Congratulations August 2010 Graduates!

10-12-2010

August 2010 Graduates: (front) Priyanka Surana and Gayla Olbricht; (back) Paul L. Auer and Andrea Rau. — August 2010 Graduates: (front) Priyanka Surana, Gayla Olbricht *(back) Paul L. Auer, Andrea Rau.*

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate all of our August 2010 graduates. On August 7, 2010, Purdue University and the Department of Statistics awarded degrees to the following people:

Ph.D. Graduates - (Advisor) Dissertation Title

Dr. Paul Livermore Auer. (Advisor: R.W. Doerge) Dissertation Title:"Statistical Design and Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data". (Currently employed: Staff Scientist; Chris Carlson, Charles Kooperberg and Ulrike Peters Labs. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Seattle, WA, USA).
Dr. Gayla Hobbs Olbricht. (co-Advisors: Bruce Craig and R.W. Doerge) Dissertation Title: "Incorporating Genome Annotation in the Statistical Analysis of Genomic and Epigenomic Tiling Array Data". (Currently employed: Visiting Assistant Professor; Department of Statistics, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN, USA).
Dr. Andrea Rau. (Advisor: R.W. Doerge) Dissertation Title: "Reverse Engineering Gene Networks Using Genomic Time-Course Data". (Currently employed: Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Gilles Celeux Lab. The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) and University Paris-Sud 11. Orsay, France).

M.S. Graduates

Cindy Lui
Melissa Yale

Graduate Certificates

Yunguang Chen
Kyle Hernandez
Junyan Ge
Nathanael Yoder

Undergraduates in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences

Siliang Hu
Priyanka Surana
Jennifer Velikan
Shun Yan Beanca Yu