Took on Aug 24, 2018. Left - right: Xin Liu, Yuping Yang, Boyi Hu, Peijun Sang, Jiguo Cao, Yunlong Nie, Jianghu Dong, Tianyu Guan, Yajie Zhou, Chuyuan Lin
Current Members:
Muye Nanshan, PhD Student, Sep 2023 - Present
Siying Ma, PhD Student, Sep 2024 - Present Co-supervised with Prof. Lloyd Elliott
Alana Deng, PhD Student, Sep 2025 - Present Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang
Niwanthi Muthukuda Arachchilage, PhD Student, Sep 2025 - Present Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi
Minrui Cao, Master Student, Sep 2024 - Present
Alumni
Peijun Sang, PhD Student, Sep 2014 - Aug 2018 Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Peijun Sang Won the Pierre Robillard Award at the Statistical Society of Canada in 2019.
From SSC website: The Pierre Robillard Award recognizes the best PhD thesis defended at a Canadian university in a given year and written in the fields of probability or statistics. In any given year, no more than one winner will be selected.
Haolun Shi, Postdoc, Oct 2018 - September 2020 Co-supervised with Prof. Jian Pei Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Tianyu Guan, PhD Student, Sep 2015 - November 2020 Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, Canada.
Haixu (Alex) Wang, PhD Student, Sep 2017 - June 2023 Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Canada.
Jianghu (James) Dong, PhD Student, Jan 2015 - December 2018 Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA.
Yunlong Nie, PhD Student, Sep 2014 - September 2018
NSERC Doctoral Scholarship
Current Position: Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
Zhenhua Lin, Master, Sep 2011 - Aug 2013 Thesis Title: Some Perspectives Of Smooth And Locally
Sparse Estimators
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore (after obtaining his PhD at University of Toronto and doing postdoc at University of California, Davis)
Xin Liu, Master, Sep 2012 - Aug 2013 Thesis Title: Parameter Estimation for Catch Equations
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (after obtaining his PhD at University of Western Ontario)
Baisen Liu, Postdoc, Sep 2011 - May 2013 Current position: Lecturer in Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China
Hua Liu, PhD in Statistics, September 2017--May 2021 Co-supervised with Prof. Jinhong You, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Xiong Cai, PhD in Statistics, September 2017--May 2021 Co-supervised with Prof. Liugen Xue, College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Statistics and Data Science, Nanjing Audit University, China
Haitao Chen, PhD in Energy Management, September 2017--May 2021 Co-supervised with Prof. Zhaohua Wang, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology
Current position: Research Scientist, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China
Efehan Ulas, Postdoctoral Association, December 2019-- October 2020, SFU Title of Projects: Modeling Multiple Functional Outcomes
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey
Cédric Beaulac, CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2021--November 2022, SFU Co-supervised with Prof. Farouk Nathoo and Prof. Faisal Beg.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Département de mathématiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Asad Haris, Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2021--August 2022, UBC Co-supervised with Prof. Ali Ameli, Prof. Nadja Kunz, and Prof. Will Welch.
Current Position: Methodologist, Statistics Canada
Zheyuan Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2021--December 2022, SFU Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University, China
Boyi Hu, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2018 - August 2023 Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Yuping Yang, PhD in Statistics, September 2015 - July 2024, SFU (on Leave in 2020-2024) Co-supervised with Prof. Richard Lockhart.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Yuxi Normal University, China
Sidi Wu, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2018 - July 2024 Awards: SSC Best Oral Presentation Award (2023)
SSC Best Poster Presentation Award (2022)
Robin Insley Statistics Workshop Teaching Excellence Award (2023)
David Eaves Award (2021)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Fuzhou University, China
Bingfan Liu, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2022 - August 2025 Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi.
Title of thesis: Dynamic Survival Prediction using Longitudinal Images
Current position: Amazon.com, Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Jiarui (Erin) Zhang, PhD in Statistics, Sep 2019 - July 2025 Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang.
Title of thesis: Robust Bayesian Dimension Reduction with Applications to Outlier Detection and Cluster Analysis
Matthew Parker, PhD Student, Sep 2020 - December 2025 Co-supervised with Prof. Lloyd Elliott
Rina Wang, Master in Statistics, September 2022--December 2023, SFU Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi
Current position: Data Scientist, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC)
Elijah Cavan, Master in Statistics, September 2021--December 2022, SFU Co-supervised with Prof. Tim Swartz
Awards: 2022 NFL Big Data Bowl; Randy Sitter Annual Graduate Scholarship ;
2022 Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) - Master's Best Poster Presentation (3rd Prize)
Current position: Junior Data Scientist, Pinnacle, Toronto, Canada
Barinder Thind, MSc Student, Sep 2018 - April 2020 Thesis Title: Functional Neural Networks for Scalar Prediction
Current position: Data Analyst, Later
Joel Therrien, MSc Student, Sep 2017 - December 2019 Thesis Title: An Analysis of Loan Prepayment Using Competing Risks Random Forests
Current position: Data Scientist, Landcor Data Corporation
Yajie Zhou, MSc Student in Computer Science, Sep 2016 - August 2019 Co-supervised with Prof. Jian Pei Current position: Software Engineer, Amazon Wed Services
Chuyuan (Charlene) Lin, MSc Student, Sep 2017 - April 2019
Current Position: Data Analyst, Emerald City Game
Haixu (Alex) Wang, Master, Sep 2015 - Aug 2017 Thesis Title: Estimating conditional intensity function of a neural spike train by particle Markov chain Monte Carlo and smoothing
Co-supervised with Prof. Qian (Michelle) Zhou Current position: PhD student at Simon Fraser University
Bin Zhao, Master Student, Sep 2013 - Aug 2015 Thesis Title: How does Climate Change Affect Forest Fire Rate in British Columbia?
Current position: BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver
Xin Wang, Master, Sep 2012 - Aug 2013 Thesis Title: Functional data analysis for circular data
Current position: Senior Analyst, Trading Risk and Model Development, TD Bank, Toronto
Jing Cai, Master, Sep 2009 - Aug 2011 Thesis Title: Nonparametric Method and Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for
Parameter Estimation and Prediction
Current position: Senior Manager, Metrics and Analytics, Scotiabank, Toronto
Jia Xu, Master, Sep 2008 - Aug 2010 Thesis Title: Robust Estimation for Differential Equations, Time Series Analysis on Climate Change and MCMC Simulation of Duration-Of-Load Problem
Current position: Financial analyst at the Shanghai ShuJun Fund Management Co., Shanghai, China
Jiyi Chen, Master, Sep 2008 - Aug 2010 Thesis Title: Automated Load Curve Data Cleansing in Power Systems, Co-supervised with Prof. Ke Wang Current position: Software Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shanghai, China
