Students Mentoring

Mentoring Graduate Students/ Undergraduate Students/ Honors Student 

PhD Students (All at UNC Greensboro)

• Currently serving on the PhD Dissertation Committees of two students (Michael Parker and Wenhao Shou) at UNC Greensboro.

• Served on the PhD Dissertation Committee of Pujita Sapra at UNC Greensboro. Pujita graduated in Summer 2023. I co-authored three journal articles with her.

• Served on the PhD Dissertation Committee of Badr Aloraini who graduated in June 2021. I co-authored 4 journal articles with Badr. One of these papers received the 2nd best paper award by a young researcher in Saudi Arabia in 2021

MS Students (All at LCWU, Pakistan)

• Nimra Kareem (2020-22): Thesis on “Improved efficiency through mixture quantitative randomized response models” LCWU, Lahore.

• Omaima Afzal (2020-22): Thesis on “Efficiency and privacy protection using randomized response models in mean estimation under two-phase sampling for partial and no-information cases” LCWU, Lahore.

• Fakhar-ul-Nisa (2019-2021): Thesis on “Impact of measurement errors & non-response on mean estimation of sensitive variable using non sensitive auxiliary variables in two-phase sampling”. LCWU, Lahore.

• Aimen Aslam (2019-2021): Thesis on “Generalized estimators of population mean under the joint influence of measurement error and non-response using auxiliary variables in simple and stratified two-phase sampling” LCWU, Lahore. (She took Extension)

• Usra Shuja (2018-2020): Thesis on “Estimation of population mean of sensitive study variable based on randomized response technique using auxiliary information in the presence of measurement errors under two-phase sampling” LCWU, Lahore.

• Zoia Abid (2017-2019): Thesis on “Generalized mean estimators using single and two auxiliary variables in the presence of measurement errors under two-phase sampling” LCWU, Lahore.

Undergraduate Students at UNC Greensboro

• Lead Mentor for two students in Summer 2023 (Jamie Lin of UNC Wilmington and Francisco Carrillo-Villagrana of UNC Asheville).  Also served as Co-Mentor for two students in Summer 2023 (Bailey Meche of University of Louisiana Lafayette and Venu Poruri of UC Berkley)

• Served as Co-Mentor for three other REU students at UNC Greensboro - Max Lovig of University of Louisiana Lafayette in 2020 (currently PhD student at Yale), Joia Zhang of University of Washington, Seattle in 2021 (currently PhD student at Cornell), and William McCance of UC Santa Barbara in 2022 (currently PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill)

Undergraduate Students at LCWU

• Amber Qasim (2018-22): Internship Report: A comparative study on wheat production in Lahore, Faisalabad, D.G. khan and Rajanpur districts.

• Aqsa Zia (2018-22): Internship Report: Study on customer’s satisfaction towards policies of state life insurance company.

• Kinza (2018-22): Internship Report: Forecasting of Cigarettes production in Pakistan through time series models.

• Hadia Ijaz (2018-22): “Internship Report: Study on factors affecting women while working in bank.

• Kashaf (2021):Project on “Geometric Mean Ratio Estimator in Systematic Sampling”.    

• Zunaira Azam (2020): “Internship Report on Pakistan Meteorological Department Lahore” LCWU, Lahore.

• Kainat Batool (2018): Thesis on “Generalized Mean Estimator using Two Auxiliary Variables”. LCWU, Lahore.

• Zoia Abid (2016): Thesis on “A Univariate Time Series Modeling of Citrus Fruits Production in Punjab”. LCWU, Lahore.

• Supervised many other students on their internship reports at LCWU.