Current Students:

• Sam Ventura, PhD Student, Dept of Statistics (CMU) home page
  Scaling Up Aggregation of Classifiers and Record Linkage Techniques - Thesis work
  Inventor Patent Disambiguation in the Optoelectronic Industry
  OE project co-supervised with Erica Fuchs, Dept of Engineering & Public Policy (CMU)
• Neha Nandakumar, undergraduate, Depts of ChemE/EPP (CMU)
  Disambiguating Optoelectronics Inventors and their Patents
  Project co-supervised with Erica Fuchs, Dept of Engineering & Public Policy (CMU)

Former Students:

• Yi Xiang Chong, BS, Mathematical Sciences, Economics-Statistics (CMU), 2012
  Incorporating Flexibility into the Normalized-Cut Image Segmentation Algorithm
  H&SS Senior Honors Thesis (2011-2012)
  Best Oral Presentation of a Honors Thesis, Statistics Competition, Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium
  Currently working for Central Bank of Malaysia
• Stephanie Kao, BS, Mathematical Sciences (CMU), 2012.
  State-Space Modeling of Inventor Mobility
  Project co-supervised with Erica Fuchs, Dept of Engineering & Public Policy (CMU)
  Currently working at Agile X in D.C.
• Christopher Peter Makris, BS, Statistics (CMU), 2011; MSP, Statistics (CMU), 2012.
  Exploration of Imputation Methods for Missingness in Image Segmentation, H&SS Senior Honors Thesis (2010-2011)
  Best Oral Presentation of a Honors Thesis, Statistics Competition, Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium
  
• Andrew Klein, BS, Information Systems, Statistics (CMU), 2011
  Semi-Automated Collection of Pitch Location and Intent in Baseball, H&SS Senior Honors Thesis (2010-2011)
  (co-advised with Andrew Thomas)
  Working at Agile X in D.C. (Summer 2011)
• Hannah Pileggi, BS, Statistics (CMU), 2011
  The Impact of Offshoring on Firm vs. Individual Technology Trajectories in Optoelectronics
  Statistical Graphics project co-supervised with Erica Fuchs, Dept of Engineering & Public Policy (CMU)
  Characterizing the Quantity and Perceived Quality of Sleep in a Health Care Student Population
  Public Health project still ongoing; joint with Texas Tech Univ Dept of Internal Medicine
  Currently a PhD student in Human Centered Computing at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.
• David Friedenberg, PhD, Dept of Statistics (CMU) 2010 (advisor: Chris Genovese)
  Exploring the Use of a Self-Tuning Diffusion Map Framework
  Currently at Battelle Memorial Institute
• Elizabeth Ayers, PhD, Dept of Statistics(CMU) 2010 (advisor: Brian Junker) CMU home page
  Developing Skill Set Profile Clustering Methods
  2008 ASA Pittsburgh Chapter Student of the Year (CMU)
  Postdoc in the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley
  Currently at the American Institutes of Research in D.C.
  
• Daniel Park, BS, Statistics & Economics 2010, Master's in Statistical Practice 2011 (CMU)
  Characterizing Performance of Medical Residency Programs
  Working at the Department of Public Finance and Social Policy, Korea Development Institute (Summer 2011)
• Xia-Yi (Sandy) Shen, MS, Dept of Elec & Comp Engineering 2009; BS, Dept of Statistics, Elec & Comp Engineering 2008
  Cluster-Based Modeling: Exploring the Linear Regression Model Space
  Currently at Citigroup Hong Kong
• Ryan Sieberg BS Mathematical Sciences, minors in Statistics & Neuroscience 2009,
  Master's in Statistical Practice 2010 (CMU)
  Using Statistical Methods to Improve Disease Classification
  Research fellowship with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (2008-2009)
  Currently in Northwestern University Medical School (Fall 2011)
• Alex(andra) Tronetti, BS, Statistics & Economics 2009 (CMU)
  Finding the "Important" Structure in a Corpus of Sleep Habit Questionnaires
  Graduated with a Master's in Biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill (2011).
• Andrew Althouse, B.S. Statistics 2008 (CMU), M.S. Applied Statistics, University of Pittsburgh;
  Modeling the Relationship Between Sleep Characteristics and Pediatric Obesity
  Currently a PhD student, University of Pittsburgh Epidemiology
• Xiaoyi Fei, B.S.Computer Science 2007 (CMU);
  Clustering with a Density-based Similarity Measure
  Currently in industry; returning to graduate school.