Mentoring Graduate Students/ Undergraduate Students/ Honors Student
PhD Students (All at UNC Greensboro)
I served on the Ph.D. Dissertation Committees of four students at UNC Greensboro, USA.
Michael Parker - graduated in Summer 2025. I co-authored four journal articles with him.
Wenhao Shou - graduated in Summer 2024. I co-authored two journal articles with her.
Pujita Sapra - graduated in Summer 2023. I co-authored five journal articles with her
Badr Aloraini - graduated in June 2021. I co-authored four journal articles with him. One of these papers received the 2nd best paper award at the National Competition of Young Statisticians Research 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. She was awarded with 2nd best presentation award in a Poster Competition.
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. Her research article is under review.
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. Her research article is accepted and in press for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
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. Her research article is published in Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
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
Served as mentor or co-mentor for several students under a NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at UNC Greensboro
Lead Mentor for three students in Summer 2024 (Caroline Wyrick, Yessica Arzate & Kendal Walker, all from 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 students- Max Lovig of University of Louisiana Lafayette in 2020, Joia Zhang of University of Washington, Seattle in 2021, and William McCance of UC Santa Barbara in 2022
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” LCWU Lahore.
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