Grace Wahba's Former PhD Students

Mark C. K. Yang (1970)
Bernard Viort (1972)
Robert Kuhn (1974)
Guido del Pino (1976)
Heather Lucas Gamber (1978)
Wing-Hung Wong(1980)
James Wendelberger(1982)
Douglas Nychka (1983)
Finbarr O'Sullivan (1983)
Miguel Villalobos (1983)
Jyh-Jen Shiau (1985)
Zehua Chen (1989)
Chong Gu (1989)
Feng Gao (1993)
Yuedong Wang (1994)
Ronaldo Dias (1994)
Dong Xiang (1996)
Zhen Luo (1996)
Jianjian Gong (1996)
Xiwu Lin (1998)
Alan Y. H. Chiang (1999)
Fangyu Gao (1999)
Hao Helen Zhang (2002)
Yoonkyung Lee (2002) (co-advisor Yi Lin)
Chenlei Leng (2004) (co-advisor Yi Lin)
Ming Yuan (2004) (co-advisor Yi Lin)
Xianhong Xie (2005)
Fan Lu (2006)
John Carew (2006)(co-advisor Beth Meyerand)


Grace Wahba's Current PhD Students


Hyonho Chun (advisor Sunduz Keles, co-advisor GW)
Weiliang Shi
Hector Corrada Bravo
Xiwen Ma
Kevin Eng (co-advisor Sunduz Keles)

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Prospective PhD Students


Students on campus who may be interested in statistical modeling, machine learning and data mining for large, complex data sets using splines, (reproducing) kernels, variational and regularization methods; biostatistical modeling and risk factor estimation, supervised machine learning, imaging, inverse and remote sensing problems are invited to e-mail me for an appointment.

Interested in coming to Madison to study?


Write our admissions secretary Ms. Jude Grudzina, jzg@stat.wisc.edu for applications for admission and support in the Statistics Dept, and to check the status of your application. Write me if you have questions about academics, but please do not send me PC-encoded files as the mailer I use does not handle them easily. Also be sure that any information you want the admissions committee to see is contained within the required parts of your application, (for example in your statement), otherwise it may not be seen by the admissions committee. You may see the kinds of projects my group is working on by looking at the reports in the TRLIST


I occasionally have research assistant or project assistant positions to offer, however these usually go first to students who have taken either Statistics 840, 841 or 860 with me, and then to students who will be taking one of them concurrently, and, first to students in the Statistics Department. I generally don't offer assistantships to students before they arrive here. I expect to get to know students before agreeing to supervise their theses. Usually this is by their taking 840, 841 or or 860 with me.


The Statistics department offers a number of guaranteed positions to incoming students. The initial job assignments for the first semester for those who have guaranteed positions are usually teaching assistant positions, but it is possible for them to be converted to research assistant or project assistant positions after the students arrive. There are many opportunities for more advanced students to have research assistantships. Students who apply for support may also be considered for fellowships, no separate application is necessary, altho the number of available fellowships is limited.


You are welcome to see me when you get here - e-mail for an appointment.


I also have courtesy appointments in CS and in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. IMPORTANT NOTE: Statistics and Biostatistics-Medical Informatics admissions are handled through the Statistics Department. For admission to the CS department please contact CS.