Statistics Ph.D. Alumni

NOTE: Please email your updated information to mitzi@galton.uchicago.edu. If you are not listed or if you find errors, do let me know! If you don't find a particular person, it may be by privacy choice.

This page also lists a few graduates of the university who did not take a statistics degree, but were otherwise closely associated with this department.

Last update:  7/15/08

2008

 

  • Baoguan Ke, Associate, Morgan Stanley.

 

2007

 

  • Angela Hugeback, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington.
  • Su Yeon Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Integrative Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Chae Young Lim, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Michigan State University.
  • Zhibiao Zhao, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University.

 

2006

 

  • Elliot Bernstein, Quantitative Research Analyst, Susquehanna International Group, Framingham, Massachusetts
  • Abigail Jager
  • Irina Ostrovnaya, Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
  • Xiaofeng Shao, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois.
  • Jie Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

2005

 

  • Ethan Anderes, Postdoc, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Hae Kyung Im, Quant Trading Research Associate. Credit Suisse
  • Mikyoung Jun, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
  • Timothy Thornton, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Maoxia Zheng, Biostatistician, Genentech

 

2004

 

  • Peter Bouman, Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • David Clifford, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia
  • Wanli Min, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • Rituparna Sen, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
  • Liping Tong, Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

 

2003

 

  • Regina Dolgoarshinnykh, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  • George Kordzakhia, Vigre Postdoc, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Martin Romero, Program for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Jongwoo Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Ewha Women's University
  • Zhiqiang Tan, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
  • Ricardo Velazquez, Especialista, Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal, Mexico
  • Leah Welty, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University

 

2002

 

  • James Servidea, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Zhengyuan Zhu, Assistant Professor, Statistics Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

2001

 

  • Virgil Radu Craiu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
  • Danielle Harvey, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of California
  • Ji Meng Loh, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  • Seongjoo Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Seoul
  • Andrew Strahs, Ph.D., Wyeth Research, Biostatistics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Lei Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto
  • Jian Zhang, UBS AG Investment Bank, Chicago, Illinois
  • Lan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago

2000

 

  • Takaki Hayashi, Associate Professor, Keio University, Graduate School of Business Administration
  • Ernst-Jan Wit, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University

 

1999

 

  • Dongseok Choi, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Monserrat Fuentes, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
  • Jiyau Li, UBS O'Connor, Chicago, Illinois
  • Dan Nicolae, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of Chicago

 

1998

 

  • Florin Vaida, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
  • Steve Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Swarthmore College
  • Saunak Sen, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco

 

1997

 

  • Chih-Rung Chen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University
  • Nancy Clements, Emmes Corporation, Maryland
  • Bo Liang, Morgan Stanley, Philadelphia
  • Molly Pei-Lin Huang (Ph.D. Psychology)
  • Jeffrey Picka, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick
  • Anna Pluzhnikov, Research Associate, Department of Human Genetics,The University of Chicago
  • Kaare Simonsen, ABN-AMRO, Copenhagen

 

1996

 

  • Dongping Fang, Master Statistician, SPSS, Inc.
  • Michael Frigge, deCode Genetics, Iceland
  • Hui-Nien Hung, Associate Professor, Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University
  • Nicole Lazar, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia

1995

 

  • Walter Ambrosius, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • John Barnard (Ph.D.), Section Head, Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • Linda Collins, Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
  • Li Ming Dong, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
  • David van Dyk, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
  • Qi Yu Zhang, Director of Statistics, BD Bioscience, San Jose, California

 

1994

 

  • Siu-Kai Chan (Ph.D.)
  • Emmanuel Lazaridis (Ph.D.)
  • Sangun Park
  • Zhenming Shun, Statistical Specialist, Department of Biostatistics, Janssen Research Foundation, New Jersey
  • Fred Wright, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

1993

 

  • Ernesto Flores-Roux, Partner, McKinsey and Company, Rio de Janeiro
  • Mark Irwin, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  • Mark Levenson, Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Peter Meyer (Ph.D.), Director, Section of Biostatistics, Rush University Medical Center
  • Patricia Styer, Manager, Biostatistics, College of American Pathologists

 

1992

 

  • Ming Long Lam, SPSS Inc., Illinois
  • Bing Li, Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
  • Xiaojing Xiang (Ph.D.)
  • Jianming Ye (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Accountancy, Zichlin School of Business, CUNY
  • Biao Zhang, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo

1991

 

  • Richard Chappell, Professor, Departments of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Statistics, University of Wisconsin
  • Melinda Drum, Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago
  • Carla Inclan, Housing Analysis and Research, Freddie Mac
  • Jun Liu, Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  • Xufeng Niu, Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • Xiaotong Shen, Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

 

1990

 

  • Michael Beach, M.D., Ph.D., Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 

1989

 

  • Mark Handcock, Professor of Statistics and Sociology, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
  • Valen Johnson, M. D. Anderson
  • John Kolassa, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
  • Louis Rizzo, Westat

 

1988

 

 

1987

 

  • Thomas Severini, Professor and Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  • Paul Vos, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

 

1985

 

  • Daniel F. Heitjan. Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Theodore G. Karrison. Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
  • Kim-Hung Li, Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Nathaniel Schenker, Adjunct Professor, JPSM; and Senior Scientist for Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland at College Park

 

1984

 

  • Maureen Lahiff, Academic Coordinator & Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

 

1983

 

  • Susan Shott

 

1982

 

  • Daniel Schafer, Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis
  • Martin Tanner, Professor, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University

 

1981

 

  • C. Hendricks Brown, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida
  • Pradip Kumar Sen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

 

1980

 

  • James Fill, Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Barbara Heller, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Robert Kass, Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Daniel Keenan, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia

 

1979

 

  • Kent Bailey, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

 

1978

 

  • Michael Friedman
  • John Marden, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1977

 

  • Andries DeWitt
  • Shang-Ping Lin

 

1976

 

  • Stella Machado, Biostatistics, Food and Drug Administration

 

1975

 

  • Lung Ying Lin, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Hsing University
  • Verjee Suleman

 

1974

 

  • Robert Fay
  • James Koziol, Division Head and Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation
  • James McBride

 

1972

 

  • Tar Chen
  • Alan Dyer, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School
  • Jagdish Gupta
  • James Landwehr, AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey
  • John Wiorkowski, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Texas at Dallas

 

1971

 

  • Francis Kinley Larntz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota
  • Divakar Sharma
  • Ishay Weissman, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

 

1970

 

  • Donald Miller
  • Shelby Haberman, Center for Statistical Theory and Practice, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey

 

1969

 

  • Jack Marshall
  • Lalitha Sanathanan
  • Miron Straf

 

1968

 

  • Charles Land
  • James Yarnold

 

1967

 

  • Rabindra Bhattacharya
  • Beverley Causey

 

1966

 

  • Richard Floyd Gundy
  • Mitchell Snyder

 

1965

 

  • Innis Gillian Abrahamson
  • Alastair John Scott
  • Bruce Trumbo

 

1964

 

  • Frank Carlborg
  • Heebok Park

 

1963

 

  • Johannes Hendrik Ventner
  • Robert K. Tsutakawa

 

1962

 

  • John P. Gilbert
  • Stephen R. Webb
  • Ying Yao

 

1960

 

  • Herbert T. David
  • Bob E. Ellison

 

1958

 

  • Morris DeGroot
  • Albert Madansky

 

1956

 

  • Roy Radner