority queues.  To appear in Queueing Systems:  Theory and Applications.  (Accepted November 1999).

 

 

 

 

 

 

7)  Candidate:  Fang, Zhide

 

Current Position:   Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. ’99 University of Alberta; MSc ’89 Central China Normal University; BSc ’86 Central China Normal University

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  “Robust Extrapolation Design”

 

Awards:  University of Alberta travel award

 

Teaching Experience:  Categorical Data Analysis; System Reliability Analysis; Excel; Minitab; SPSS; vector analysis; mathematical analysis, probability theory and statistics, linear algebra

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

 

1)  Zhide Fang and Douglas P. Wiens (1999).  Robust extrapolation designs and weights for biased regression models with heteroscedastic errors.  Canadian Journal of Statistics, to appear.

 

2)  Zhide Fang (1999).  Robust extrapolation designs for biased polynomial models.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear. 

 

 

 

8. Candidate:  Hand, Karen

 

Current Position:  Post-doctoral fellow

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Guelph ’99* Statistics; M.Sc. Guelph ’91* Statistics; BSc Guelph Wildlife Biology ‘86

* includes periods of leave for child birth

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Confidence Regions in Multivariate Calibration.

 

Awards:  OGS 1994; Gertrude Cox Scholarship (Honorable Mention) 1993; NSERC PGS 1991-93; University of Guelph Dean’s Scholarship 1991; University of Guelph Graduate Scholarship 89, 91, 93.

 

Teaching Experience:  Undergraduate:  Experimental Design; Statistics I, Statistics II.  Graduate:  Statistical Methods for Health Sciences

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    Hand, K.J. (1999).  An asymptotic confidence region for multivariate calibration.  Accepted for submission to the Journal of the American Statistical Association, November 1999.

2)    Hand, K.J. and Kim, P.T. (1999).  Multivariate Bayesian Estimation of Relative Potency.  Submitted to Biometrika, December 1999.

3)    Kim, P.T., Carter, E.M., Hubert, J.J. and Hand, K.J. (1993).  Shrinkage estimators of relative potency.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88:615-621.

 

 

 

9. Candidate:  Hashim, S. Aysha

 

Current Position:    ?

 

Degrees:   Ph.D. University of Missouri, ’99 Nuclear Engineering; MS Bowling Green State University ’88 Applied Statistics; MS University of Columbo ’84 Nuclear Science; BS, University of Columbo ‘75 Natural Science.

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title: ?

 

Awards:  Teaching Excellence, Learning Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, ’84-’87; Merit Certificate of Teaching, Upward Bound Program, Bowling Green State University, ’88.

 

Teaching Experience:  ?

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: none?

 

 

 

 

10. Candidate:  Jiang, Qingshan

 

Current Position:  Post-Doctoral Fellow/Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Chiba University ’96 Mathematics; MS Hebei University ’85 Mathematics; BS Hebei University ’82 Mathematics

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  ?

 

Awards:  ?

 

Teaching Experience:  none

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    D. Dawson, Jang Q., D. Slonowsky, R. Srinivasan, “Measurement based on adaptive traffic prediction using fuzzy logic”, Technical Report Series of MATICS (1999).

2)    Jiang Q., E. Aitnouri, S. Wang, and D. Ziou, “Automatic Detection for Ship Target in SAR Imagery Using PNN-model”, accepted by Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (1999).

3)    Jaing, Q., S. Wang, and D. Ziou, “A further investigation for fuzzy measures on metric spaces”, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 80 (1999) pp293-297.

4)    Li, J., M. Yasuda, Q. Jiang, H. Suzuki, Z. Wang, and G. J. Klir, “Convergence of sequence of measurable functions on fuzzy measure spaces,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems 87 (1997) 317-323.

5)    Jiang, Q. and H. Suzuki, “Fuzzy measures on metric spaces,”  Fuzzy Sets and Systems 83 (1996)  pp99-106.

 

 

 

11. Candidate:  Joshi, Shrikant N.

 

Current Position:  Visiting Associate Professor, Waterloo; Associate Professor Indian Statistical Institute

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Indian Statistical University ’83 Statistics;  M.Sc. Bombay University ’75 Statistics;  B.Sc. Bombay University ’73  Statistics

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  ?

 

Awards:  ?

 

Teaching Experience:  Graduate Courses: Asypmtotic Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Regression & Correlation; Decision Theory, Large Sample Methods, Statistical Inference, Nonparametric Methods, Probability Theory I and II, Linear Models, Probability I, Design of Experiments; Undergraduate Courses:  Various service courses in Statistics and Probability

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    “A Property of MLE”, Sankhya Ser. B, Vol.42, 1980, pp 143-152. (with J.K. Ghosh and B.K. Sinha).

2)    “Expansion for posterior probability and integrated Bayes Risk’ Proc. of Third Purdue Sympo. on Decision Theory and Related Topics, Vol.1, 1982, pp 403-54.  Ed. Shanti S. Gupta and James Burger, (with J.K. Ghosh and B.K. Sinha).

3)    “Comparison of the likelihood ratio, Rao’s and Wald’s tests and conjecture of C.R. Rao” Sankhya Ser.A, Vol.45, 1982, pp 226-46. (with T.K. Chandra).

4)    “Expansion for Bayes risk in case of double exponential family” Sankhya Ser.A, Vol.46, 1984, pp 64-74.

5)    “Asymptotic expansion associated with posterior confidence sets” Sankhya Ser.A, vol.48, 1986, pp 232-39.

6)    “On the asymptotic distribution of an estimate of the change point in a failure rate”  Comm. in Statistics, Theory and Methods, Vol.21, 1992, pp 3571-88. (with J.K. Ghosh).

7)    “On asymptotic distribution of generalized M-estimates” Sankhya Ser.A, Vol.55, 193, 99 312-320 (with J.K. Ghosh).

8)    “Joint Distribution of concomitants of selected order statistics”.  Bernoulli 1(3), 1995, pp 245-255. (with H.N. Nagaraja).

 

 

 

12. Candidate:  Mansi, Morid G.

 

Current Position:  External Examiner, School of Post Graduate Studies, Unversity of Khartoum, Sudan

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. North Carolina State University ’72 Experimental Statistics; M.Sc. University of Aberdeen, Scotland ’65 Applied Statistics; B.Sc. University of Alexandria, Egypt ’59 Animal Breeding and Production

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  ?

 

Awards:  ?

 

Teaching Experience:  Basic Statistics, Experimental Design & Analysis of Variance, Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Biometrics, Mathematical Statistics

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:  none – many reports and government publications

 

 

13. Candidate:  Nadarajah, Saralees

 

Current Position:  Lecturer in Statistics, University of Nottingham, UK

 

Degrees:  Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, University of Plymouth; Ph.D. University of Sheffield ’94 Statistics; M.Sc. University of Sheffield ’91 Statistics with Distinction

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title: ? 

 

Awards:  ?

 

Teaching Experience:  Business Models I, Business Simulation, Engineering Statistics, Options in Biometry, Quantitative Methods and IT, Statistics for Science, Case Studies in Applied Statistics, Computing, Generalised Linear Models, Statistical Concepts and Methods, Stochastic Processes, Topics in Applied Statistics

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:  none

 

 

14.  Candidate:  Reesor, Mark R.

 

Current Position:   Instructor

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Statistics and Actuarial Science, Waterloo June 2000; Ph.D. Statistics North Carolina State University, ’98; Master of Mathematics, Co-op Statistics Waterloo ’96; BSc Math and Stats McGill ‘94

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title: 

 

Awards:  Outstanding TA Waterloo, Spring 1999; NSERC PGS B current; NCSU Gertrude Cox Fellowship Award ’98; OGS’99

 

Teaching Experience:  variety of undergraduate statistics exams

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

 

15.  Candidate:  Sapna, Kandiyan P.

 

Current Position:  Post Doctoral Fellow, Western

 

Degrees:  Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Technology ’94; M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology ’89 Mathematics; B.Sc. Stella Maris College, University Madras ’87 Mathematics (Minor: Physics & Statistics)

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title: 

 

Awards:  Research Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology ’89-’94; Post Doctoral Fellowship, National Board of Higher Mathematics ’94-‘96

 

Teaching Experience:  undergraduate and graduate level courses taught in operations research and in applied mathematics

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:

1)    S. Kalpakam and K. P. Sapna:  On (S-1,S) Perishable Systems with Stochastic Leadtimes, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 21, no. 6, 95-104, (1995).

2)    K. P. Sapna:  Optimal Control of an Inventory System with Priority Customers, presented at The International Conference on New Directions in Applied Mathematics, 19-22 December 1995, Hyderabad, India and submitted to Naval Reserch Logistics.

3)    S. Kalpakam and K. P. Sapna:  An Environment Dependent (s,S) Inventory System, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, vol. 33, no. 3, 81-93, (1997).O. Berman and K. P. Sapna: Optimal Control of Service for An Inventory System at Service Facilities, accepted Computers and OR.

Plus 9 other similar papers in Operations Research journals and 8 additional working papers.

 

16. Candidate:  Shi, Peide

 

Current Position: Senior Statistician, Imaging Research Inc., Brock

 

Degrees:  Ph.D.  Acadamia Sinica ’92 Mathematical Statistics; Yunnan University China ’84 Mathematics

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Asymptotic Behaviour of Piecewise polynomial and B-spline M-estimates in Regression

 

Awards: 

 

Teaching Experience:  Applied multivariate analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Robust Statistics, Regression Analysis, nonparametric statistics, Advanced statistics

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications:  none

 

 

 

17. Candidate:  Singh, Sarjinder

 

Current Position:  Instructor, University of Southern Maine

 

Degrees: PhD Punjab Agricultural University ’91 Statistics; MSc Punjab Agricultural University ’87 Statistics; BS Punjab University

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  ?

 

Awards:  ISAS-Young Scientist Award ‘94

 

Teaching Experience:  ?

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    Singh,S., Singh, R., and Mangat, N.S. (1999).  Some alternative strategies to Moors’ model in randomized response sampling. J. Statist. Plann. & Inference (In press).

 

 

18. Candidate:  Slonowsky, Dean

 

Current Position:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Fields Institute and MITACS; Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Ottawa ’99 Mathematics; Began M.Sc ’93 was granted a transfer to Ph.D ’94; B.Sc. Winnipeg ’93 Pure Mathematics

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Central Limit Theorems for Set-Indexed Strong Martingales

 

Awards:  1999 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award; Chancellor’s Gold Medal for highest standing in the 4-year Science program ’93; University Gold Medal for highest standing in Mathematics ’93; NSERC PGS A Scholarship, Graduate 1993-’95; NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, ‘91

 

Teaching Experience:  STA 107, An Introduction to Probability and Modeling; MAT 2125, Mathematical Analysis I

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    D. Dawson, Q. Jiang, D. Slonowsky and R. Srinivasan, “Adaptive bandwidth allocation via fuzzy control theory” (In progress).

2)    D. Dawson, Q. Jiang, D. Slonowsky and R. Srinivasan, “Measurement-based adaptive traffic prediction using fuzzy logic” (Preprint), 32 pages.

3)    Portions of: B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2000), Set-Indexed Martingales, Chapman & Hall.

4)    D. Slonowsky and B.G. Ivanoff (1999), “A central limit theorem for set-indexed strong martingales” (Preprint; received by The Annals of Probability), 30 pages.

5)    D. Saada and D. Slonowsky, “The set-indexed Ito integral” (In progress).

6)    D. Slonowsky (1999), “Strong martingales: their decompositions and quadratic variation” (Preprint; received by the Journal of Theoretical Probability), 36 pages.

 

19. Candidate:  Wang, Hao

 

Current Position:  Financial Engineer, Algorithmics Inc.

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Carleton ’95 Probability & Statistics; M.Sc. Carleton ’92 Analysis; M.Sc. Wuhan University China ’85 Science Degree in Probability  & Statistics; BSC Wuhan University China ’80 Mathematics

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Topics in stochastic processes motivated by the problem of modeling spatial data in the biological and physical sciences.  Four open problems for “superprocesses” were solved.  Supervisor: D. Dawson.

 

Awards:  Senate Medal in the Ph.D. program ’95; Ontario Graduate Scholarship ’95; Dewan Chand and Ratna Devi Marwah Memorial Scholarship for the most outstanding Graduate student ’94; Various Scholarships ’91-‘95

 

Teaching Experience:  junior undergraduate, senior undergraduate and graduate courses.  Teaching dossier submitted.

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    Zerbs, M. and Wang, H. (1999).  Scenario Generation with Generalized Multivariate t-Distribution.  To appear in Algorithmics Research Quarterly.

2)    Dawson, D., Vaillancourt, J., and Wang, H. (1998).  Local Time for a Class of Measure-valued Branching Diffusion in a Random Medium.  Submitted to Statistics and Probability Letters.

3)    Wang, H. (1998).  A Class of Measure-Valued Branching Diffusions in a Random Medium.  Stochastic Analysis and Applications.  16(4), 753-786.

4)    Wang, H. (1997).  State classification for a class of measure-valued branching diffusion in a Brownian Medium, Probability Theory and Related Fields.  109, 39-55.

 

20. Candidate:  Zarepour, Mahmoud

 

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

 

Degrees:  Ph.D. Statistics Toronto’97; M.Sc. Shiraz/Iran, Statistics ’87; BSc Ferdowsi/Iran, Statistics ‘85

 

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  “Some topics on infinite variance random variables.”

 

Awards: 

1)    NSERC Research $9240/year 1998-2001

2)    U of Ottawa start up grant  $7,000 1997-98

3)    NSERC Post-doc fellowship $35,000/year 1997-98

4)    OGS $12,000 and tuition waiver 1995-96

5)    Iranian Governments Scholarship worth approximately $100,000 1991-94

 

 

 

Teaching Experience: 

 

Major Refereed Journal Publications: 

1)    Ishwaran, H. and Zarepour M. (1999)  Exact and approximate sum-representations for the Dirichlet process.  Under review by Statistica Sinica, 18 pages.

2)    Ishwaran, H. and Zarepour M. (1999)  Markov chain Monte Carlo in approximate Dirichlet and beta-two parameter process hierarchical models.  To appear in Biometrika, 27 pages.

3)    Zarepour, M. and Knight, K. (1999).  Bootstrapping convex hulls.  Statistical and probability letters, 45, 55-63.

4)    Zarepour, M. and Knight, K. (1999)  Bootstrapping point process with Some applications.  Stochastic processes and their applications, 84, 81-90.

5)    Zarepour, M. and Banjevic, D. (1999).  Maximum autoregressive processes with order 1.  Submitted to Journal of Time Series Analysis, 10 pages.