Congratulations to our Rice Statistics graduates

The department would like to acknowledge and congratulate our newest alumni.

Graduate

The Department of Statistics at Rice University would like to acknowledge and congratulate the 2020-21 graduates from our academic programs.

PhD Program Graduates

  • Siya Chen, “Statistical Modeling for Species Count Data with Heterogeneity”
  • Rongjie Liu, “Advanced Statistical Learning Methods in Image Processing”
  • Michael Weylandt, “Computational and Statistical Methodology for Highly Structured Data”
  • Minjie Wang, “Statistical Machine Learning Approaches for Data Integration and Graphical Models”

Master’s Program Graduates

  • Qian Chen
  • Genyi Huang
  • Jong ok La
  • Mengting Lei
  • Jie Min
  • Grace Nie
  • Hao Qiu
  • Rebecca Louise Schneider
  • Yutong Su
  • Ye Tian
  • Jessica Li Wang
  • Lihan Wu
  • Manling Xi
  • Ziru Xue
  • Bojie Zhang
  • Yifan Zhang
  • Yuchong Zhang
  • Ningning Zhu
  • Yue Zhou

BA and BS Graduates

  • Charles Vinson Abbott, “Post-Operative Arrhythmia Detection in Pediatric Cardiac Patients”
  • Vladimir Ivanovich Belik, “Emerging Topics in Health and Environmental Science via Natural Language Processing”
  • Charles William Benninger, “Defense Wins Championships: Predicting Team Performance From Individual Statistics in Basketball"
  • Joseph Lloyd Duffey, “COVID-19 Impact Analysis on EMS Services”
  • George Thomas Elsesser, “Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting of Federal Student Loan Debt"
  • Noah Miller Franklin, “Defense Wins Championships: Predicting Team Performance From Individual Statistics in Basketball"
  • Jason Michael Gardner, "Understanding Neighborhood Inequity"
  • Nicolas Hugo Gargurevich, “Predicting Mental Health Ailments Through the Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms"
  • Parker Morgan Graham, “Closing the Gap: A data science approach to reducing academic achievement gaps among high school students”
  • Adam Shai Gurin, “Air Pollution during COVID-19”
  • Wei-Lin Hsiao, "Detecting Political Ingroup Language"
  • Chuyue Huang, "Optimizing Houston's Emergency Response Fleet Profile"
  • Jasper Shih-Cheng Huang, "Building a predictive maintenance model for CCLP compressor's fleet"
  • Vincente Andres Iglesias, "Modeling SPX Volatility to Improve Options Pricing"
  • Aaryan Jadhav, “COVID-19 Impact Analysis on EMS Services”
  • Mengjia Burgstahler Jiang, “Air Pollution during COVID-19”
  • Aanu-Oluwa Mervy Jibodu, "Machine Learning Models to Predict the Development of Childhood PTSD in Traumatic Injury Survivors"
  • Elijah M. Lipkin, "Understanding Neighborhood Inequity"
  • Kyle Shaun Manning, “Anomaly & Data Quality Detection for Oil & Gas operations using Deep Neural Networks”
  • Jingxin Mao, "Optimizing Houston's Emergency Response Fleet Profile"
  • Marcus B. Martinez, "Optimizing Houston's Emergency Response Fleet Profile"
  • Christopher James McCarthy, "Data Science, Meet Emotion: Increasing Empathy in Customer Service Interactions Using Natural Language Processing"
  • Cole M. Morgan, “Understanding Risk Factors Associated with Emergency Calls for the Houston Fire Department”
  • Joseph Michael Price, "The Bill.com Positive Feedback Cycle: Using Customer Feedback to Understand User Pain Points"
  • Ryan Quach, “Automated Anomaly Detection for Oil and Gas Compressors”
  • Noushin Naowar Quazi, “"Directionality of Functional Connectivity Across Dorsal Visual and Prefrontal Cortical Areas Assessed by Phase Slope Index Analysis"
  • Xin Tan, “Novel Arrhythmias Detection Tool for Children with Congenital Heart Disease”
  • Bradley Mitchell Van Allen, “A Comparison of Functional Principal Component Analysis Methods with Accelerometry Applications"
  • Emily Yishing Wang, “Community Risk Reduction and Assessment for Fire and Emergency Medical Services”
  • Noah Judson John Webb, “Relevant National Factors for Modern Vaccination Distribution"
  • Allison Wu, “Defense Wins Championships: Predicting Team Performance From Individual Statistics in Basketball"
  • Rosemary Yang, “COVID-19 Impact Analysis on EMS Services”
  • Ken Gary Zeng, “Automated Anomaly Detection for Oil and Gas Compressors”
  • Sean H. Zhang, “Community Risk Reduction and Assessment for Fire and Emergency Medical Services”
  • Youshan Zhou, “Clustering and Predicting Daily Energy Consumption Behavior Using London Smart Meter Data"

Statistics Minors 

  • Matthew Robert Barclay
  • Henry Michael Creamer
  • Melinda Jiayu Ding
  • Pinglan Gao
  • Emma Danny He
  • Angela Lydia Hwang
  • Alan Baonan Ji, 
  • Irene Kyungrin Kwon
  • Richard Y. Liu
  • Le Meng
  • Cailey Ann Renken
  • Zixin Ye