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 Assistant 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 Statistician at JP Morgan, San Francisco, CA
  Dissertation: Optimal sequentially planned change-point detection procedures
  Defended and graduated in Fall 2006
  
  
• Xuan Chen, now Senior Statistician in the Biostatistics Research Group, Sanofi Pasteur, Beijing, China
  Dissertation: Change-point analysis of survival data with application in clinical trials
  Defended and graduated in Summer 2009

In Process...

• Yi Zhong
  Dissertation: Error spending approach to optimal sequential planning
  Expected graduation: 2010
  
  
• Xian Yu (co-advised with Professor P. Choudhary)
  Dissertation: Sequential change-point analysis of Markov chains as a tool of fast detection of epidemic trends
  Expected graduation: 2010-2011
  
  
• Rui Xu
  Dissertation: Sequential estimation and testing of credibility factors
  Expected graduation: 2011-2012