| Ph.D. Students |
Thesis Title |
Next Position |
| Gradon Nicholls |
(current) |
| Ilia Sucholutsky (Ph.D., 2021) |
Learning from almost no data |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University |
| Zhoushanyue (Sophie) He (Ph.D., 2021) |
On the Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions in Surveys |
Hoffmann-La Roche |
| Malte Schierholz (Doctorate in Sociology, University of Mannheim, 2019) |
New Methods for Job and Occupation Classification |
Federal Institute for Employment Research (Germany) |
| Hyukjun (Jay) Gweon (Ph.D., 2017) |
Statistical Learning Approaches to Some Classification Problems |
Assistant Professor, University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Jennifer Wong (Ph.D. in Public Policy, RAND Graduate School, 2009) * |
Does bully victimization predict future delinquency? |
Assistant Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University |
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| Master's Students |
| Tiancheng Yang (current) |
(working title) Pre-training in specialized language domains: the case of kKidney BERT
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Ph.D. student (anticipated) |
| Yilun Zhang (M.Sc., 2017) |
Sentiment Analysis of Final Comments in the LISS Panel |
Manulife Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT) |
| Cynthia McLauchlan (M.Sc., 2015) |
"Are Final Comments in Web Survey Panels Associated with Next-Wave Attrition?" |
Statistics Canada |
| Daniel Rodriguez Duque (M.Sc., 2014) |
"A new approach for selecting training data for the classification of text data" |
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
| Yu Luo (M.Sc., 2014) |
"Evaluation questions as predictors of attrition in the LISS survey panel" |
Ph.D student, biostatistics, McGill University |
| Zhoushanyue (Sophie) He (M.Sc., 2013) |
"An exploration of final comments in the American Life Internet survey panel" |
Statistical Analyst, International Tobacco Control (ITC) project, UofW |
| Yanyang Zhao (M.Sc., 2012) |
"An Overview of the Sample Design in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project" |
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| Co-op/work-term Students |
| Rosie Zou (2017, Data Science) |
Learning with Random Forests |
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| Xinyue (Dora) Liu (2017, Statistics) |
Respondent Driven Sampling. In co-operation with the Bank of Canada. |
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| Nicholas Guenther (2015, Double Major in Statistics and Computer Science) |
Learning with Support Vector Machines |
Ecometrica (Montreal) |
| Joey Zhao (2014, Computer Science) |
Natural Language Processing |
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| Undergraduate thesis |
| Cynthia McLauchlan (B.A. in Knowledge Integration, 2014) |
"Does taking a statistics course improve statistical literacy?" |
Master's student |
(*) I was Jennifer's de facto advisor while at RAND; formally a RAND criminologist was named