Students
Ph.D. Students:
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Jennifer Wong, Ph.D. (2009) Rand Graduate School. Ph.D. Dissertation in Criminology.
Next position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. ( I was the de facto advisor; formally, a well-known criminologist was named).
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Hyukjun (Jay) Gweon, Sep 2013-Sep 2017. Statistical Learning Approaches to some Classification Problems.
Dissertation Link.
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently: Assistant Professor, Western University.
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Malte Schierholz, 2016-2019. New Methods for Job and Occupation Classification (Sociology; 2nd Advisor; jointly with Frauke Kreuter).
Subsequent position: Federal Institute for Employment Research, Germany.
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Zhoushanyue (Sophie) He, Jan 2016-Jan 2021. On the Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions in Surveys, Dissertation Link.
Subsequent position: Roche Pharmaceutical Company.
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Ilia Sucholutsky, Sep 2017-June 2021, Learning from almost no data. Dissertation Link.
Awards include: Concept Graduate Student Startup Fund Waterloo, AI Institute, 2021.
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University.
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Gradon Nicholls. Sep 2022-ongoing.
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Tiancheng Yang. Jan 2023-ongoing.
Master's Students:
- Yanyang Zhao, (2012), An Overview of the Sample Design in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project, University of Waterloo
- Zhoushanyue (Sophie) He (2013), An exploration of final comments in the American Life Internet survey panel, University of Waterloo,
Next position: ITC project, U of Waterloo
- Yu Luo (2014), Evaluation questions as predictors of attrition in the LISS survey panel, University of Waterloo
- Daniel Rodriguez (2014), A new approach for selecting training data for the classification of text data, University of Waterloo,
Next position: Ottawa Research hospital, then Ph.D. student
- Cynthia McLauchlan (2015), Are Final Comments in Web Survey Panels Associated with Next-Wave Attrition?, University of Waterloo
- Yilun Zhang (2017), Sentiment Analysis of Final Comments in the LISS Panel, University of Waterloo
- Alice Hing-Yee Leung (2021), Predicting Next-Wave Attrition in Web Survey Panels by Applying Machine Learning Methods on Final Comments. University of Waterloo,
Next position: LinkedIn
- Tiancheng Yang (2022), exKidneyBERT: A Language Model for Kidney Transplant Pathology Reports and the Crucial Role of Extended Vocabularies.
University of Waterloo, Dissertation Link,
Next position: Ph.D student.
Undergraduate Students with Thesis:
- Cynthia McLauchlan (Knowledge Integration) (2014), Does taking a statistics course improve statistical literacy?, University of Waterloo
Full Time Research Assistants/ Co-op Students:
- Joey Zhang, Winter 2014, Developing Coding infrastructure for Text mining
- Nick Guenther, Spring 2015, Exploring the use of Support vector Machines in the social sciences
- Dora (Xinyue) Liu, Jan-June 2017, Respondent driven sampling for estimating Bitcoin usage (jointly with the Bank of Canada)
- Rosie (Yuyan) Zou, Spring 2017, Random forests and their implementation
- Tiancheng Yang, Spring 2018, Coding algorithms for multi-label learning