Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. in Mathematics with Concentration in Statistics

Keith E. Hackett

• Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Mechanistic Modeling of Water Quality: Hillsborough Bay, Florida
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2011

Carlos A. Molinares

• Dissertation: Parametric and Bayesian Modeling of Reliability and Survival Analysis
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2011
• First Position: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo

Dimitrios Vovoras

• Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Modeling: Cancer, Clinical Trials, Environment and Epidemiology
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2011
• First Position: USF, Tampa

Chunling Cong

• Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2010

Nabin Manandhar

• Dissertation: Statistical Learning And Behrens Fisher Distribution Methods For Heteroscedastic Data in Microarray Analysis
• Advisor: K. M. Ramachandran, 2010

Ling Wu

• Dissertation: Stochastic Modeling and Statistical Analysis
• Advisor: G. S. Ladde, 2010

O'Neil Lynch

• Dissertation: Mixture Distributions With Application to Microarray Data Analysis
• Advisors: K. Ramachandran and W. Kim, 2009
• First Positon: Minnesota State University

Armando Hoare

• Dissertation: Parametric, Non-Parametric and Statistical Modeling of Stony Coral Reef Data
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2008
• First Position: USF St. Petersburg

Branko Miladinovic

• Dissertation: Kernel Density Estimation of Reliability With Applications to Extreme Value Distributions
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2008
• First Position: University of Tampa

Shou Hsing Shih

• Dissertation: Forecasting Models for Economic and Environmental Data
• Advisor: C. Tsokos, 2008

Florence George

• Dissertation: Johnson System of Distributions and Microarray Data Analysis
• Advisor: K. Ramachandran, 2007
• First Position: Florida International University

Alfred K. Mbah

• Dissertation: Theory of Records and Applications
• Advisor: C. P. Tsokos, 2007

Gokarna R. Aryal

• Dissertation title: Study of Laplace and Related Probability Distributions and Their Applications
• Advisor: C. P. Tsokos, 2006
• First position: Purdue University Calumet

Louis R. Camara

• Dissertation title: Statistical Modeling and Assessment of Software Reliability
• Advisor: C. P. Tsokos, 2006
• First position: USF St. Petersburg

Abdelelah M. Mostafa

• Dissertation title: Regression Approach to Software Reliability Models
• Advisor: K. Ramachandran, 2006
• First position: Unknown

Lakshminarayan Rajaram

• Dissertation title: Statistical Models for Environmental and Life Sciences
• Advisor: C. P. Tsokos, 2006
• Current position: St. Petersburg College

Rebecca D. Wooten

• Dissertation: Statistical Environmental Models: Hurricanes, Lightning, Rainfall, Floods, Red Tide and Volcanoes
• Advisor: C.P. Tsokos, 2006
• First position: USF, Tampa

Zhao Chen

• Dissertation: Bayesian and Empirical Bayes Approaches to Power Law Process and Microarray Analysis
• Advisor: A. N. V. Rao, 2004
• First Position: Florida Gulf Coast University

George Yanev

• Dissertation: Statistical Modeling of Epidemic Disease Propagation via Branching Processes and Bayesian Inference
• Advisor: C.P. Tsokos, 2001
• First Position: USF, St. Petersburg
• Current Position: The University of Texas-Pan American

Ming Dai

• Dissertation: Identification of the Parameters of a Multivariate Normal Distribution by the Distribution of Maximum
• Advisor: A. Mukherjea, 2000
• First Position: University of Pennsylvania

Henry W. Roberts

• Dissertation: Predicting the Performance of Software Systems via the Power Law Process
• Advisor: C.P. Tsokos and A.N.V. Rao, 2000
• First Position: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

Vincent A. R. Camara

• Dissertation: Bayesian Reliability Modeling With Applications
• Advisor: C.P. Tsokos, 1997
• First Position: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Current Position: Unknown