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Marc Cassagnol (MA in Mathematics, Graduate Diploma in Financial Engineering)
Marc Cassagnol is a Product Specialist with IBM Risk Analytics, an organization that develops enterprise risk management solutions. His interests include data modeling, derivative pricing, programming, statistical analysis, and operational risk.
Heather Krause (MA Statistics)
Heather Krause is the founder of Datassist, a global statistical consulting firm that specializes in working on complex research problems for non-profit and NGO organizations. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways, and using cutting-edge visualization methods to visualize the results.
Recent PhDs
| First Name | Last Name | Thesis Title | Year | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Campbell | Symbolic Evaluations Inspired by Ramanujan’s Series for 1/pi | 2022 | Michael Zabrocki & Ada Chan |
| Gabriela | Gonzalez Martinez | Bandwidth Selection for Level Set Estimation in the Context of Regression and a Simulation Study for Non Parametric Level Set Estimation When the Density Is Log-Concave | 2022 | Hanna Jankowski |
| Mohammed | Althubyani | Epidemic Dynamics Modelling and Analysis for the Respiratory Infectious Diseases: Control, Prevention and Treatment | 2022 | Jane Heffernan |
| Sirous | Homayouni | Topics in Fomin-Kirillov Algebra | 2021 | Nantel Bergeron |
| Yi | Zhu | Mathematical Modeling of Coupled Ion and Water Transport in Biological Tissues | 2021 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Pei | Yuan | Monitoring, Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Leafhopper Pests in Tea Plantations | 2021 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Shengwen | Yang | Laplacians on Nonisotropic Heisenberg Groups with Multi-Dimensional Center | 2021 | Man Wah Wong |
| Mahnaz | Alavinejad | Renewal Equations Applied to Evaluation of Interventions for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases | 2021 | Jianhong Wu |
| Hom | Kandel | Efficient Conservative Numerical methods for fluid flow problems with Interfaces | 2021 | Dong Liang |
| Jemisa | Sadiku | Dynamical Modeling and Data Clustering with Applications to Tick Population Dynamics and Finance | 2020 | Jianhong Wu |
| Aubin | Nzokem | Stochastic and Renewal Methods Applied to Epidemic Models | 2020 | Neal Madras |
| Peter | Mercurio | On the Topic of Portfolio Optimization | 2020 | Yuehua Wu |
| Elena | Aruffo | Disease Modelling on Measles Immunity: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses | 2020 | Jane Heffernan |
| Arash | Islami | Symmetric Functions as Characters of Hyperoctahedral Group | 2020 | Mike Zabrocki |
| Masoud | Ataei | Portfolio Optimization Using Financial Chaos Index and Time-Homogeneous Top-K Ranking | 2020 | Michael Chen & Zijiang Yang |
| Nathan | Gold | Opto-Physiological Modelling: On Light Interaction in Skin Tissue | 2020 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Sergio | Garcia Balan | Results on Star Selection Principles and Weakenings of Normality in Psi-Spaces | 2020 | Paul Szeptycki |
| Shanhan | Qin | Statistical Methods for Complex and/or High Dimensional Data | 2020 | Amy Wu |
| Andrea | Vaccaro | C+ – Algebras and the Uncountable: A Systematic Study of the Combinatorics of the Uncountable in the Noncommutative Framework | 2019 | Ilijas Farah |
| Bin | Sun | Statistical Modelling for Complex Data | 2019 | Amy Wu |
| Allysa | Lumley | A Study Of L-Functions: At The Edge Of The Critical Strip And Within | 2019 | Youness Lamzouri |
| Yisub | Kye | Economic Capital Analysis with Portfolios of Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Risks | 2019 | Edward Furman |
| Sawitree | Boonpatcharanon | Semiparametric Multivariate Density Estimation Using Copulas and Shape-Constraints | 2019 | Hanna Jankowski |
| Qunxing | Xue | A High Order Method For Analyzing The Electromagnetic Response Of An Array Of Thin Wires | 2019 | Seyed Moghadas |
| Affan | Shoukat | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Agent-Based Modelling: A General Framework With Case Studies | 2019 | Seyed Moghadas |
| Hangjing | Wang | Adjusted Empirical Likelihood Method And Parametric Higher Order Asymptotic Method With Applications To Finance | 2019 | Augustine Wong/Cindy Fu |
| Damjan | Kalajdzievski | Some Independence Results For Amenable Group Actions, Universal Graphs, And Construction Schemes | 2019 | Juris Steprans |
| Dongwei | Wei | Some Aspects Of Change Point Analysis | 2018 | Yuehua Wu |
| Yiyuan | Wang | Transmission Dynamics Of Mosquito-Borne Diseased:Modeling, Analysis, Prediction And Control | 2018 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Shicheng | Wu | High Dimensional Generalized Estimating Equation Estimation Consistency And Model Selection Consistency | 2018 | Xin Gao |
| Xuan | Li | Statistical Inference For High-Dimensional Genetic Data | 2018 | Cindy Fu, Steven Wang |
| Yong | Yang | Dynamical Analysis, Data Fitting And Optimization In Disease Models And Online Advertising Systems | 2018 | Jianhong Wu |
| Shu Xiao | Li | Theta Maps For Combinatorial Hopf Algebras | 2018 | Nantel Bergeron |
| Eric | Ens | Block Systems Of Ranks 3 And 4 Toroidal Hypertopes | 2018 | Asia Weiss |
| Yanhua | Tian | Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Discrete Log-Concave Distribution With Applications | 2018 | Hanna Jankowski |
| Yufeng | Lin | Some Aspects Of Statistical Analysis Of Financial Time Series Data | 2018 | Yuehua Wu/Steven Wang |
| Don | Yu | The Effect Of Temperature On West Nile Virus Transmission Dynamics | 2018 | Huaiping Zhu/Neal Madras |
| Fenghao | Yang | On Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits And First-To-Default Type Problems | 2017 | Alexey Kuznetsov/Thomas Salisbury |
| Hao | Bai | Mixed Response Model in Credit Risk Modelling | 2017 | Xin Gao |
| Longbin | Chen | Mathematical And Statistical Models Of Culex Mosquito Abundance And Transmission Dynamics Of West Nile Virus With Weather Impact | 2017 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Mahdis | Azadbakhsh | Composite Likelihood: Multiple Comparisons And Non-Standard Conditions In Hypothesis Testing | 2017 | Xin Gao/Hanna Jankowski |
| Yaser | Eftekhari | Geometry Of Point-Hyperplane And Spherical Frameworks | 2017 | Walter Whiteley |
| Silva | Konini | Scale-Free Networks In Molecular Biology: Algorithms And Random Walks Analyses | 2017 | E.J. Janse van Rensburg |
| Farid | Aliniaeifard | Normal Supercharacter Theories | 2017 | Nantel Bergeron |
| Alessandro | Vignati | Logic And C*-Algebras: Set Theoretical Dichotomies In The Theory Of Continuous Quotients | 2017 | Ilijas Farah |
| Xiaoying | Sun | Some Aspects On Data Modelling | 2017 | Yuehua Wu |
| Nanwei | Wang | Discrete Hierarchical Log-Linear Models | 2016 | Helene Massam |
| Yurong | Cao | Statistical Modelling Of Mosquito Abundance And West Nile Virus Risk With Weather Conditions | 2016 | Huaiping Zhu/Xin Gao |
| Qiong | Li | Bayesian Estimation Of Graphical Gaussian Models With Edges And Vertices Symmetries | 2016 | Xin Gao/Helene Massam |
| Pavan | Aroda | Essays In Quantitative Risk Management For Financial Regulation Of Loss Models | 2016 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Hai | Zhang | Option Pricing In Non-Competitive Markets | 2016 | Hyejin Ku |
| Yousef | Akhavan | Power Optimization of Wind Turbines Subject to Navier-Stokes Equations | 2016 | Michael Chen/Dong Liang |
| Xiaoxi | Duan | Complex Powers of a Fourth-Order Operator: Heat Kernels, Green Functions and L^p-L^p’ Estimates | 2016 | Man Wah Wong |
| Francisco | Kibedi | Maximal Saturated Linear Orders | 2016 | Juris Steprans |
| Song | Shi | Imaginary Whittaker Modules for Extended Affine Lie Algebras | 2016 | Yun Gao |
| Jianxi | Su | Multiple Risk Factors Dependence Structures with Applications to Actuarial Risk Management | 2016 | Edward Furman |
| Angjelina | Konini | Dynamics of Naturally Acquired Antibody Against Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype “A” and the Impact of Vaccination | 2016 | Seyed Moghadas |
| Mirela | Cara | Optimal Retirement Investment Strategies under Health Shocks and Jump Diffusion Processes | 2015 | Huaxiong Huang |
| David | Fernandez | Strongly Summable Ultrafilters: Some Properties and Generalizations | 2015 | Juris Steprans |
| Saeed | Ghasemi | Rigidity of Corona Algebras | 2015 | Ilijas Farah |
| Daniel | Hackmann | Analytical Methods for Levy Processes with Applications to Finance | 2015 | Alexey Kuznetsov |
| Haohan | Huang | Theoretical and Computational Analysis of Credit and Liquidity Risks with Multiple Defaults | 2015 | Huaxiong Huang/Hongmei Zhu |
| Martino | Lupini | Operator Algebras and Abstract Classification | 2015 | Ilijas Farah |
| Varvara | Nika | Machine Learning and its Application in Automatic Change Detection in Medical Images | 2015 | Paul Babyn/Hongmei Zhu |
| Min | Xu | Some Aspects of Statistical Volatility Analysis | 2015 | Yuehua Wu |
| Yawen | Xu | Combining Test Statistics and Information Criteria for High Dimensional Data Integration | 2015 | Xin Gao/Steven Wang |
| Ahmed | Abdelrazec | Modeling, Dynamics and Optimal Control of West Nile Virus with Seasonality | 2014 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Oliver | Jovanovski | Convergence Rate Analysis of Markov Chains | 2014 | Neal Madras |
| Nemanja | Kosovalic | Algebraic-Delay Differential Systems: Co-Extendable Banach Manifolds and Linearization | 2014 | Jianhong Wu/Yuming Chen |
| Jiawei | Li | Finite Pseudo-Differential Operators, Localization Operators for Curvelet and Ridgelet Transforms | 2014 | Man Wah Wong |
| Chunhua | Shan | Theory and Applications of High Codimension Bifurcations | 2014 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Yegor | Sorokin | Pricing and Hedging Options in Discrete Time with Liquidity Risk | 2014 | Hyejin Ku |
| Jinlian | Wang | The Impact of Stochastic Interest and Mortality Rates on Ruin Probability and Annuitization Decisions Faced by Retirees | 2014 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Xiao | Yu | Efficient Numerical Methods for Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations of Flow over Topography and Application | 2014 | Dong Liang |
| Qiang | Yuan | High Order Energy-Conserved Splitting FDTD Methods For Maxwell’s Equations | 2014 | Dong Liang |
| Xiaofeng | Zhou | Statistical Modeling to Information Retrieval for Searching from Big Text Data and Higher Order Inference for Reliability | 2014 | Augustine Wong |
| Carolina | Benedetti | Combinatorial Hopf Algebras of supercharacters of Lie type D | 2013 | Nantel Bergeron |
| Maureen Shannon | Collinson | Modelling the effect of mass media on influenza transmission and vaccine uptake | 2013 | Jane Heffernan |
| Rory | Lucyshyn-Wright | Riesz-Schwartz extensive quantities and vector-valued integration in closed categories | 2013 | Walter Tholen |
| Natasha | May | Some Base and Covering Properties of Topological Spaces | 2013 | Paul Szeptycki |
| Babak | Pourziaei | Mathematical Models of Depth Perception in Weakly Electric Fish | 2013 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Yongxiu | She | Comparing Higher Order Likelihood Inference for Location-Scale Model | 2013 | Augustine Wong |
| Serdar | Sozubek | A Topological Theory of (T,V)-categories | 2013 | Walter Tholen |
| Xiaotian | Wu | Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Tick Population Dynamics and Tick-Borne Disease Spread | 2013 | Jianhong Wu |
| Dongdong | He | Interfacial Flows on Microfluidic Devices: Modeling and Computations | 2012 | Huaxiong Huang |
| Martin | Merener | Mathematical Results on Database Privacy | 2012 | Steven Watson |
| Jude | Brighton | Some Results in Computability and the Proof Theory of Predicate Modal Logic | 2012 | George Tourlakis |
| Yuanyi | Pan | Performance Measures of Rare Events Targeting | 2012 | Jianhong Wu |
| Yun | Qiao | Pricing and Hedging Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits | 2012 | Thomas Salisbury |
| Yehuda | Schwartz | Some Results in Computability and the Proof Theory of Predicate Modal Logic | 2012 | George Tourlakis |
| Xiaoping | Shi | Some Problems in Change Point Analysis | 2012 | Yuehua Wu |
| Adnan | Sljoka | Algorithms in rigidity theory with applications to protein flexibility and mechanical linkages | 2012 | Walter Whiteley |
| Fang | Chang | Third Order Likelihood Inference on Stationary Time Series Analysis | 2011 | Steven Wang/Augustine Wong |
| Zhi | Chen | Basis for Diagonally Alternating Harmonic Polynomials of Low Degree | 2011 | Nantel Bergeron |
| Cheng | Liu | A New Adaptive Multi-resolution Time-frequency Representation with Applications in Studying Brain Functions | 2011 | Hongmei Zhu |
| Tianshu | Ma | Applications of Wishart Family on Bayesian Inference | 2011 | Helene Massam |
| Shahla | Molahajloo | Heat Semigroups of Hermite Operators and Twisted Laplacians | 2011 | Man Wah Wong |
| Elissa | Ross | Geometric and Combinatorial Rigidity of Periodic Frameworks as Graphs on the Torus | 2011 | Walter Whiteley |
| Hsiao-Hsuan | Wang | Empirical Likelihood Method and its Applications | 2011 | Yuejiao Fu/Steven Wang |
| Han Qiuzi | Wen | A Hybrid-domain Approach on Modeling Nonstationary Time Series with Multiple Time-varying Deterministic Components | 2011 | Augustine Wong |
| Yan Yan | Wu | Third-Order Likelihood Inference in Graphical Model and Mixed Model | 2011 | Augustine Wong |
| Qingling | Zeng | Febrile Respiratory Illnesses in Health Care Setting: Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, Prediction and Control | 2011 | Huaiping Zhu |
| Marija | Zivkovic Gojovic | Structured Pertussis Models: Transmission Dynamics, Vaccination and Resurgence | 2011 | Dong Liang/Jianhong Wu |
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