Ph.D. Advisees
Jake Yizhou Cai
Fall 2022 - current (expected Spring 2026)
Dissertation title: Maximum Ideal Likelihood Estimation: A Unified Estimation and Inference Framework for Latent Variable Models
Fanghua Chen (co-advising with Dr. Ray Bai)
Fall 2024 - current
Dissertation title: Deep Learning Theory and Methods for Dependent and Complex Data
Sehun An (co-advising with Dr. Shanghong Xie)
Spring 2025 - current
Dissertation title: TBD
Lu Zhou (co-advising with Dr. Xianzheng Huang)
Fall 2025 - current
Dissertation title: TBD
Undergraduate Senior Theses
Thesis director:
Andrew Gosnell (Spring 2024), Accounting, minor in Statistics
Thesis title: Do NFL Combine Results Predict Future NFL Success
Second reader:
Isabelle Whitehead (Spring 2026), Mathematics & Political Science
Thesis title: A Not So Heated “Rivalry”: Arctic Sea Ice Decline, Security Behavior, and the Baseline Before China
Cade Stanley (Spring 2023), Mathematics & Statistics
Thesis title: Modeling the Probability of a Successful Stolen Base Attempt in Major League Baseball
Major K-12 and Undergraduate Collaborators
Christian Richard (B.S.B.A. Finance and Supply Chain): Spring 25 - current, 2025 Capstone Scholar (award fund $1,500)
Anthony H. Zou (River Bluff High School, Columbia, SC): Spring 2025 - current