Xuming He (Co-advised with Stephen Portnoy). Ph.D. 1989. Thesis: Contributions to the theory of statistical breakdown. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
Sha-lin Guo. Ph.D. 1990. Thesis: Inferences on high-dimensional data. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Associate Professor, Chung-Yuan University, Chung-Li, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan R.O.C.
Huann-Sheng Chen. Ph.D. 1996. Thesis: Estimation in random field models for noisy spatial data. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Mathematical Statistician and Program Director, Statistical Methodology and Applications Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Nanxiang (Sean) Ge. Ph.D. 1996. Thesis: Contributions to classification and calibration of high-dimensional data. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Head of Biometrics and Data Management at Roivant Sciences. New York.
Min-ge Xie. Ph.D. 1996. Thesis: Regression modeling: latent structures, theory, and algorithms. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University.
Limin Fu. Ph.D. 1999. Thesis: Unified ordinal regression: model assessment and semi-parametric analysis. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. SVP, Global Risk Analytics at Bank of America.
Hanga Galfalvy. Ph.D. 2000. Thesis: Censored regression models with applications to infrastructure degradation studies. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Yan Yang, PhD 2006. Thesis: Marginal mixture analysis of correlated bounded-response data. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Senior Vice President, Quantitative Modeling, Bank of America, Phoenix, AZ.
Heng Liu, Ph.D. 2007. Thesis: Bicriterion clustering and selecting the optimal number of clusters via agreement measure. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Data Scientist, Apple AI/ML, Sunnyvale, CA.
Alan Huebner, Ph.D. 2008. Thesis: Modeling correlated ordinal data: marginal and conditional approaches. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Teaching Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame.
Zhi He, Ph.D. 2010. Thesis: Semiparametric inference. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA.
Gang Chen, Ph.D. 2012. Thesis: Image classification and feature selection. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Staff Software Engineer, The Walt Disney Company.
Lu Gan, (Co-advised with Stephen Portnoy). Ph.D. 2014. Thesis: Variable screening and model selection in censored quantile regression via sparse penalties and stepwise refinement. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Data Scientist, JDA Software Group, Inc. Irving, TX.
Yeonjoo Park, Ph.D. 2017. Thesis: Effect Size Estimation and Robust Classification for Irregularly Sampled Functional Data. Department of Statistics, University of Illinois. Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science and Statistics, University of Texas at San Antonio.