Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

 

1.      Dr. John, A. Eccleston, ”On the theory of connected designs,” (Cornell University), 1972.

Current position: Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Email: j.eccleston at epsa.uq.edu.au.

 

2.      Dr. Kasra Afsarinejad, “Some contributions to the theory of repeated measurements designs,” (Florida State University), 1973.

Current position: Professor, Principal Scientist, Clinical Science, Biostatistics, Astrazeneca R&D Molndal, S-43183 Molndal, Sweden.

Email: kasra.afsarinejad at astrazeneca.com.

 

3.      Dr. Arlene Ash, “Construction of generalized Youden designs,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1977.

Current position: Research Professor, Boston Medical School, Boston, MA.

Email: aash at bu.edu.

 

4.      Dr. Constantine Magda, (Gregory M. Constantine) “On E-optimal block designs and Schur optimality,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1977.

Current position: Professor, Mathematics and Statistics Departments, University of Pittsburg, PA.

Email: gmc at vms.cis.pitt.edu.

 

5.      Dr. Walter M. Foody, “Properties, construction, and application of BIB designs with repeated blocks,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1979.

Last position: Vice President,Amapa, Champion Papel e Celulose Ltda, Rodovia SP 340-KM171, 13840-970 Mogi Guacu SP, Brasil. Retired

Email: wfoody at swbell.net.

 

6.      Dr. Bing-Ying Lang Lin, “On probabilities proportional to size sampling designs: Their construction, algebraic properties and application,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1981.

Current position: Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Email: bylin at math.nccu.edu.tw.

 

7.      Dr. Huey-Luen Ma (Helen) Hwang, “On (k,t) trades and the construction of BIB designs with repeated blocks,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1982.

Current position: Principle Technical Staff Member, AT&T, Middletown, NJ.

Email: hwang0203 at yahoo.com.

 

8.      Dr. John Stufken, “On optimal and highly efficient designs for comparing test treatments with a control,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1986.

Current position: Professor and Head, Statistics Department, University of Georgia, Athen, GA.

Email: Jstufken at stat.uga.edu.

 

9.      Dr. Wenxun (William) Zhao, “On optimal repeated measurements designs,” (Universityof Illinois at Chicago), 1989.

Current position: Senior Director, Research Data Science, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., Deerfield,IL.

Email: william.zhao at us.astellas.com.

 

10.  Dr. Kewei Pu, “Contributions to fractional factional designs,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1989.

Current position: Associate Director, Biostatistics, Worldwide Clinical Trials, Inc., Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Email: kpu at akrospharma.com.

 

11.  Dr. Hegang Chen, “Contributions to experimental designs,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1993.

Current position: Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

Email: hchen at epi.umaryland.edu.

 

12.  Dr. Weiguang Zhang, “Nearly and virtually balanced incomplete block designs,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1994.

Last position: Senior Software Engineer, SPSS, Inc. Chicago, IL. (Wei passed away on June 1st, 1998).

 

13.  Dr. Bo Yan, “Modeling and identifying optimum designs for fitting dose-response curves and estimating EDp based on raw optical density data,”(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1995.

Current position: Associate Director, Clinical Statistics, Abbott Laboratory 100 Abbott Park, IL.

Email: bo.yan at abbott.com.

 

14.  Dr. Guoqin Su, “On the existence and construction of difference schemes and orthogonal arrays,”(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1996.

Current position: Associate Director of Biostatistics, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, 59 Route 10, East Hanover, NJ 07936-1080.

Email: guoqin.su at novartis.com.

 

15.  Dr. Hairong Crigler, “Distribution-free confidence intervals for finite population quantile intervals in two-stage cluster sampling and an application in waste management,”(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1996.

Current position: Director, Experian Decision Sciences,4 Gatehall Drive Parsip-

pany, NJ 07054.

Email: Hairong.Crigler at experian.com.

 

16.  Dr. Juhui Jiao, “Hypothesis testing in incomplete risks theory,”(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1997.

Current position: Senior Statistician, Roche Lab, Nutley, NJ.

Email: james.jiao at roche.com.

 

17.  Dr. Weining Zhao Robieson, “On weighted kappa and concordance correlation coefficient,” (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1999.

Current position: Manager, Statistics, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL.

Email: weining.z.robieson at abbott.com.

 

18.  Dr. Jinglin Zhong, “Optimal and efficient nonlinear designs and solutions with interpretations to individual bioequivalence”, 2000.

Current position: Mathematical Statistician, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD

Email: jinglin.zhong at fda.hhs.gov.

 

19.  Dr. Min Yang, “Universal Optimality in Crossover Designs and Statistical Methods in Assessing Agreement”, 2002.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203

Email: yangmi at missouri.edu.

 

20.  Dr. Haiyuan Zhu, “Optimal augmented designs and fractional factorial designs”, 2002.

Current position: Biometrician, Merck Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 2000, Rahway, NJ 07065-0900

Email: haiyuan zhu at merck.com.

 

21.  Dr. Xu Yan, “Optimal designs in stability studies”, 2004.

Current Position: Mathematical Statistician, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1350 Piccard Drive, HFZ-542, Rockville, MD 20850

Email: xu.yan at fda.hhs.gov.

 

22.  Dr. Yunfan Deng, “Designs for crossover trials with binary outcomes”, 2005.

Current Position: Mathematical Statistician, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD

Email: Yunfan.Deng at fda.hhs.gov.

 

23.  Dr. Wenting Wu, “A Unified Approach for Assessing Agreement”, 2006.

Current Position: Lead Statistician, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55902

Email: wu.wenting at mayo.edu.

 

24.  Dr. Xin Fang, “D-optimal Designs for Pharmacokinetic and Combined Pharmacokinetic Pharmacodynamic Models”, 2006.

Current Position: Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903

Email: Xin.Fang at fda.hhs.gov.

 

25.  Dr. Daniel Tancredi, “Design Insights for Epidemiological Studies of Prevalent

and Incident Dementia”, 2006

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care - University of California at Davis

Email: djtancredi at ucdavis.edu.

 

26.  Dr. Congrong (Helen) Lou, “Assessment of Agreement”, 2006.

Current Position: Senior Manager, Marketing Information R and D, ACNielsen, Schaumburg, IL.

Email: helen.lou at acnielsen.com.

 

27.  Dr. Zhiwu Yan, “Crossover Designs for a Self and Simple Mixed Carryover Effects Model with Correlated Errors”, 2006

Current Position: Research Statistician, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park 100, Abbott Park, IL

Email: zhiwu.yan at abbott.com

 

28.  Dr. Li Wei, “ Stochastic Curtailment Method Under Linear Models”, 2007

Current Position: Senior Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell, NJ

Email: li.wei1 at bms.com

 

29.  Dr. Yuping Dong, “Surveillance Studies on Change Point in Incidence Rate”, 2007

Current Position: Senior Research Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb, 311 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road, Pennington, NJ, 08534

Email: yuping.dong at bms.com

 

30.  Dr. Weiya Zhang, “Designs for a Toxicity-Efficacy Model and Inference on a Normal Mean with Known Coefficient of Variation”, 2007

Current Position: Senior Statistician, Sanofi-Aventis, 10 Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, PA

Email: weiya.zhang at sanofi-aventis.com