2015 | UBC Department of Statistics

Yifan Zhang

Supervisor Natalia Nolde

Thesis Title

Conditional Extremes in Asymmetric Financial Markets

First Position

PhD student in Finance, INSEAD, Fontainebleau

Supervisor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté

Thesis Title

DrSMC:A Sequential Monte Carlo Sampler for Deterministic Relationships on Continuous Random Variables

First Position

PhD student, Statistics and Machine Learning PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University

Supervisor Matías Salibián-Barrera

Thesis Title

A Markov Random Fields Approach to Modelling Habitat

Supervisor Lang Wu

Supervisor Matías Salibián-Barrera

Supervisor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté

Thesis Title

Divide and Conquer Sequential Monte Carlo for Phylogenetics

First Position

PhD student, University of Washington, Department of Statistics

Supervisor Gabriela V. Cohen Freue

Thesis Title

Instrumental Variables Selection: A Comparison between Regularization and Post-Regularization Methods

First Position

Statistician- Medical Research Council, Lifecourse, Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK

Supervisor William J. Welch

Thesis Title

Air Quality Model Evaluation Through the Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Ozone Features

First Position

Scotiabank, Manager, Risk Model Validation and Vetting Team

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