Recent PHD Graduates
   (Most recent graduates listed first)


JAMES CHOU (Ph.D., 2012)
Supervisor(s): E KANI
Thesis Title: Constructing pairing-friendly algebraic curves of genus 2 with small ρ-value
Recent Employment: Mathematics and Science Instructor, UMCA Rich Tree Academy, Ontario, Canada
DANIEL COWNDEN (Ph.D., 2012)
Supervisor(s): P D TAYLOR
Thesis Title: Evolutionarily stable learning and foraging strategies
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Sweden
Webpage / CV: Curriculum Vita
KARLA FOX (Ph.D., 2012)
Supervisor(s): T DAY and D STEINSALTZ
Thesis Title: A Framework for the Meta-Analysis of Survey Data
Recent Employment: Chief, Data Analysis and Resource Center, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
JIANFENG XU (Ph.D., 2012)
Supervisor(s): P PENG
Thesis Title: Statistical Modeling and Analysis for Survival Data with a Cure Fraction
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
ADAM FELIX (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): R MURTY
Thesis Title: Variations on Artin's Primitive Root Conjecture
Recent Employment: Guest/Postdoc, Max Planck Gesellschaft/Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany
Webpage / CV: Max Planck Webpage>
ELSA HANSEN (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): T DAY
Thesis Title: Applications of Optimal Control Theory to Infectious Disease Modeling
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Massachusetts, USA
AMY HURFORD (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): T DAY and P D TAYLOR
Thesis Title: The evolution of mimicry in parasites
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Field Institute, Centre for Disease Modelling/York University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics/University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Ontario, Canada
SHAN JIANG (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): D TU
Thesis Title: Statistical Inference for the Treatment Effect in Cancer Clinical Trials
Recent Employment: Biostatistician, Everest Clinical Research Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SHIFANG LIU (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): D TU
Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Testing Treatment-Covariate Interactions in Cancer Clinical Trials
Recent Employment: Lead Biostatistician, Biogen Idec Inc., Dept. of Biostatistics, Cambridge, Massachusestts, USA
EMILY REDELMEIER (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): J A MINGO
Thesis Title: Real Second-Order Freeness and Fluctuations of Random Matrices
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris-Sud 11, Département de Mathématiques, France
PATRICK REYNOLDS (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): O I BOGOYAVLENSKIJ
Thesis Title: Hamiltonian Systems of Hydrodynamic Type
Recent Employment: NSERC PDF, McGill University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Quebec, Canada
Webpage / CV: McGill Webpage
VALDEMAR TSANOV (Ph.D., 2011)
Supervisor(s): I DIMITROV
Thesis Title: Embeddings of flag manifolds and cohomological components of modules
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum, Dept. of Mathematics, Bochum, Germany
Webpage / CV: Bochum Webpage
CESAR AGUILAR (Ph.D., 2010)
Supervisor(s): A LEWIS
Thesis Title: Local controllability of affine distributions
Recent Employment: NRC Research Associate, Naval Postgraduate School, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Monterey, CA
Webpage / CV: NPS Webpage
ANDREY PAVLOV (Ph.D., 2010)
Supervisor(s): D STEINSALTZ and D J THOMSON
Thesis Title: A new approach in survival analysis with longitudinal covariates
Recent Employment: Biostatistician, Everest Clinical Research Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Webpage / CV: Curriculum Vita
YINGLIN WU (Ph.D., 2010)
Supervisor(s): I HUGHES and D WEHLAU
Thesis Title: Invariants of Modular Two-Row Groups
BAHMAN GHARESIFARD (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): A R MANSOURI and A LEWIS
Thesis Title: A Geometric Approach to Energy Shaping
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California San Diego (La Jolla), Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, California, USA
Webpage / CV: UC San DiegoWebpage
HUIXIA HE (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): D J THOMSON
Thesis Title: Multitaper Higher-Order Spectral Analysis of Nonlinear Multivariate Random Processes
Recent Employment: Visiting Fellow, Environment Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Ontario, Canada
KYLE LEPAGE (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): D J THOMSON
Thesis Title: Some Advances in the Spectral Analysis of Time Series
Recent Employment: Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA
AKIKO MANADA (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): N KASHYAP
Thesis Title: Minimal Presentations of Sofic Shifts and Properties of Periodic-Finite-Type Shifts
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin, The Claude Shannon Institute, Ireland
AZADEH MOGHTADERI (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): G TAKAHARA and D J THOMSON
Thesis Title: Multitaper Methods for Time-Frequency Spectrum Estimation and Unaliasing of Harmonic Frequencies
Recent Employment: Experimentation Analyst, Customer insights - Customer Analytics, eBay, California, USA
IAN MOORE (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): D J THOMSON and D STRUM
Thesis Title: Forecasting and Nonstationarity of Surgical Demand Services.
Recent Employment: Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Director, Quatrametrics Inc., Ontario, Canada
Webpage / CV: School of Public Health Webpage and Quatrametrics Inc. Webpage
JONATHAN NOVAK (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): R SPEICHER
Thesis Title: Topics in Combinatorics and Random Matrix Theory
Recent Employment: Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, USA
Webpage / CV: MIT Webpage
CHESTER WEATHERBY (Ph.D., 2009)
Supervisor(s): R MURTY
Thesis Title: Transcendence of Various Infinite Series and Applications of Baker's Theorem
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Webpage / CV: Queen's Webpage
CHRISTOPHER BRAV (Ph.D., 2008)
Supervisor(s): M ROTH
Thesis Title: Tilting objects in derived categories of equivariant sheaves
Recent Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, UK
Webpage / CV: Oxford Wepage
EMILIE DUFRESNE (Ph.D., 2008)
Supervisor(s): D WEHLAU
Thesis Title: Separating Invariants
Recent Employment: Postodoctoral Assistant, Universität Basel, Mathematisches Institut, Switzerland
Webpage / CV: Basel Webpage
DAVID TYNER (Ph.D., 2008)
Supervisor(s): A LEWIS
Thesis Title: Geometric Jacobian Linearization
Recent Employment: Research Engineer, Carleton University, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Energy and Emissions Research Lab, Ontario, Canada
YANGFAN ZHONG (Ph.D., 2008)
Supervisor(s): F ALAJAJI and L CAMPBELL
Thesis Title: Joint Source-Channel Coding Reliability Function for Single and Multi-Terminal Communication Systems
Recent Employment: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Manulife Financial, Market and Model Risk Management, Ontario, Canada
AJIT BHAND (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): A LEWIS
Thesis Title: Geodesic Reduction via Frame Bundle Geometry
Recent Employment: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Dept. of Mathematics, Bhopal, India
Webpage / CV: Indian Institute Webpage
JAERIN CHO (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): B LEVIT
Thesis Title: Optimal Design in Regression and Spline Smoothing
RANDALL ELZINGA (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): D A GREGORY
Thesis Title: A Minimum Witt Index of a Graph
Recent Employment: Sessional Asst Professor, Royal Military College of Canada, Dept. of Mathematics an Computer Science, Ontario, Canada
BRANDON FODDEN (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): R MURTY
Thesis Title: Diophantine Equations and the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis
Recent Employment: Academic Assistant, University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Alberta, Canada
Webpage / CV: Lethbridge Webpage
MARILYN REECE MYERS (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): R MURTY
Thesis Title: Variations of Kummer's Conjecture
DMITRY VOYTSEKHOVSKY (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): R M HIRSCHORN
Thesis Title: Applications of Chronological Calculus to Feedback Stabilization
Recent Employment: Consultant, PureFACTS Financial Solutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
YADONG WANG (Ph.D., 2007)
Supervisor(s): F ALAJAJI and T LINDER
Thesis Title: Hybrid Digital-Analog Source-Channel Coding and Information Hiding: Information-Theoretic Perspectives
Recent Employment: Senior Manager, Scotiabank, Model Validation and Approvals, Global Risk Management, Ontario Canada
Webpage / CV: LinkedIn

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