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Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member

Author:

Subramanian, Anita

Title:

THE EFFECT OF PRENATAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON MATERNAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND PLACENTAL ANGIOGENESIS IN BANGLADESH

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Pregnancy
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Placental Growth Factor
Angiogenic Factors
Vitamin D
Placental Villi
Systolic Blood Pressure
Diastolic Blood Pressure

File:

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Committee Members:

Alison Diane Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison Diane Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiang Gao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francisco Javier Diaz, Outside Member
Daniel E. Roth, Special Member
Laura E Murray-Kolb, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brashear, Awtum

Title:

Next Generation Sequencing In the Understanding of Neglected Malaria Parasites

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Malaria
Genomics
Transcriptomics
RNA Sequencing
Southeast Asia
China
Myanmar
Thailand
Border
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Antigenic Variation
Drug Resistance
Anti-Malarial Resistance

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
Maciej F Boni, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Liwang Cui, Special Member
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Chixiang

Title:

Statistical Models for Recovering Dynamic Gene Networks from Static Data

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

The Genotype-Tissue Expression
Disease progression
Network learning
Ordinary differential equations
Quasi-dynamic network

File:

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Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Joanna Floros, Outside Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Ming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moysidis, Ilias

Title:

Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models From Heterogeneous Subpopulations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Graphical Models
Joint estimation
heterogeneous subpopulations
neighborhood selection
variable selection
nonsmooth optimization
functional graphical models

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Bingyuan

Title:

Topics on Nonconvex Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonconvex optimization
machine learning
statistical learning
deep learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wu, Min Chun

Title:

Convex Sensing: Topological Approaches to Nonlinear Dimension Inference

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves
convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Case, Major Field Member
Carina Curto, Major Field Member
Vladimir Itskov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carina Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seng, Bibiana

Title:

Rerandomization in Fractional Factorial Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

Design of Experiments
Rerandomization
Applied Statistics
Factorial Experiments

File:

Download BES_Masters_Thesis_Update.pdf

Committee Members:

Kari Lock Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Srinivasan, Arun

Title:

Topics on High-Dimensional Statistical Methods for Compositional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

compositional data analysis
robust statistics
human microbiome
high-dimensional statistics
covariance estimation
knockoff filter
variable selection
tyler's m-estimator
huber's m-estimator

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Zhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Dou, Nan

Title:

FOOD INSECURITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

food insecurity
Hispanic minorities
depression
stress
social support
longitudinal study
Food insecurity
Mental health
Heart rate variability
Vulnerable populations

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Committee Members:

Laura Murray-Kolb, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Major Field Member
Muzi Na, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Sheng, Ben

Title:

The Integration of Multiple Data Sources for HIV/AIDS Incidence and Prevalence Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
routine HIV testing among pregnant women
Antenatal clinic
Unlinked anonymous HIV testing
Routine HIV testing
Calibration parameter
Linear mixed-effects model
weakly supervised learning
semi-supervised learning
logistic regression
contingency table
HIV recency
HIV incidence

File:

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Committee Members:

Le Bao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Xun Cao, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Simsek, Caner

Title:

And I Took That Personally: Explaining The Differing Routes to Personalist Dictatorships

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

authoritarian regimes
personalist regimes
security personalization
purges

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Vineeta Yadav, Major Field Member
Joseph Wright, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Desmarais, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Liu, Shuo Shuo

Title:

Statistical Learning on High-Dimensional Multi-Source Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Learning
Multi-View Clustering
High-Dimensional Data
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Lan Kong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Zhe

Title:

Inference Methods for High-Dimensional Data: A Focus On Different Hypothesis Testing Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

statistical inference
high dimension
marginal coordinate hypothesis
sufficient dimension reduction
partial linear model
power enhancement
linear hypothesis

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Qi

Title:

Dimension Reduction and Graphical Models using Optimal Transport

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sufficient dimension reduction;
Metric space-valued data;
Graphical model;
Optimal transport;

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ting He, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Tong, Zhaoxue

Title:

Robust Techniques for High-dimensional Data: Modern Approaches and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

feature screening
false discovery rate control
robust regression
and precision matrix estimation
feature screening
false discovery rate control
robust regression
precision matrix estimation
heavy-tailed data
model-free
strong oracle property
winsorization

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Mengyan

Title:

Statistical Inference with Corrupted Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Measurement error model
Efficient score method
Semiparametric regression
High dimensional inference
Nonignorable missing data
Statistical inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanyuan Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liao, Yujie

Title:

Varying Coefficient Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Mediation analysis
Varying coefficient model
Indirect effect
Generalized linear model

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Kamens, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wen, Jiawei

Title:

Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-dimensional Sparse Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature partition
Alternating direction method of multipliers
High dimensional data

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Helen Marie Kamens, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinru

Title:

Large-scale Discrete Optimization via Simulation Using Gaussian Markov Random Field

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Gaussian Markov random field
discrete optimization via simulation
linear algebraic
high-dimensional
parallelization

File:

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Committee Members:

Eunhye Song, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Major Field Member
Russell Barton, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Andreas Waechter, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member

Author:

Cui, Shijie

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

statistics
statistical inference
high dimension
partially linear single index
matrix
rank
double robust
measurement error
misspecified
sparse SVD

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Laga, Ian

Title:

Everyone Counts: Advanced Methods for Estimating Marginalized Populations

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

HIV
Key Population
Bayesian Modeling
Small Area Estimation
Prevalence Mapping
Size Estimation
Aggregated Relational Data

File:

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Committee Members:

Ashton Verdery, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Le Bao, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyungsuk Tak, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tao, Jun

Title:

New advances in structure learning of graphical models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

graphical model
statistical learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

ESSAYS IN SEMIPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Identification
Estimation
Semiparametric
Treatment Effects
Misreporting
Substitution Patterns

File:

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Committee Members:

Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Co-Chair of Committee
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhao, Ye Alex

Title:

Tests of Hypotheses on Regression Coefficients in High-Dimensional Regression Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

high-dimensional inference
regression coefficient testing
hypothesis testing

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Le Bao, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member

Author:

Song, Wenjing

Title:

Statistical learning of dynamic transportation models

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Kriging
Dynamic traffic assignment
Dynamic network loading
Dynamic user equilibrium
Big data

File:

Download Dissertation_final-Wenjing_Song.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Terry Lee Friesz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Vikash V. Gayah, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Vinayak Uday Shanbhag, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hang

Title:

On Active Learning Methods for Manifold Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Active Learning
Manifold Learning
Design of Experiment
High-Dimensional Data Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Qiushi Chen, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Topics on power enhancement in high-dimensional hypothesis tests

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

power enhancement
high-dimensional tests
multi-factor pricing models
two-sample covariance tests
simultaneous tests

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cai, Zhanrui

Title:

New Statistical Tools for Independence and Conditional Independence

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Online leaerning
dimension reduction
test of independence
test of conditional independence
causal discovery

File:

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Committee Members:

Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Jia

Title:

Topics on Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Bayesian variable selection
High-dimensional data
Network analysis
Partially linear model
Time-varying network model

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zeng, Mudong

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Mediation Analysis
Penalized Least Squares
Sparsity

File:

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Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair