Michael Baron's

Doctoral students

Successfully Defended

• Ryan Gill, now Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Louisville, KY
  Dissertation: Introduction to generalized broken line regression.
  Defended and graduated in Spring 2002
  
  
• Claudia Schmegner, now Associate Professor of Statistics at DePaul University, Chicago, IL
  Dissertation: Decision theoretic results for sequentially planned statistical procedures
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2003
  
  
• Sumihiro Suzuki, now Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of North Texas, School of Public Health, Fort Worth, TX
  Dissertation: Constructive methodologies of optimal sequential plans
  Defended and graduated in Fall 2006
  
  
• Jingsi Xia, now Senior Manager for Fraud Risk at Discover Financial Services, Houston, TX
  Dissertation: Optimal sequentially planned change-point detection procedures
  Defended and graduated in Fall 2006
  
  
• Xuan Chen, now Manager of the Vaccine Statistics Research Group, Sanofi Pasteur, Beijing, China
  Dissertation: Change-point analysis of survival data with application in clinical trials
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2009
  
  
• Yi Zhong, now Institute Research Investigator, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  Dissertation: Optimization of Error Spending and Power Spending in Sequentially Planned Statistical Experiments
  Defended and graduated in Fall 2010
  
  
• Xian Yu, now Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  Dissertation: Sequential Change-Point Analysis of Markov Chains with Application to Fast Detection of Epidemic Trends
  Defended and graduated in Fall 2010 (co-advisor: Dr. P. Choudhary)
  
  
• Rui Xu
  Dissertation: Sequential Analysis of Credibility and Actuarial Risks, now Statistical Analyst at Axxess Integrate, Dallas TX
  Defended and graduated in Spring 2012
  
  
• Shyamal K. De, now Assistant Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
  Dissertation: Simultaneous Testing of Multiple Hypotheses in Sequential Experiments
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2012
  
  
• Tian Zhao, now Senior Scientist at Merck & Co., Highland Park, NJ
  Dissertation: Multiple Comparisons in Truncated Group Sequential Experiments with Applications in Clinical Trials
  Defended and graduated in Spring 2015
  
  
• Tiansong Wang, now Statistician at GMG Holdings, Columbus OH
  Dissertation: Multi-Sensor Changepoint Detection
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2015
  
  
• Cesar A. J. Acosta-Mejia, now Senior lecturer at the University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  Dissertation: Pseudolikelihood Methods in Multichannel Change-Point Detection
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2016