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Congratulations to our 2020 Ph.D. Graduates! Ph.D. Students Successfully Defended Their Doctoral Dissertations

Congratulations to our 2020 Ph.D. Graduates!

http://stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-PhD-Grads-1-1.mp4

 

  1. Jonathan Auerbach 

    Some Statistical Models for Prediction

    Sponsor: Shaw-Hwa Lo

  2. Adji Bousso Dieng

    Deep Probabilistic Graphical Modeling

    Sponsor: David Blei

  3. Guanhua Fang 

    Latent Variable Models in Measurement: Theory and Application

    Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying

  4. Promit Ghosal

    Time Evolution of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

    Sponsor: Ivan Corwin

  5. Lydia Hsu 

    Partition-based Model Representation Learning

    Sponsor: Shaw-Hwa Lo

  6. Sihan Huang 

    Community Detection in Social Networks: Multilayer Networks and Pairwise Covariates

    Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying

  7. Peter JinHyung Lee

    Spike Sorting for Large-scale Multi-electrode Array Recordings in Primate Retina

    Sponsor: Liam Paninski

  8. Brian Ling 

    Statistical Analysis of Complex Data in Survival and Event History Analysis

    Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying

  9. Yixin Wang 

    Multiple Causal Inference with Bayesian Factor Models

    Sponsor: David Blei

  10. Wenda Zhou 

    New perspectives in cross-validation

    Sponsor: Arian Maleki

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