Yang Liu - “Nonparametric regression and density estimation on a network"
Dissertation Advisor: David Ruppert and Peter Frazier
Initial job placement: Research Analyst - Cubist Systematic Strategies
Skyler Seto - “Learning from less : improving and understanding model selection in penalized machine learning problems”
Dissertation Advisor: Martin Wells
Initial job placement: Machine Learning Researcher - Apple
Jiekun Feng - “Markov chain, Markov decision process, and deep reinforcement learning with applications to hospital management and real-time ride-hailing”
Dissertation Advisor: Jim Dai
Initial job placement:
Wenyu Zhang - “Methods for change point detection in sequential data”
Dissertation Advisor: David Matteson
Initial job placement: Research Scientist - Institute for Infocomm Research
Liao Zhu - “The adaptive multi-factor model and the financial market"
Dissertation Advisor: Martin Wells
Initial job placement: Quantitative Researcher - Two Sigma
Xiaoyun Quan - “Latent Gaussian copula model for high dimensional mixed data, and its applications”
Dissertation Advisor: James Booth and Martin Wells
Initial job placement: Data Scientist at Google