Big Data

Current Students

PhD students:

  • Chong Gan (Statistics, thesis title: “Association tests and stepwise variable selection in finite mixture regression models”)
  • Patrick McMillan (Bioinformatics, co-advised with Dr. Lewis Luken, thesis title: “Predictive modelling crop yields using genomic and environmental data”)
  • Alysha Copper (Statistics, co-advised with Dr. Ayesha Ali, thesis title: “Dominating hyperplane reguralization in compositional data analysis”)
  • Jin Zhang (Statistics, co-advised with Dr. Khurram Nadeem, thesis title: “Statistical modelling and prediction of wildfire occurences in Canada”)
  • Luis Miguel Roldan (Statistics, co-advised with Dr. Elif Acar, thesis title: TBD)

MSc students (Thesis):

  • Rock Ranang (Statistics, thesis title” Computer simulations for evaluating gene drive approach in wild boar population control”)
  • Sarah Lau (Statistics+AI, co-advised with Dr. Deeth, thesis title: “Assessing imputation techniques for missing water quality data in Alberta’s oil sands region”)
  • Grace Stelter (co-advised with Dr. Deeth, thesis title: “Optimizing a regularized finite gaussian mixture regression model”)

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Fekadu Bayisa (co-advised with Dr. Ali)
  • Katherine Drotos (co-advised with Dr. Mandeville)