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Postdoctoral Fellows and Visitors
- Pankaj Bhagwat (Statistics), 2023-2026.
- Vahid Tadayon (Statistics), 2023-2026.
- Yi Liu (Statistics), 2023-2024.
- Yixin Han (Statistics), 2023-2026.
- Jinhan Xie (Statistics), 2021-2024.
- Junxi Zhang (Statistics), 2023-2026.
PhD Students
- Wentao Qu (Statistics, Visiting from Beijing Jiaotong University), 2023-2024.
- Yi Liang (Statistics), 2023-2027.
- Bo Pan (Statistics, Joint With Professor Bei Jiang), 2023-2027.
- Hongni Wang (Statistics, Visiting from Shandong University of Finance and Economics), 2023-2025.
- Qirui Hu (Statistics, Visiting from Tsinghua University), 2022-2023.
- Enze Shi (Statistical Machine Learning), 2022-2026.
- Zhixian Yang (Statistics, Joint With Professor Bei Jiang), 2022-2026.
- Haihan Xie (Statistics), 2021-2025, Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES).
- Ce Zhang (Statistics), 2020-2024, Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, Eoin L Whitney Scholarship.
- Ke Sun (Statistical Machine Learning), 2020-2024, China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Scholarship, Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES).
- Matthew Pietrosanu (Statistics, Joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2019-2023, MSc NSERC Scholarship, Dick Peter Graduate Scholarship, Josephine Mitchell Graduate Scholarship, Science Graduate Scholarship and Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship.
- Lisa Shulman (Statistics, Joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2019-2023, Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship and MSc NSERC Scholarship.
- Meichen Liu (Statistics, joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2018-2023, China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Scholarship.
- Na Zhang (Statistics), 2018-2023, China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Scholarship.
- Lei Ding (Statistical Machine Learning, Joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2018-2023, Dr Paul Somerville Graduate Scholarship, Josephine Mitchell Scholarship.
MSc Students
- Connor Mitchell (Statistics, Joint With Professor Bei Jiang) 2023-2025.
- Jordan Slessor (Statistics) 2022-2024.
- Qichun Chen (Statistics), 2020-2022.
Former Group Members
Postdoctoral Fellows:
- Wenxing Guo (Statistics), 2020-2022; Current Position: Lecturer at the University of Essex.
- Xiaodong Yan (Statistics), 2020-2022; Current Position: Associate Professor at Shandong University.
- Yafei Wang (Statistics), 2019-2022; Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta.
- Kaiqiong Zhao (Statistics), 2021-2022; Current Position: Assistant Professor at York University.
- Selvakkadunko Selvaratnam (Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Professor Doug Wiens), 2018-2019, Current Position: Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
- Sile Tao (Postdoctoral Fellow), 2018-2019, Current Position: Manager at Scotiabank.
- Peng Liu (Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2017-2019, Current Position: Lecturer at the University of Kent.
- Xingcai Zhou (Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Professor Rohana Karunamuni), 2013-2014, Current Position: Professor at Nanjing Audit University.
Ph.D Students:
- Yi Liu (Statistical Machine Learning), 2017-2023, Dr. Paul Somerville Graduate Scholarship, Josephine Mitchell Graduate Scholarship.
- Mei Li (Statistics, CSC visiting Ph.D., Beijing Jiaotong University), 2021-2022.
- Yuzi Liu (Statistics, CSC visiting Ph.D., Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics), 2021-2022.
- Yingnan Zhao (Statistical Machine Learning, CSC visiting PhD, Harbin Institute of Technology), 2021-2022.
- Dan Lu (Statistical Machine Learning, CSC visiting PhD, Harbin Engineering University), 2021-2022.
- Wei Tu (Statistics, joint with Professor Rohana Karunamuni), 2015-2019, PhD Entrance Scholarship, Eoin L Whitney Scholarship, Dr Paul Somerville Graduate Scholarship, and Josephine Mitchell Graduate Scholarship. Current Position: Assistant Professor at Queen's University.
- Tong Su (Statistics, Visiting), 2019-2020. , Current position: PhD student at Yunnan University.
- Bang Liu (Electrical and Computer Engineering, joint with Professor Di Niu), 2016-2020, PhD Entrance Scholarship, J Gordin Kaplan award, and Alberta Innovates Scholarship. Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal.
- Yafei Wang (Statistics, visiting, joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2017-2018. Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta.
- Dengdeng Yu (Statistics, joint with Professor Ivan Mizera), 2013-2017, FGSR Travel Award, Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
MSc Students:
- Yakun Yang (Statistics) 2021-2023.
- Bo Pan (Biostatistics) 2020-2022.
- Mehrnoosh Bazrafkan (Statistical Machine Learning) 2020-2022.
- Enze Shi (Statistics, Joint with Professor Lingzhu Li) 2020-2022.
- Zhixian Yang (Statistics) 2020-2022.
- Zijun Zhou (Statistics), 2020-2022.
- Xueying Zhang (Statistical Machine Learning, Joint with Professor Yaozhong Hu), 2019-2021.
- Haihan Xie (Statistics), 2019-2021, MSc Entrance Scholarship.
- Yiwei Huang (Statistics), 2019-2021, University Master Scholarship.
- Boya Peng (Biostatistics), 2019-2021.
- Xilai Fu (Statistics, Joint of Professor Yan Yuan), 2018-2020.
- Matthew Pietrosanu (Statistics, Joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2017-2019, MSc NSERC Scholarship, First job: PhD student at the University of Alberta.
- Lisa Shulman (Statistics, Joint with Professor Bei Jiang), 2017-2019, MSc NSERC Scholarship, First job: PhD student at the University of Alberta.
- Jiaxin Zhang (Statistical Machine Learning, Joint with Professor Adam Kashlak), 2017-2019, MSc Entrance Scholarship.
- Fangfang Fu (Statistics), 2016-2018, PhD Entrance Scholarship, First job: Research Assistant at the University of Alberta.
- Dong Yang (Statistics), 2016-2018, First job: Manager at AID Cloud Technology.
- Xi Hu (Statistics), 2016-2018, First job: Data Scientist at Servus Credit Union.
- Xinyuan He (Biostatistics), 2016-2018, First job: Data Analyst at Blue Cross.
- Bingzun Wang (Statistics), 2016-2018, First job: Research Assistant at the University of Alberta.
- Borislav Mavrin (Statistical Machine Learning, joint with Professor Di Niu), 2015-2017, PhD Entrance Scholarship and Eoin L Whitney Scholarship. First job: Data Scientist at Janalta Interactive Inc.
- Wantong Yin (Statistics), 2015-2017, University Master Scholarship, First job: Research Assistant at IBM China.
- Wenbo Li (Statistics), 2015-2016, First job: AHS Data Analyst.
- Menglu Che (Statistics, joint with Professor Yan Yuan), 2014-2016, Josephine M. Mitchell Scholarship, First job: PhD student at the University of Waterloo.
- Lili Zheng (Statistics), 2014-2015, First Job: Sessional Lecturer at MacEwan University.
- Maryam Gholami (Statistics), 2014-2015. First Job: Data Scientist at Statflo;.
- Jueyu Gao (Statistical Machine Learning, joint with Professor Edit Gombay), 2013-2015, First job: Research Assistant at the University of Alberta.
- Haoxu Shu (Biostatistics), 2013-2015.
- Shimei Yu (Biostatistics), 2013-2015, First job: Research Assistant at the University of Calgary.
- Qian Shi (Statistics), 2012-2014, Profiling Alberta's Graduate Student Award, GSA Professional Development Award, SSC Student Travel Awards, Josephine M. Mitchell GS4 Scholarship, First job: Data Analyst at the University of Alberta.