Ph.D. Students

	Name	Year	Thesis
1	Lioyd Jaising	Ph. D., July 1985, Coadvisor at Texas Tech University	A Flexible Bathtub Hazard Model for Nonrepairable Systems
2	Pei-San Liu	Ph. D., August 1989	Estimation of Parameters and Reliability in Generalized Life Models
3	Younshik Chung	Ph. D., August 1990	On Estimation of Parameters from Compound Power Series Distributions
4	Fengchun Peng	Ph. D., December 1993	On the Use of Information and Divergence Measures in Bayesian Analysis
5	Lea Birmiwal	Ph. D., May 1994	Bayesian Robustness Measures Under Different Classes of Priors
6	Hong Chang	Ph.D., August 1995	Model Determination Using Predictive Distributions
7	Daniel T. Larose	Ph.D., August 1996	Bayesian Approaches to Meta-Analysis Using Weighted Distributions and Grouped Random Effects Models
8	Kuo-ren Lou	Ph.D., August 1996	Some Aspects of Bayesian Robustness
9	Murali Niverthi	Ph.D., March1997	Bayesian Methods in Quality Control and Software Reliability
10	Malini Iyengar	Ph.D., July 1997	Bayesian Analysis of Compositional Data
11	Kaushik Patra	Ph.D., Dec 2000	Innovative Approaches to Reliability and Survival Analysis
12	Athanasios Micheas	Ph.D., July 2001	Statistical Modeling and Geometry of Shapes
13	Amitabha Bhaumik	Ph.D., July 2003	Dynamic Hierarchical Models with Applications
14	Rongwei Fu	Ph.D., August 2003	Probabilistic Structure and Statistical Inference for Nonexplicit Population Models and Allele Frequency
15	Junfeng Liu	Ph.D., June 2003	On Skew-elliptical Distributions with Applications
16	Seongho Song	Ph.D., August 2005	Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Genetic Diversity in Geographically Structured Populations
17	Samiran Ghosh	Ph.D., July 2006	Clustering, Classification and Function Estimation for High Dimensional Data Arising from Bioinformatics and Related Domains
18	Ulysses Diva	Ph.D., August 2006	Novel Approaches in Modeling Spatially Correlated Multivariate Data
19	Feng Guo	Ph.D., August 2007	Modeling Genetic Data using Bayesian Hierarchical Models. Assistant Professor.

Current Ph.D. Students

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1. Sourish Das

2. Xia Wang

3. Elijah Gaioni

4. Sandra Hurtado

5. Sylvie Tchumtchoua