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M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

Below is the schedule of upcoming defences for graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. If you wish to attend, please email statgrad at sfu.ca.

Summer 2025

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

JULY

      
25 10:00am LIB 7200
 M.Sc.
 April Houweling
 An Automated Click Classifier for Detecting Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea: The Lasso or Trees?
25 10:30am LIB 2020 Ph.D. Angela Chen
 Stratified Regression Analysis of Zero-Truncated Recurrent Event Data with Applications in Pediatric Mental Health Care
21 10:30am LIB 2020 M.Sc. Hasitha Jayaneththi Koralalage Three methods of generating space-filling designs: a comparison
16 2pm LIB 2020 M.Sc. Adam Gee Investigating Experiential Effects in Online Chess using a Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis
9 10am LIB 7200 M.Sc. George Thomas
 Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in a randomized controlled trial of a nurse-home visiting intervention on child outcomes: A causal forest approach

JUNE

      
13 10:00am ASB 10920 M.Sc. Zikai Xu Meta-analysis with Overlapped Subjects: An Adjusted Fisher’s Method
5
 9:30am LIB 2020 M.Sc. Vatsal Desai Generalized design framework for collective defined contribution pension plans and benefit smoothing mechanisms

MAY

      
22
 2:00pm LIB 2020 M.Sc. Yichen Tang
 Two-Stage Bayesian Analysis of Thick-Disk Galactic White Dwarfs

Spring 2025

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

APRIL

      
24 10:30am LIB 7200 M.Sc. So Yeon Park
 Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Terror Attacks in South Asia with Extended Hawkes Process Models
23 2:00pm ASB 10920 & Zoom Ph.D. Matthew Parker Advances in Ecological Modelling and Disease Analytics
22 2:15pm LIB 2020 M.Sc. Yingfei Sun
 Optimal hurdle rate and investment policies in lifetime pension pools
22 10:00am LIB 2020 & Zoom
 Ph.D. Renny Doig Combining compound proposal mechanisms and annealing schemes to construct more effective modern Monte Carlo methods
16 9:30am LIB 2020 & Zoom
 M.Sc. Chen Liu A comparison of two extreme-phenotype sampling designs for sequencing studies of disease endophenotypes
15 10:00am Zoom Ph.D. Jingxue (Grace) Feng Advanced Bayesian Modeling for Public Health

MARCH

      
7 11:00am Zoom M.Sc. Yulia Kozhevnikova
 BLOST: Bayesian Longitudinally Ordinal Sequential Trial Design for Evaluating Respiratory Disease Treatments
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