| May 2025 | ||
| Jordan Hamelsky | Identifying Sociodemographic, Spatial, and Geographic Factors in Durham Associated with Incarceration Using Hierarchical Modeling | Advisor: Maria Tackett |
| Sofia Hletko | Optimizing Time Sensitive Stochastic Coupon Use | Advisor: David Banks |
| Dav King | Reducing Psychometric Scales for Correlated Mental Disorders: A Bayesian Probit Approach to Variable Selection | Advisor: Alexander Fisher |
| Kareena Legare | Redefining Player Types within NCAA Division I Women's Soccer | Advisor: Colin Rundel |
| Chase Mathis | A New Method to Adjust for Ordinal Variables With a Pre-Diabetes Case Study | Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky |
| Jack Nowacek | Analysis of Behavior and Fitness in Cooperative Breeding Red-Cockaded Woodpecker | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Athena Ru | NLP vs. LLM for News Sentiment Analysis of Corporate Bonds | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Benny Sun | Factorial Trial Design | Advisor: Fan Li |
| Shelby Tisdale | A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Predicting Fulfillment of TANF Purposes | Advisor: Maria Tackett |
| Adway Wadekar | Assessing Decision-Making Confidence in the Presence of Data Uncertainty | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
| Alan Wang | A Comparison of Various Image-Denoising Algorithms | Advisor: Alexander Fisher |
| Nathan Yang | Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Performance and Effective Educational Policy for Recovery | Advisor: Maria Tackett |
| Jerry Yin | Marginal Likelihood-based Tree Sampling in Bayesian Phylogenetics | Advisor: Alexander Fisher |
| May 2024 | ||
| James Han Gao | Topic Modeling Complaints under the California Environmental Quality Act | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
| Miles Fulton King | Not Just a Bill: A Text-Based Approach to Predicting Legislative Roll Call Votes | Advisor: David Banks |
| Benjamin Harris Thorpe | Advancing Action-Level Soccer Analytics: A Comparative Study of VAEP Model Enhancements Using Division 1 Women's Collegiate Soccer Event Data | Advisor: David Banks |
| December 2023 | ||
| Olivia Zimeng Fan | Assessing Power of Statistical Tests in Dopamine Neurodegeneration for Ordinal Categorical Data | Advisor: Amy Herring |
| Young Hoo Jun | Exploring the Relationship Between Blood Glucose Level and Cognitive Function through Functional Data Analysis | Advisor: Eric Laber |
| Jenny Huang | Detecting Changes in the Transmission Rate of a Stochastic Epidemic Model | Advisor: Jason Xu |
| Brooke Harmon | Addressing Bias on Duke A&S Course Evaluations | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Angela Yoon | Reinforcement learning for branching processes with application to respondent-driven sampling | Advisor: Eric Laber |
| Yihan Shi | Investigate the impact of Confounding Medical Interventions (CMI) in electronic health records (EHR) data | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Eden Deng | Utilization and survival outcomes of lobar, segmental, and wedge resection in early-stage NSCLC with tumors ≤ 2 cm—15 years of progress | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Gaurav Sirdeshmukh | Development and Evaluation of a Gradient-Boosted Approach to Predict 30-day Post-operative Readmission Risk | Advisor: David Dunson |
| Evan Dragich | Exploring Data Science Education: From Tutorials to Assessment | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
| Flora Shi | ESPs: a new cost-efficient sampler for expensive posterior distributions | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Aidan Gildea | Promoting Accessibility in Duke Data Visualization: Creating a Color-Blind Friendly Duke Color Package | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
| Shreyas Hallur | Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees to evaluate the impact of public policies on healthcare expenditures | Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky |
| Naomi Rubin | Evaluating Student Perceptions of Assessment in Quantitative Studies | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
| Caroline Tang | Analyzing the Evolution of Topics in Political Social Media Discourse | Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky |
| Shari Tian | The Atlas of Blood Cancer Genomes (ABCG) Data Visualization and Analysis Module | Advisor: Edwin Iversen, Ph.D. |
| Pei Yi Zhuo | Shifting Habitus with Bridging Ties: Causal Estimates of the Effect of the Rate of High-SES Friendship on Extracurricular Participation | Advisor: Fan Li |
| Leona Lu | Statistical Analysis on The Devonian Hunsrück Slate: Investigation of Water Current Orientation | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Meredith Brown | Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Trends in Payments to Primary Care Physicians in the United States | Advisor: Amy Herring |
| Kiwan Hyun | Bayesian and Non-Parametric Risk Metric | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Abbey List | Classification and Engagement Analysis of Misinformation on Social Media | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Shirley Mathur | Synthetic Data Generation for complex Surveys | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
| Yanchen Ou | Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of US County Level COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Priya Parkash | European Union Allowance (EUA) Pricing and Twitter Sentiment | Advisor: Surya Tokdar |
| Linda Tang | Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Reduced Opioid Dependence Treatment Completion | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Cindy Weng | Tranexamic Acid and Survival Time in Trauma Patient | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
| Yunyao Zhu | Algorithmic Harmonization for Four-Part Baroque Chorales | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Steven Herrera Tenorio | The Nuevo South: A Latent Class Analysis on Neighborhood Integration Among Latin American Immigrants in the US South, 2012-2018 | Advisor: Scott Lynch |
| Lavonne Hoang | ARM-HD: Adaptive Risk-aware Multi-armed Bandit Framework | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Sherry Hu | Certifiable Adversarial Learning for Cyberphysical Security | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Pin-Chian Lee | Block Truncated compound Confluent Hypergeometric (tCCH) Priors for Bayesian Model Selection | Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
| Nathan O'Hara | High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Malavi Ravindran | Quadratic Proportional Hazards Model with High-Dimensional Correlated Predictors | Advisor: David Dunson |
| Daniel Rosen | The Distributive Effects of Carbon Taxes: Evaluating British Columbia's 2008 Program | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
| Ethan Shen | Analyzing Pace-of-Play in Soccer Using Spatio-Temporal Event Data | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
| Mishek Thapa | Functional Effects of Inherited Blindness and Novel Gene Therapies for Treatment | Advisor: Jason Xu |
| Jianyou Andre Wang | There Once Was a Really Bad Poet, It was Automated but you Didn't Know | Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
| Rose Kimberly Graves | Corrupted Data and the Illicit Arms Trade | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
| Yufeng Melody Jiang | Estimating Cell Probabilities for High-Dimensional and Sparse Multinomial Data Using Proper Scoring Rules | Advisor: David Dunson |
| Chiwan Kim | A Black-Scholes-Integrated Gaussian Process Model for American Option Pricing | Advisor: Simon Mak |
| Michael Model | Hitting around the shift: Evaluating Batted-Ball Trends across Major League Baseball | Advisor: David Dunson |
| Daniel Jay Spottiswood | Algorithmic Trading of an Alternative Cryptocurrency Using Sentiment and Volume Based Predictors | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
| Michael Tan | Investigating Underpricing in Venture-Backed IPOs | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
| Trenton Bricken | Learning Fitness Landscapes for Protein Design | Advisor: David Banks |
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Ekim Büyük |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
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Benjamin Feder |
Evaluating Student Creativity and Depth of Data Analysis Projects Based on R Syntax and Packages |
Advisor: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel |
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Peter Byron Hase |
Interpretable Image Recognition with Hierarchical Prototypes |
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
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Daniel Aaron Levine |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Robert Benjamin Rappleye |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Srinivas Emandi Sunil |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Bihan Jenny Zhuang |
Entity Resolution with an Application to the El Salvadoran Conflict |
Advisor: Rebecca Steorts |
| Nathaniel Brown | Bayesian Analysis of Player Performance over Time | Advisor: Mike West |
| Chia-Rui Jerry Chang | Modeling Federal Employees Data to Predict Promotion | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
| Andrew H Cooper | Modeling Count Relationships in Restricted Social Networks | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
| Anne Driscoll | Examining Injustice in Environmental Toxicity | Advisor: David Banks and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel |
| Tianlin Duan | Aspect-based Opinion Mining with Yelp Restaurant Reviews | Advisors: David Banks and Cynthia Rudin |
| Vivek Sriram | Statistical Analysis of the Human Gut Microbiome | Advisor: Li Ma |
| James C Wu | Matrix Based Anomaly Detection Techniques Applied to Network Attacks | Advisor: Peter Hoff |
| Sonia Xu | Duke Basketball Passing Networks | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
| Huijia Yu | Bayesian Reproducibility | Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
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Ethan Isaac Levine |
Performance and Application of Matrix Decomposition and Inversion via Probabilistic Algorithms |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
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Xinyi Lucy Lu |
Local Real-Time Forecasting of Ozone Exposure using Temperature Data |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
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Yueqi Angie Shen |
Explore Geometric Anisotropy for Point-Referenced Spatial Data |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
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Jiaqin Jaslyn Zhang |
Improved Genomic Selection using Vowpal Wabbit with Random Fourier Features |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Liaowang Zoey Zou |
Advisor: Mike West |
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David Clancy |
Bayesian Regression of Sap Flux in Saplings on Environmental Conditions |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
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Neel Mehul Desai |
The Animal Model for Censored Traits |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Yulu Callie Mao |
Modeling Renal Outcomes from Blood Pressure Variability During Non-Cardiac Surgeries |
Advisor: David Dunson |
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Katelyn McKenzie |
Gene Set Analyses Under a Bayesian Partial Factor Regression Model |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Kelvin Niu |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
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Lavanya Parvathy Sunder |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Bridget M Willke |
Forgery Detection in Paintings Using North Carolina Bird Series |
Advisor: David Dunson |
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Tristan C Ballard |
Alternative Approaches to Multi-Model Averaging of Climate Simulations |
Advisor: David Banks |
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Mao I Hu |
An Importance Sampler for Bayesian Model Averaged Logistic Regression |
Advisor: Edwin Iversen |
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Heather B Shapiro-Spetalnick |
Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
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Zenia Zhang |
Simulating Complex Predator-Prey Dynamics Using Agent-Based Models |
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
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Qi Tracy Dong |
Tree Growth Inference and Imputation Using Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling |
Advisors: Alan Gelfand and Fan Li |
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Gabrielle Levac |
Model Selection of Hierarchical Bayes Conjoint Analysis |
Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
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Taylor G Pospisil |
Exploring Political Blog Data with Dynamic Topic Modeling |
Advisor: David Banks |
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Lucas Spangher |
Emulation, Interpolation, and Classification of a Wind Turbine Fluid Model |
Advisor: James Berger |
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Yuci Jenny Chang |
Stochastic Beta Modeling for Asset Pricing by Sector in U.S. Equity Markets |
Advisor: Li Ma |
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David Balthazar |
A Statistical Explanation for the Fall in U.S. Automobile Fatalities |
Advisor: David Banks |
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Christine H Cheng |
Missing Data Refreshment Samples |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Minyang Jack Fu |
On the Variance-Bias Tradeoff of Propensity Score Weighting |
Advisors: Fan Li and Surya Tokdar |
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Daniel Li |
Accounting for Concomitant Variables: Lipid Adjustment for Chemical Exposures |
Advisor: David Dunson |
| Samuel Berchuck | Identifying Point Mutations in High-Throughput RNA Sequencing Data | Advisor: Joseph Lucas |
| Melanie M Fan | Dynamic Factor Models in International Equity Markets | Advisor: Surya Tokdar |
| Ana-Maria K Tenekedjieva | Missing Data in Financial Modeling | Advisors: Michael Brandt and Dalene Stangl |
| Meng Amy Xie | Discount-Weighted Bayesian Model Averaging for Portfolio Decisions in Matrix Variate Dynamic Linear Models | Advisor: Mike West |
| Xiaoxiao Kate Yuan | Persistence, Leverage Effects, Jumps and Heavy-tails in International Equity Markets | Advisor: Li Ma |
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Derrick M Hang |
High-Frequency Bayesian Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Volatility in Finance |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Michael J Seo |
Improved MCMC Sampling for Bayesian CART |
Advisor: Scott Schmidler |
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Xiaocong Sailor Zhou |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Yiwen Zhu |
Contagion: Extreme Values in International Equity Markets |
Advisor: Rebecca Steorts |
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Nihar Chandra Bhupalam |
Statistical Analysis of the Housing Market on a Regional Basis |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Craig Robert Reeson |
Financial Time Series Graphical Modelling and Portfolio Analysis |
Advisor: Mike West |