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. 2023 - Yueru Dong
Sept. 2022 - Hui Guo (co-supervised)
Sept. 2021 - Yijia Weng
Sept. 2020 - Pingbo Hu
Thesis: Statistical Learning of Noisy Data: Classification and Causal Inference
with Measurement Error and Missingness
Sept. 2020 - Yu Shi
Sept. 2020 - Yuan Bian (co-supervised)
Sept. 2019 - Jingwei Lu(co-supervised)
Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2023 Charvadeh Yasin Khadem
Thesis: Optimizing Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Q-Learning: Complications due to Error-Prone Data
and Applications to COVID-19 Data
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sept. 2019 - Nov. 2023 Jingyu Cui
Thesis: Multivariate Regression Analysis for Data with Measurement Error, Missing Values,
and/or Sparsity Structures
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Sept. 2018 - Jul. 2022 Dylan Spicker(co-supervised)
Thesis: Generalizations to Corrections of Measurement Error Effects for
Dynamic Treatment Regimes
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2020 Qihuang Zhang
Thesis: Inference Methods for Noisy Correlated Responses with Measurement Error
First Job: Assistant Professor, McGill University
May 2017 - Dec. 2020 Haoxin Zhuang (co-supervised)
Thesis: Correlated Data Analysis with Copula Models or Bayesian Nonparametric Methods
First Job: Senior Statistician, Beigene, based in Shanghai, China
Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2020 Junhan Fang
Thesis: Matrix-Variate Regression with Measurement Error
First Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2019 Li-Pang Chen
Thesis: Analysis of Complex Structured Data with Measurement Error
First Job: Assistant Professor, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Sept. 2014 - Apr. 2018 Di Shu
Thesis: Causal Inference with Measurement Error
First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
May 2011 - Apr. 2015 Feng He
Thesis: Multi-State Models with Measurement Error or Misclassification
First Job: Statistician, Bank of Montreal, Toronto
Sept. 2010 - Aug. 2014 Ying Yan
Thesis: Statistical Methods on Survival Data with Measurement Error
First Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
Sept. 2008 - July 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
Sept. 2006 - Aug. 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
Sept. 2005 - Aug. 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. 2023 - Aryan Rezaneshad
Sept. 2023 - Zihan Zhang
2023 Shaoshi Zhang
Thesis: Analysis of Mortality Risk of COVID-19 Patients using Machine Learning
and Statistical Methods
2022 Hui Guo (co-supervised)
Project: Variable Selection for Logistic Regression Models with Misclassified Responses
First Position: Ph.D. student at the University of Western Ontario
2021 Yijia Weng
Essay: Meta-analysis for the Average Incubation Time of COVID-19
First Position: Ph.D. student at the University of Western Ontario
2021 Yuan Du
Thesis: Content Analysis of News and Research Articles on COVID-19 using NLP
First Job: Programmer, London, Canada
2021 Yunxiao Dou (co-supervised)
Essay: A Case Study of Understanding Risk Factors Associated with COVID-19 Mortality
First Position: Ph.D. student at the University of Western Ontario
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
Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2023 Yifan Sun
Sept. 2020 - Dec. 2020 Qihaung Zhang
First Job: Assistant Professor, McGill University
Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020 Li-Pang Chen
First Job: Assistant Professor, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Feb. 2019 - 2021 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
2023 Jinyu Cui
Poster Award for
"Variable Selection in Multivariate Regression Models with Measurement Error in Covariates"
The 2nd CANSSI-NISS Workshop, University of Waterloo, Canada
2023 Yuan Bian
Poster Award for
"A Unified Framework of Analyzing Missing Data and Variable Selection Using Regularized Likelihood"
The 2nd CANSSI-NISS Workshop, University of Waterloo, Canada
2023 Yu Shi
Honorable Mention Poster Award for
"Mixed Latent Graphical Models with Mixed Measurement Error and Misclassification in Variables"
2023 ICSA China Conference, Chengdu, China
2023 Yuan Bian
Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) Summer Institute Travel Award
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2022 Pingbo Hu
A Winner of The Junior Research Award for the paper
"Understanding the Impact of Mismeasured Output on Causal Learning"
2022 ICSA China Conference
2021 Yasin Khadem Charvadeh and Yuan Bian
Honorable Mention for the project
"COVID19 Incubation and Quarantine Times: Is a 14 Day Quarantine Period the Right Quarantine Time?"
The Special COVID-19 Case Study Competition
Biostatistics Section of the Statistical Society of Canada
2020 Junhan Fang
winner of The Sprott Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2020 Qihuang Zhang
winner of The Best Presentation Award on the Research Presentation Day
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
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