Current and Former Students
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
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
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
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
MS, May 2024
Thesis: “Estimating Financial Value-at-Risk via GARCH and LSTM Models” Current Position: Banking industry, China
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
MS, May 2021
Thesis: “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
Thesis: “Estimating Financial Risk” Current Position: Strategic Partnerships Lead, Column, San Francisco, CA |