Past Undergraduate Theses

Class of 2020

• Rose Graves – Corrupted Data and the Illicit Arms Trade
  • Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky
• 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 Spottiswood – Algorithmic Trading of an Alternative Cryptocurrency Using Sentiment and Volume Based Predictors
  • Advisor: Sayan Mukherjee
• Michael Tan – Investigating Underpricing in Venture-Backed IPOs Using Statistical Techniques
  • Advisor: Shawn Santo
• Trenton Bricken – Learning Fitness Landscapes for Protein Design
  • Advisor: David Banks
• Melody Jiang – Estimating Cell Probabilities for High-Dimensional and Sparse Multinomial Data Using Proper Scoring Rules
  • Advisor: David Dunson

Class of 2019

• Ekim Büyük - Landlords and Evictions: Changes in the Ownership of Multi-Family Rental Properties and Its Impact on Housing Stability in Durham, NC
  • Advisor: Colin Rundel
• Ben Feder - Evaluating Student Creativity and Depth of Data Analysis Projects Based on R Syntax and Packages
  • Advisor: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
• Peter Hase - Interpretable Image Recognition with Hierarchical Prototypes
  • Advisor: Cynthia Rudin
• Daniel Levine - Beating Vegas: Creating a Dynamic Sports Betting Model
  • Advisor: Jerry Reiter
• Robert Rappleye - Modeling Win Probability in NFL Games
  • Advisor: Sayan Mukherjee
• Vivek Sriram - Statistical Analysis of Gut Microbiome Data for Memorial Sloan Kettering Patients Recovering from Leukemia
  • Advisor: Li Ma
• Srini Sunil - Bayesian Decision Theory with Application to Forecasting Sales Data
  • Advisor: Mike West
• Bihan Zhuang - Entity Resolution with an Application to the El Salvadoran Conflict
  • Advisor: Rebecca Steorts

Class of 2018

• 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 Cooper - Modeling Count Relationships in Restricted Social Networks
  • Advisor: Alex Volfovsky
• Anne Driscoll - Examining Injustice in Environmental Toxicity
  • Advisors: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & David Banks
• Tianlin Duan - Aspect-based Opinion Mining with Yelp Restaurant Reviews
  • Advisor: Cynthia Rudin & David Banks
• Angie Shen - Explore Geometric Anisotropy for Point-Referenced Spatial Data
  • Advisor: Alan Gelfand
• James Wu - Matrix Based Anomaly Detection Techniques Applied to Network Attacks
  • Advisor: Peter Hoff
• Sonia Xu - Duke Basketball Passing Networks: An Analysis of Player and Team Dynamics in the Context of Basketball
  • Advisor: Alex Volfovsky
• Huijia Yu - Bayesian Reproducibility
  • Advisor: Merlise Clyde