Athanasios Christou Micheas

Associate Professor of Statistics

My Graduate Students

Current Ph.D. Students

Current M.A. Students

Graduated Ph.D. Students

1. Shuwan Wang, Ph.D. A Bayesian Approach to Discovery of Latent Dependency in Point-Referenced Data. Graduated: May, 2024. Joint Advisor with Chris Wikle.

2. Justin Okenye, Ph.D., Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Point Process Models via Conditioning. Graduated: July, 2021. Joint Advisor with Chris Wikle.

3. Jiaxun Chen, Ph.D., Decision Theory and Sampling Algorithms for spatial and spatio-temporal point processes. Graduated: December, 2019. Joint Advisor with Scott Holan.

4. Weichao Wu, Ph.D., Point Processes on the Complex Plane with Applications. Graduated: July, 2019.

5. Christopher Hassett, Ph.D., Modeling Gibbs Point Processes Through Basis Function Decompositions. Graduated: May, 2019. Joint Advisor with Scott Holan.

6. Giorgos Avlogiaris, Ph.D., Local Phi-Divergence in Statistical Information Theory and Applications to testing of Statistical Hypotheses and Model Selection. Graduated: September, 2017. Joint advisor with Kostas Zografos (major advisor), University of Ioannina, Department of Mathematics, Greece.

7. Rima Dey, Ph.D., Random Set Models for Growth with Applications to Nowcasting. Graduated: December 2013.

8. Todd Dewees, Ph.D., A Hierarchical Bayesian Mixture Approach for Modeling Reflectivity Fields with Applications to Nowcasting. Graduated: December, 2009.

Graduated M.Sc. Students

9. Minsun Kim, M.A., Statistics. Thesis Title: Bayesian Model Averaging for Mathematics Achievement Growth Rate Trends. Graduated: May, 2022

10. Ping Liao, MA, Statistics. Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis of Crime Data in Chicago Using Point Process Models. Graduated: April, 2022

11. Nai-En Tang, M.Sc., Statistics. Thesis Title: Spatio-temporal models for predicting county median household. Graduated: December, 2018

12. Hope Moorhead, July 2017, Dual M.A., Statistics-Economics. Joint advisor with Dr. Issac Miller, Department of Economics. Thesis Title: Time-varying Long-run Income and Output Elasticities of Electricity Demand in the United States.

13. Sean McCrary, July 2015. Dual M.A., Statistics-Economics. Joint Advisor with Dr. Saku Aura, Department of Economics. Thesis Title: The Children's Health Insurance Program, Household Labor Supply, and SNAP Participation

14. Ze Wang, M.A., December 2008, Thesis Title: Modeling Mathematics Achievement of Eighth-Graders in USA using Linear Models, Structural Equation Modeling and Full Bayesian Approach

15. Jiahui Yan, M.A., July 2006, Thesis Title: Frequentist and Bayesian Analysis of European Consumer Purchase Intention towards Genetically Modified Foods

16. Majin Saebe, M.A., January 2005, Thesis Title: Modeling Book Customer Preferences using Generalized (Mixed) Linear Models.

17. Rosey Zackula, M.A., September 2003, Thesis Title: Assessing Schizophrenia with Shape Analysis.