Our research team addresses critical challenges in modern datasets and multi-view learning, with a strong emphasis on developing innovative methodologies motivated by real-world applications in microbiome multi-omics, spatial multi-omics, spatio-temporal sensor data, and loss reserving using multiple loss triangles.
| Date | Updates |
|---|---|
| July 7-8, 2024 | Pratheepa co-organizes a session on the Information Technology - Cybersecurity, Data Science and E-Learning TASME conference |
| June 3, 2024 | Ishanka Fernando presents at the SSC 2024 Annual Meeting |
| May 22, 2024 | Pratheepa Jeganathan presents at the CANSSI Ontario Research Day |
| April 5, 2024 | Xinyue Cui and Kevin Chen present their senior research projects |
| May 22, 2024 | Pratheepa Jeganathan presents at the CANSSI Ontario Research Day |
| March 7, 2024 | Pratheepa Jeganathan presents at Dalhousie University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Seminar |
| February 6, 2024 | Pratheepa Jeganathan presents at the University of Guelph, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Seminar |
| January 18, 2024 | Ishanka Fernando’s master thesis defence |
| Name | Role | Research | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rishikesh Yadev | CANSSI CRT Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2023- 08/2024) | Bike usage design based on sensor data | Co-supervision with Drs. Alex Schmidt (McGill) and Aurelie Labbe (HEC Montreal) |
| Name | Role | Research | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajitha Senanayake | Master’s student in statistics | Partial dependence for spatial clustering: application to spatial omics | 09/2023 - 12/2024 |
| Inwook Back | Ph.D. student in statistics | Replicated spatial point pattern analysis: application to spatial omics | 09/2022 - 08/2026 |
| Pengfei Cai | Ph.D. candidate in statistics | Predictive distribution of loss reserving based on multiple loss triangles | Co-supervision with Dr. Anas Abdallah, 09/2021- 08/2025 |
| Name | Role | Research | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/2025 |
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| Name | Role | Research | After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ishanka Fernando | M.Sc. Statistics (2023-2024) | Time-Aligned Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Application to Longitudinal Microbiome Data | Statistical Analyst, McMaster University Health Sciences |
| Name | Role | Research | After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xinyue Cui | Senior Research Project (2023/2024) | Statistical Methods for the Tissue Microenvironment of Multiplex Images in a Clinical-relevant Manner | Master’s statistics (McGill) |
| Kevin Chen | Senior Research Project (2023/2024) | Extending Microbiome Intervention Analysis with Transfer Functions Using Tree-Based Boosting | Master’s biostatistics (University of Toronto) |
| Keyu Hong | Research Assistant (05/2023-12/2024), Co-supervision with Caroline Junkins, Sharonna Greenberg | Machine-Assisted Methods for Interpreting Students Evaluation of Teaching | Continuing BSc. at McMaster University |
| Hainan Xu | Senior Research Project (2022/2023) | Hierarchical Mixture Models for Microbiome Data | Master’s biostatistics (University of Toronto) |
| Undergraduate summer research (05/2022 - 07/2023), James Stewart Research Support Award | Statistical Methods for Exploring the Arrangement of Myelin Basic Protein in Human Visual Cortex | ||
| Shiheng Huang | Senior Research Project (2022/2023) | Probabilistic Topic Models and Feature Learning to Characterize Tissue Microenvironment in Multiplex Ion- Beam Imaging Data | Continuing co-op at RBC |
| Rashmi Panse | Research Assistant - (09/2022-04/2023), Co-supervision with Drs. Caroline Junkins, Sharonna Greenberg, Amanda Ferguson | Machine-Assisted Methods for Interpreting Students Evaluation of Teaching | Master’s Data Science(University of San Francisco) |
| Mariana Mariles Torres | Undergraduate Research Assistant (09/2021 - 04/2022) | Monte Carlo experiments for generative models with goodness-of-fit measures: application to microbiome data | Canadian Tire Financial Services - Data Scientist |
| Ka Yat Liu | Undergraduate summer research (05/2021 - 08/2021), James Stewart Research Support Award | Statistical methods for microbiome data analysis, https://github.com/kaidenliu0806/summer_research | MDSAI (University of Waterloo) |
| Gheeda Mourtada | NSERC USRA (05/2021 - 08/2021) | Spatial point pattern summaries for spatial count matrix: application to spatial proteomics data | Bell, Developer, Data Science |