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VI. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
General - Good employment opportunities exist for our graduates. About 50% of our Ph.D. graduates have taken academic positions. There seems to be a good market for such graduates, especially for those who have demonstrated the ability to teach well, and the flexibility of handling the theory and applications of statistics and probability. A new Ph.D. accepting an assistant professorship earns from $70,000 to $80,000 for the nine-month academic year. At many universities, summer teaching would add approximately 20% to these figures. There will probably be an increased number of positions open in government and industry. Annual salaries for industrial positions command $75,000-$90,000.
All of our M.S. graduates who have not continued into Ph.D. work have found professional positions in industry or government. Positions are especially easy to find for those with a background in the use of computers and experience in statistical consulting. A M.S. graduate can expect to be offered a salary of $50,000 to $65,000 per year. Over the last ten years our M.S. graduates have taken positions at Dow Chemical, Wyatt Corporation, State Farm Insurance, Michigan Cancer Foundation, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Parke-Davis, Intel Corp., Bristol-Myers Squibb, American Express, Sears, Kellogg Cereal Company, Scorex Corp and Caterpillar Corp.
VI.1 Positions Accepted by
Ph.D. Graduates:
Below is a list of Ph.D. graduates of the Department since Summer 2005, their thesis advisors, and their initial (or in some cases latest) positions.
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Name
(Advisors)
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Thesis
Title
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Date of Ph.D.
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Position
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Wang, Li
(V. Mandrekar)
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Semilinear stochastic differential equations in Hilbert spaces driven by Non-Gaussian noise and their asymptotic properties.
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SU
2005
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Oregon State University
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Xue, Lan
(Lijian Yang)
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Additive coefficient modeling via marginal integrations and polynomial spline smoothing
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SU 2005
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Oregon State University
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Yi, Tingting
(Hira L. Koul)
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Some inference problems for interval censored data
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SU 2005
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Medimmune Co.
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Zhang, Hui
(C. Page & V. Melfi)
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Resampling methods for adaptive designs
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FS 2005
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Bristol, Myers, Scribb
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Guo, Hongwen
(Hira L. Koul)
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Inference on long memory processes
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SP 2006
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ETS-Educational Testing Service
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Wu, Mingxin
(Yijian Zuo) |
Trimmed and winsorized estimators |
SP 2006 |
American Express |
Song, Weixing
(Hira L. Koul) |
Minimum distance measurement errors model fitting |
SU 2006 |
Kansas State University |
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Wang, Jing
(Lijian Yang)
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The
applications of B-spline smoothing.
Confidence bands and additive modeling
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SU
2006
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Univ of Illinois at Chicago
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Luo, Jun
(Hira Koul & Y. Zuo)
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High dimension and small sample size problems: Classification, gene selection and asymptotics
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FS 2006
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Clemson Univ.
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Liu, Lin
(Joseph Gardiner)
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Estimation of net present value of total health care costs
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FS 2006
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Eli Lilly & Co.
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Wang, Li (Lily)
(Lijian Yang)
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Polynomial spline smoothing for time series
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SP 2007
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Univ. of Georgia
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