Ph.D.s in INSTORE

Ph.D. Awardees and Advisors

2020

• Weiwei Li, “Data Science Methods with Applications to Genetic Sequencing.”
  • Advisor: Jan Hannig
  • Placement: Facebook

2019

• Lu Wang, “Stochastic Models for Service and Taxi Systems.”
  • Advisor: Vidyadhar Kulkarni
  • Placement: Wells Fargo
• Liuqing Yang, “Statistical Methods for Deconvolution in Cancer Genomics.”
  • Advisor: J.S. Marron
  • Placement: Abbvie
• Yang Yu, “Analyzing Sampling in Stochastic Optimization: Importance Sampling and Statistical Inference.”
  • Advisor: Amarjit Budhiraja and Shu Lu
  • Placement: Google

• Haipeng Gao, “Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Cusp Catastrophe Model.”
  • Advisor: Chuanshu Ji
  • Placement: Paypal

2018

• Wanyi Chen, “A Data-Driven Approach for Operational Improvement in Emergency Departments.”
  • Advisors: Nilay Argon and Serhan Ziya
  • Placement: Post-doc, Harvard Medical School
• Yufeng Liu, “Advanced Statistical Learning Techniques for High-Dimensional Imaging Data.”
  • Advisors: Yufeng Liu and Hongtu Zhu
  • Placement: Uber

2017

• Yunxiao Liu, “Essays in High-Frequency Financial Econometrics.”
  • Advisor: Chuanshu Ji and George Tauchen (Duke University)
  • Placement: Uber Technologies
• Siyun Yu, “Optimal Resource Utilization in Service Systems.”
  • Advisor: Vidyadhar Kulkarni
  • Placement: Cox Automotive

2015

• Gen Li, “Integrated Analysis of Multiple Data Sets with Biomedical Applications.”
  • Advisors:  Andrew Nobel and Haipeng Shen
  • Placement:  Columbia University

2014

• Han Ye, “Data-driven workforce management in call centers.”
  • Advisor:  Haipeng Shen
  • Placement: University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign