Research

Research Interests:

Spatial Statistics, Survival Analysis, and Applied Probability

Education:

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Statistics): University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA. August 1998

Dissertation: Information and Asymptotic Efficiency of Case-cohort Sampling Design in Cox's Regression Model

Adviser: Larry Goldstein

Major Research Grants:

  • National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Axially symmetric processes and intrinsic random functions on the sphere, DMS# 1208847, PI, $64,718, 9/15/2012 - 8/31/2015. (Transferred to UNCG: DMS# 1412343, PI, $47,468, 12/2/2013 - 8/31/2016)

  • National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, DMS# 0852032, Senior Personnel (PI: Hyeona Lim), $200,000 (with $54,646 of matching funds from MSU), 9/15/2009 - 8/31/2012.

(Here are the links for our summer REU in MSU: https://www.math.msstate.edu/events/reu/reu2011/ and https://www.math.msstate.edu/events/reu/reu2010/ )

Students Supervised:

Ph. D. Students:

  1. Chris Vanlengenberg (UNCG): December 2016 - Beacon Data Inc., Darien, CT

  2. Wenshuang (Wendy) Wang (Mississippi State University): August 2017 - Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, TX

  3. Wei (Vivian) Chen (UNCG): May 2018 - Department of Information Systems and Analytics, Miami University, OH

  4. Romesh Arachchige (UNCG): May 2021 - Department of Computational Mathematics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  5. Sarangan Balasubramaniam (UNCG): Expected August 2022 - Department of Statistics, University of Georgia - Athens


Masters Students:

  1. Sean Bell (UNCG): May 2022

  2. Casey Balser (UNCG): May 2021

  3. Shiyong Tian (UNCG): May 2021

  4. Helen Guo (UNCG): May 2019

  5. Nada Alzahrani (UNCG): May 2019

  6. Bukola Adaramola (UNCG): August 2017

  7. Ashwag Alghamdi (UNCG): May 2017

  8. Masters students from Mississippi State University: Yuan Yuan (Summer 2009), Zhifa Liu (Spring 2010), Daniel Krywaruczenko (Summer 2010), Zhiru Gu (Spring 2010), Chad Blackshear (Spring 2011), Chris Vanlangenberg (Spring 2012), Seth Lirette (Spring 2012), Yang Xu (Spring 2012), Wei Chen (Summer 2013).


Undergraduate Students:

  1. Peter Kim (UNCG): Summer/Fall 2017

  2. Hunter Merrill (Mississippi State University): 2011 - 2012

  3. Justin Hansen (University of Vermont): Summer 2010

  4. Nils Nelson (Utah State University): Summer 2011

  5. John Gregoire and Sam MacDonald (Concordia College): 2001 - 2002