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Current Students
Elham Mahdavi Asiabar
MSc Student
Elham’s research involves investigating statisticalmodels to study the effect of cognitive training simultaneously with application of either active or sham transcranial alternating current stimulation on the executive brain functions in dementia population.
Co-advisor: Dr. Zahra Kazem-Moussavi (Biomedical Engineering)
Started: September 2023
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Gayathri Subasinghe
MSc Student
Gayathri’s research involves developing new support vector regression models.
Co-advisor: Dr. Kevin McGregor (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba)
Started: September 2024
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Madhawa Hulangamuwa
MSc Student
Madhawa’s research involves developing new bagging and boosting methodologies for classification.
Started: September 2024
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Former Graduate Students and Postoctoral Fellows
Neve Lowen
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Robust regression analysis using median nomination sampling
Started: September 2022
Finished: August 2024
Institute: Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Bahram Moeinianfar
MSc graduated
MSc thesis: Elite-driven support vector machines for classification
Started: September 2022
Finished: August 2024
Institute: Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Maryam Akhoondi Asadi
MSc graduated
MSc thesis: Developing rank-based classifiers for hip fracture prediction
Finished: April 2024
Co-advised with: Dr. Gabriel Thomas
Institute: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
Olawale F. Ayilara
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Analysis of Multivariate Responses in Patient Report Outcome Measures: Missing Data and Auxiliary Variables
Graduated: 2022
Co-advised with: Dr. Lisa Lix
Institute: Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, CANADA
Publications: https://olawaleayilara.github.io/publications/
Mr. Keith Uzelmann
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Developing new methodologies for rank-based classifiers
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2022
Current Position: Lab Coordinator at University of Manitoba
Dr. Masoud Azimian
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Multivariate Ranked Set Sampling in Finite Popualtions
Institute: Razi University of Kermanshah, IRAN
Graduated: 2022
Co-advisor: Dr.Mohammad Moradi, Razi University, Kermanshah, IRAN
Current Position: Data Scientist, Iran
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/
Dr. Nasrin Faraji
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Estimation in Linear and Generalized Linear Models under Ranked Set Type Sampling Designs
Institute: Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IRAN
Graduated: 2022
Co-advisor: Dr. Nader Nematollahi, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IRAN
Current Position: Data Scientist, Iran
Publications: Biometrics paper
Dr. Mehrdad Mehrjoo
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Using machine learning methods for wind turbine power curve modeling
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2021
Co-advisor: Dr. Miroslaw Pawlak
Current Position: Professional Data Scientist at SkipTheDishes
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vw0m6YYAAAAJ&hl=en
Mrs. Jingyu Wang
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: On fractionally-supervised classification with nominated samples
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2020
Current Position: Data Quality Analyst, RBC Capital Market, Toronto, CANADA
Mr. Pramoda Jayasinghe
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Statistical system identification and classification using Laguerre functions
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2019
Co-advisor: Dr. Behzad Kordi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineerin
Current Position: PhD student of Statistics, University of British Columbia
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Mrs. Sedigheh Omidvar
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Bayesian and Frequentist Analysis of Finite Mixture Models With Rank-Based Data
Institute:Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IRAN
Graduated: 2019
Co-advisor: Dr. Nader Nematollahi, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IRAN
Current Position: Biostatistician, National Organization for Civil Regsitration of Iran
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Mr. Inesh Prabuddha Munaweera Arachchilage
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Shrinkage estimators under generalized garrote and LINEX loss functions for regression analysis
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2018
Co-advisor: Dr. Saman Muthukumarana, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba
Current Position: PhD student of Statistics, University of Manitoba
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Mrs. Parisa Azimaee
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Calibrating surgical SmartForcepsTM using bootstrap and multilevel modeling techniques
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2017
Co-advisor: Dr. Yaser Maddahi, Tactile Robatics, Manitoba, CANADA
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Wawanesa Insurance, CANADA
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Dr. Hamed Janani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Topic: Partial discharge source classification based on analyzing pd pulse waveforms using statistical pattern recognition techniques
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2016
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Meta
Publications: IEEE Xplore
Dr. Sahar Nazari
PhD Graduated
PhD thesis: Nonparametric Density and Distribution Function Estimation Under Partially Rank- Order Set Sampling
Institute: Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Graduated: 2016
Co-advisor: Dr. Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei, Shiraz University, Shiraz, IRAN.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, CANADA
Publications: Google Scholar
Mr. Olawale F. Ayilara
MSc Graduated
MSc Thesis: Quantile regression with rank-based samples
Institute: Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, CANADA
Graduated: 2016
Current Position: PhD candidate at the Department of Community Health Science, University of Manitoba, CANADA
Publications: https://olawaleayilara.github.io/publications/
Dr. Mohammad Nourmohammadi
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Statistical inference with randomized nomination sampling
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2015
Co-advisor: Dr. Brad Johnson, University of Manitoba, CANADA
Current Position: Senior Biostatistician at Labcorp Drug Development, CANADA
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Dr. Elaheh Torkashvand
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: On Small Area Estimation Problems with Measurement Errors and Clustering
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2016
Co-advisor: Dr. Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba, CANADA
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Dr. Shahab Shokrzadeh
PhD graduated
Institute: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada
Graduated: 2015
Co-advisor: Dr. Eric Bibeau, University of Manitoba, CANADA
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Dr. Armin Hatefi
PhD graduated
PhD Thesis: Mixture model analysis with rank based samples
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Graduated: 2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CANADA
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Dr. Nahid Jafari Tabrizi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Topic: Posterior regret gamma ma
Institute: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Year: February 2012-August 2012
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Publications: Electronic Journal of Statistics
Mr. Sayed Jamal Mirkamali
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Proportion estimation using ranked set sampling
Institute: Allameh Tbataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Graduated: 2008
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Arak University, IRAN
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/
Mr. Saeed Majidi
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Ratio estimators using ranked set sampling
Institute: Allameh Tbataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Graduated: 2008
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Pasargad Bank, IRAN
Publications: https://link.springer.com/article/
Mrs. Negin Mahlooji
MSc graduated
MSc Thesis: Sequential point estimation of the scale parameter
Institute: Allameh Tbataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Co-Advisor: Dr. Nader Nematollahi
Graduated: 2006
Current Position: PhD student of Statistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, IRAN
Summer Research Students
Mrs. Rebecca Kozar
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: A Shiney application for signal processing in a robotic studies
Year: May 2020-August 2020
Current Position: Data Processor at Statistics Canada
Mr. Wahid Salauddin
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: A Shiney application for tracing COVID-19 in Canada
Year: May 2020-August 2020
Current Position: Data Analyst, Statistician, Montreal, CANADA
Mr. Joshua Hamilton
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: Support Vector Machines for Spam Email Classification
Year: May 2019-August 2019
Current Position: Data Scientist at Reflod Languages, Vanouver, BC, Canada
Mrs. Tessa Remier
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: Classification of Books Based on Their Genre Using a Naive Bayes Approach
Year: May 2019-August 2019
Current Position: MSc student, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Canada
Mrs. Jingyu Wang
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: Ratio estimators with rank-based samples with applications in bone mineral density
analysis
Year: May 2018-August 2018
Current Position: Data Quality Analyst,Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, CANADA
Mr. Naser Davarzani
Undergraduate summer research student
Research subject: Sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) in the family of gamma distributions
Institute: Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Year: May 2004-August 2004
Current Position: Credit Risk Model Developer at ING/Data Scientist, Diemen, Netherlands