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M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

Below is the schedule of upcoming defences for graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. If you wish to attend, please email statgrad at sfu.ca.

Spring 2023

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

April

     
6
10:00am Zoom
M.Sc. Tianyu Yang
A pedigree-transmission likelihood for multiplex families

March

     
31 1:00pm Hybrid M.Sc. Hashan Peiris Integration of Traditional and Telematics data for Efficient Insurance Claims Prediction

January

     
26
3:00PM
Hybrid
M.Sc. Yaning Zhang
Dimension Reduction Methods with Application in Automobile Insurance

Fall 2022

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

December

     
19 2:00PM
Hybrid M.Sc. Elijah Cavan NHL Aging Curves Using Functional Principle Component Analysis
14 10:30AM LIB 2020 M.Sc. Carla Louw
Post-Selection Inference in Cox Proportional Hazards Models
1
2:00PM
LIB 2020 M.Sc. Wenyuan Zhou
A Complete Framework for Modelling Defined Benefit Pension Plans

November

     
28 4:30PM
LIB 2020 M.Sc. Ryker Moreau
Valuation of NHL Draft Picks using Functional Data Analysis
28 2:30PM LIB 2020 M.Sc. Brendan Kumagai Dynamic Prediction of the National Hockey League Draft with Rank-Ordered Logit Models
15 10:00AM
Hybrid
Ph.D.
Lucas (Yifan) Wu
Soccer Analytics

September

     
23 10:30AM (PDT)
Hybrid
Ph.D.
Shaun McDonald
Novel Approaches to Uncertainty Quantification in Nonparametric Settings