Supervision

Current PhD Students

• David Fleischer, Statistics PhD, McGill University (joint with David Stephens)

• Yixuan Li, Statistics PhD, McGill University (joint with Ariane Marelli and Yue Li)

• Peng Tang, Statistics PhD, McGill University (joint with Abbas Khalili)

• Mingqi Wu, Statistics PhD, McGill University (joint with Qiang Sun)

• Yixiao Zeng, Quantitative Life Science PhD, McGill University (joint with Celia Greenwood)

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

• Chi-Kuang Yeh, CANSSI distinguish postdoctoral fellow, McGill University (joint with Peijun Sang, Qihuang Zhang and Celia Greenwood)

• Peixin Tian, McGill University (joint with Celia Greenwood and Qihuang Zhang)

Current Masters Students

• Tiankang Lu, Biostatistics Masters, McGill University (joint with Qihuang Zhang)

Past PhD Students

• Shomoita Alam (2023)
  Statistics PhD, McGill (joint with David Stephens)
  

  • Dissertation: High-dimensional graphical models for noisy data
    

  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

• Mohamed Ouhourane (2022)
  Statistics PhD, University of Quebec in Montreal (joint with Karim Oualkacha)
  

  • Dissertation: High-dimensional asymmetric quantile and expectile regression and variable group selection

  • Placement: Desjardins

• Yi Lian (2022)
  Biostatistics PhD, McGill University (joint with Robert Platt)
  

  • Dissertation: Some new computational methods in high-dimensional statistical learning in biostatistics
    

  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

• Lamin Juwara (2022)
  Quantitative Life Science PhD, McGill University (joint with Paramita Saha Chaudhuri and Ana Miriam Velly)
  

  • Dissertation: Privacy-preserving regression methods for distributed biomedical data
    

  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Electronic Health Information Laboratory, The Ottawa Hospital

• Sahir Bhatnagar (2018)
  Biostatistics PhD, McGill University (joint with Celia Greenwood)
  

  • Dissertation: Penalized regression methods for interaction and mixed-effects models with applications to genomic and brain imaging data
    

  • Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, McGill University

Past Masters Students

• Peter Park (2021)
  Statistics Masters, McGill University (joint with Xiangfei Meng)
  Placement: Federal Government of Canada

• Xiaonan Da (2021)
  Statistics Masters, McGill University (joint with Abbas Khalili)
  Placement: Statistics Canada

• David Fleischer (2020)
  Statistics Masters, McGill University (joint with David Stephens)
  Placement: Statistics PhD student, McGill University

• Yasmine Bouguerche (2020)
  Statistics Masters, McGill University
  Placement: Desjardins

• Annik Gougeon (2019)
  Statistics Masters, McGill University (joint with Abbas Khalili)
  Placement: Statistics Canada

Past Undergraduate Trainees and Projects

• He Zhou (2018)
  BSc. in Statistics. Visiting Undergraduate Research Trainee. Fudan University.
  Published Research: Tweedie Gradient Boosting for Extremely Unbalanced Zero-inflated Data. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 51(9), 5507– 5529.
  

• Simon Fontaine (2020)
  BSc. in Honours Statistics. McGill University
  Published Research: A Unified Approach to Sparse Tweedie Modeling of Multi-Source Insurance Claim Data. Technometrics, 62(3), 339–356.
  

• Mohan Zhao (2020)
  BSc. in Mathematics. McGill University
  Published Research: Evaluating distributed policies for conjunctive surface water-groundwater management in large river basins: Water uses versus hydrological impacts. Water Resources Research, 58(1)