Jiguo Cao

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:

  1. Sidi Wu, PhD Student, Sep 2018 - Present
    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)
  2. Jiarui (Erin) Zhang, PhD Student, Sep 2019 - Present
    Co-supervised with Prof. Liangliang Wang
  3. Matthew Parker, PhD Student, Sep 2020 - Present
    Co-supervised with Prof. Lloyd Elliott
  4. Bingfan Liu, PhD Student, Sep 2022 - Present
    Co-supervised with Prof. Haolun Shi
  5. Muye Nanshan, PhD Student, Sep 2023 - Present

Alumni

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
  3. Tianyu Guan, PhD Student, Sep 2015 - November 2020
    Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, Canada.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Yunlong Nie, PhD Student, Sep 2014 - September 2018
    NSERC Doctoral Scholarship
    Current Position: Data Scientist, Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. Baisen Liu, Postdoc, Sep 2011 - May 2013
    Current position: Lecturer in Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Zheyuan Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2021--December 2022, SFU
    Current Position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University, China
  17. Boyi Hu, PhD Student, Sep 2018 - August 2023
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
  18. 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)
  19. 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
  20. Barinder Thind, MSc Student, Sep 2018 - April 2020
    Thesis Title: Functional Neural Networks for Scalar Prediction
    Current position: Data Analyst, Later
  21. 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
  22. Yajie Zhou, MSc Student in Computer Science, Sep 2016 - August 2019
    Co-supervised with Prof. Jian Pei
    Current position: Software Engineer, Amazon Wed Services
  23. Chuyuan (Charlene) Lin, MSc Student, Sep 2017 - April 2019
    Current Position: Data Analyst, Emerald City Game
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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