Undergraduate Alumni

The Department of Statistical Science established the Statistics Major in 2007 and awarded the first degrees in 2009. Here's the subsequent graduation history, and some data on the current whereabouts of all of our graduates. Click on the column title "Name" to sort alphabetically or "Graduation" to sort by Year.

Please contact the DUS Assistant if you wish to update any information. This page is still under construction!
 

Name Position Graduating Classsort ascending Thesis
Jonathan Cohen UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School 2012 Interactive Agent-Based SIR and Gravity Models with Applications to the H1N1 Flu Pandemic (2009) in California
Jacob Hwang 2012 Impact of Family History on Patient Behavior
Xiaoxiao Yuan Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse in New York 2012 Persistence, Leverage Effects, Jumps and Heavy-tails in International Equity Markets
Ekaterina Petrova New Business at Google (Wildfire Team) in Mountain View, CA. 2012 Employing Regression Discontinuity Design to Evaluate Grant Effect on Dropout Rate in Italian Universities
Adrian Chan 2012 Pricing Financial Derivatives with Multi-Task Machine Learning and Gaussian Process Regression
Andrew Cannon Duke Divinity School 2012 Projecting the Basketball Careers of High School Prospects Through Multiple Regression Series
Yue Jiang Analyst, Putnam Associates 2012 A Novel Approach to Algorithmic Music Generation
Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva 2012 Missing Data in Financial Modeling
Peter Bastian Junior Analyst at Canaras Capital Management 2012 Examining Influences of the Sharp Decline in U.S. Automobile Fatalities, 2004-2009
William Eastman Fixed Income Trading, Morgan Stanley 2012 Bayesian Non-Stationary Modeling of Extreme Values in Interest Rate Fluctuation
Young-Su Kang 2012 Volatility Forecasting: Extended Stochastic Volatility Model
Melanie Fan Investment Banking Analyst at UBS Investment Bank 2012 Dynamic Factor Models in International Equity Markets
Lindsey Skinner Management Consultant, Accenture 2012 Biomarker Prediction of HIV Infection
Xiaocong Zhou Analyst, UBS Investment Bank, NYC 2012 Dynamic Factor Volatility Correlation Models
Sonya Gierada Digital Media Analyst at Merkle 2012 The Basis of Oasis: An Investigation of the Effect of an Online Literacy Platform Longitudinal Growth in Reading Ability
Sarah Gustafson Analyst, American International Group, Enterprise Risk Management Department 2012 Spatial and Temporal Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Ecological Data
Samuel Berchuck PhD student in Biostatistics, UNC 2012 Identifying Point Mutations in High-Throughput RNA Sequencing Data
Meng Xie Analysis Group in Boston, MA. 2012 Discount-Weighted Bayesian Model Averaging for Portfolio Decisions in Matrix Variate Dynamic Linear Models
Hudson Duan Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Radius Location Technologies Inc. 2011 LSAMP and GATA2: aA Study of Correlation Between Two Genes Associated with Coronary Artery Disease
Colin Hwang Actuarial Analyst , Hartford, CT 2011 Causal Inference with Intermediate Variables
Katherine Magee 2011
Aaron McGuire Statistician with Capital One 2011
Yoonsoo (Amy) Oh Assistant Researcher, Yonsei University College of Dentistry (Seoul, S. Korea) Department of Prosthodontics 2011 Statistical Issues in Metabolomics: Bayesian Inference for Ion Detection Machines
Michael Seo MS student, Statistics, Stanford University 2011 Improved MCMC Sampling for Bayesian CART (Advisor: Scott Schmidler)
Siyu Zheng Actuarial Analyst at Chartis Private Client Group 2011 Modelling Non-ignorable Missing Data Mechanism in Panel Studies Using Refreshment Samples
Yiwen Zhu Analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, in the Quantitative Investment Strategies group 2011 Contagion: Extreme Values in International Equity Markets
Derrick Hang Research Associate at NERA Economic Consulting, San Francisco 2011 High-Frequency Bayesian Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Volatility in Finance
Jamal Timsah Actuarial Analyst, Aetna, Hartford, CT 2011 Normative Data for Visual, Auditorym and Sentence Completion Word Finding Using the Snodgrass and Vanderwart 260-Object Set
Sean McCormack Program Trading & Index Rebalance Analyst, Deutsche Bank 2010
Grace Eunjin Joo graduate student in biostatistics, Brown University 2010
Michael Lyngaas Data Analyst at interclick from Yahoo! 2010 Using Random Forests to Multiply Impute Missing Data
Adam Hinnant Analyst at Wells Fargo 2010
Sharon Lee Senior Analyst, Consumer Services Optimization at American Express 2010
Haolan Cai Sr. Financial Analyst, Capital One Finance, Richmond VA 2010 Bayesian Modelling and Analysis of Stochastic Volatility
Nihar C. Bhupalam Algorithmic Trader, TRW Trading Group, Chicago, IL 2009 Statistical Analysis of the Housing Market on a Regional Basis
Anne L. Clark PriceWaterhouseCooper 2009
Ryan D. Gehring Director of Analytics at Zaarly, Inc 2009 Statistics in Poker
Craig R. Reeson Portfolio Manager and Researcher, SECOR Asset Management, NYC 2009 Financial Time Series Graphical Modelling and Portfolio Analysis
Matthew D. Tolson Manager Statistical Services, comScore, Inc 2009 Mapping Language Processing in the Brain