Congratulations May 2006 Graduates!

05-14-2006

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate all of our May 2006 graduates.

Clockwise from the top: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge with Ph.D. Graduate Lianbo Yu; Professor Rebecca W. Doerge with M.S. Graduate Hailong Wang; Professor Rebecca W. Doerge with M.S. Graduate Patricia Yoshida

On May 14, 2006, Purdue University and the Department of Statistics awarded degrees to the following people:

Ph.D. Graduates (Advisor) Dissertation Title

Mr. Lianbo Yu (Rebecca W. Doerge) "Statistical issues in protein microarray analysis"

M.S. Graduates

Mr. Tilman Achberger
Mr. Salman Chand
Mr. Timothy Clough
Ms. Joanne Daggy
Ms. Rebecca Kendall
Ms. Cherie Ochsenfeld
Ms. Laura Ramos
Mr. Adam Reeger
Mr. Hailong Wang
Ms. Patricia Yoshida
Mr. Tao Zhang

Graduate Certificates

Ms. Fei Li
Ms. Duan Liu
Ms. Jennifer Savaiano
Ms. Dazhi Yang
Ms. Qianwei Zhang

Undergraduates in Statistics

Mr. Mohd Hafiz Ab Hamid
Ms. Hsi-Hsuan Bau
Mr. Gregory Baum
Ms. Tasha Beauchamp
Ms. Briana Bethel
Mr. Daniel Bryant
Mr. Sungwoo Choi
Mr. Tj Clinch
Ms. Kari Cripe
Mr. Michael Feikes
Mr. Sean Ganser
Ms. Karyn Gerber
Ms. Heather Hutton
Mr. Ran Jia
Ms. Maria Kirilenko
Ms. Meng-Ju Lee
Mr. Michael Mendel
Mr. Adam Michalek
Ms. Sahara Mohamad
Mr. Ryan Moody
Mr. Erik Mosley
Ms. Krista Noel
Mr. Matthew Pasyk
Mr. Christopher Porter
Ms. Courtney Reifeis
Mr. Joshua Satterlee
Mr. Robert Smock
Ms. Lanaya Stackhouse
Ms. Megan Thomson
Ms. Natalya Utesheva
Mr. Noel Valle
Mr. Clinton Walden
Mr. Christopher Webb
Ms. Erin Wilson
Ms. Nur Bazlin Yusof
Ms. Xiaoli Zhang

Actuarial Science Majors

Mr. Mohd Hafiz Ab Hamid
Ms. Hsi-Hsuan Bau
Mr. Gregory Baum
Ms. Tasha Beauchamp
Ms. Briana Bethel
Mr. Tj Clinch
Mr. Sean Ganser
Ms. Karyn Gerber
Ms. Heather Hutton
Mr. Ran Jia
Ms. Maria Kirilenko
Mr. Adam Michalek
Ms. Sahara Mohamad
Mr. Ryan Moody
Ms. Krista Noel
Mr. Matthew Pasyk
Mr. Christopher Porter
Mr. Robert Smock
Ms. Megan Thomson
Mr. Noel Valle
Mr. Clinton Walden
Ms. Erin Wilson
Ms. Nur Bazlin Yusof
Ms. Xiaoli Zhang

For the academic year 2005-2006, 8 Ph.D. students, 16 M.S. students, 12 Graduate Certificate students, 43 Undergraduate Statistics students and 30 Actuarial Science students received degrees from the Department of Statistics.

We would like to highlight the achievements of one of the Department's M.S. graduates, Patricia Yoshida.

Patricia graduated with a M.S. in Applied Statistics from Purdue. She entered the program in Fall 2004 after obtaining a B.S. in Mathematics, with a Statistics minor, from the University of Washington (Seattle).

While at Purdue, Patricia was part of the Statistical Consulting Service, learning techniques for statistical problem-solving. She was also actively involved in STATCOM, being a project manager and also working on several projects. The summer between her two years at Purdue, she worked at ATK Thiokol, an aerospace company in Utah. She was part of the Statistical Applications Group there, implementing Statistical Process Control and working with engineers on variation reduction and process improvement projects for the space shuttle rocket motors.

For her post-graduation plans, she has accepted a position at Affinnova, a technology-based marketing firm in Boston, MA. She will work as a statistical analyst, which will require data analysis, modeling and scripting as well as customer interfacing.

Best wishes to all of our graduates. We look forward to hearing from you!