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 | 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 | |
Xinyue (Dora) Liu (2017, Statistics) | Respondent Driven Sampling. In co-operation with the Bank of Canada. | |
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 |