PhD Exams

November 2025
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General Medha Agarwal Learning and Inference with Limited Data: Applications in Ecology and Causal Inference
Final James Buenfil Integrative Analysis of Non-Euclidean Data
General Lars Van Der Laan Improved Debiased Machine Learning through Optimization and Calibration
October 2025
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General Alex March Kokot Coreset selection for the Sinkhorn divergence and generic smooth divergences
Final Jillian Fisher Statistical Methods towards Trustworthy AI: From Diagnosis to Control and Societal Implications
August 2025
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Final Daniel Suen Topics in Estimation and Inference with Multivariate Missing Data
July 2025
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Final Alex Ziyu Jiang Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Complex Datasets
Final Sara Laplante Causal Effect Identification via Equivalence Classes of Acyclic Graphs and Data-Driven Adjustment
June 2025
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Final Trinity Shuxian Fan Survey-Based Methodologies for Enhanced Assessment of Cause of Death
Final Jess Kunke Leveraging network information to improve population size estimation in social and environmental applications
Final Ronak Mehta Statistical Foundations of Foundation Modeling
Final Kenny Zhang Bounds and Prediction Intervals for Individual Treatment Effect
General Ronan Perry Topics in Selective Inference
May 2025
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General Vydhourie R T Thiyageswaran Experimentation and Inference on Networks
March 2025
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General Yikun Zhang Nonparametric Inference on Causal Effects of Continuous Treatments: With and Without the Positivity Condition
February 2025
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General Phillip H Keung A Latent Variable Approach to Quantization for Large Language Models
December 2024
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General Jillian Fisher Controllable Language Generation at Every Scale: Balancing Precision and Resources
Final Nathan Welch Probabilistic Models for Human Migration Forecasting and Residency Imputation
General Shreya Prakash Advancing Causal Decomposition and Discovery for Real-World Applications
November 2024
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Final Sarah Teichman Scalable statistical methods for microbial metagenomics