Current and Former Students

• Katherine Kreuser, PhD, December 2025, “Uncertainty Quantification in Extreme Value Modeling, Online Optimization, and Bias Correction”. Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Jiyun (Joyce) Huang (joint with Brook Russell), PhD, December 2025, “Contributions to Statistical Modeling and Estimation of Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves”. Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Florida

• Fnu Kamronnaher PhD, December 2023, “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 PhD, August 2023, “A Framework for Statistical Modeling of Wind Speed and Wind Direction”. Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistical Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

• Peiying Li MS, May 2024, “Estimating Financial Value-at-Risk via GARCH and LSTM Models”. Current Position: Banking industry, China

• Adam Diaz MS, May 2022, “A Contribution to the Statistical Analysis of Climate–Wildfire Interaction in Northern California” [Link]. Current Position: Principal Research Statistician, Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, CA

• Emily Tidwell MS, May 2021, “A Combined Physical–Statistical Approach for Estimating r-Year Storm Surge Depth”. Current Position: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL

• Andrew Bellucco MS, December 2019, co-advised with Colin Gallagher, “Estimating Financial Risk”. Current Position: Senior Partnerships Lead, Yendo, Charlotte, NC