Current and Former Students

Katherine Kreuser

Katherine Kreuser

PhD, December 2025

Dissertation: “Uncertainty Quantification in Extreme Value Modeling, Online Optimization, and Bias Correction”

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jiyun Joyce Huang

Jiyun (Joyce) Huang

PhD, December 2025 · Co-advised with Brook Russell

Dissertation: “Contributions to Statistical Modeling and Estimation of Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves”

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Florida

Fnu Kamronnaher

Fnu Kamronnaher

PhD, December 2023 · Co-advised with Colin Gallagher

Dissertation: “Estimating Financial and Environmental Risk: Some New Developments and a Comparative Study”

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Eva Murphy

Eva Murphy

PhD, August 2023

Dissertation: “A Framework for Statistical Modeling of Wind Speed and Wind Direction”

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX

Peiying Li

Peiying Li

MS, May 2024

Thesis: “Estimating Financial Value-at-Risk via GARCH and LSTM Models”

Current Position: Banking industry, China

Adam Diaz

Adam Diaz

MS, May 2022

Thesis: “A Contribution to the Statistical Analysis of Climate–Wildfire Interaction in Northern California” [Thesis]

Current Position: Principal Research Statistician, Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, CA

Emily Tidwell

Emily Tidwell

MS, May 2021

Thesis: “A Combined Physical–Statistical Approach for Estimating r-Year Storm Surge Depth”

Current Position: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL

Andrew Bellucco

Andrew Bellucco

MS, December 2019 · Co-advised with Colin Gallagher

Thesis: “Estimating Financial Risk”

Current Position: Strategic Partnerships Lead, Column, San Francisco, CA