Assistant Professor
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
The University of Western Ontario
PhD students
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Ana Carolina da Cruz, PhD student, September/2021 – Current
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Chengqian Xian, PhD student, September/2020 – September/2024
Co-supervisors: Wenqing He and Felipe Rodrigues
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Zahra Shirazi, PhD student, September/2020 – November/2024
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Department of Statistics, University of Campinas, Brazil
Co-supervision of Pedro H. T. de Oliveira Sousa, PhD student, January/2021 – March/2023
Supervisor: Ronaldo Dias
Thesis title: A Bayesian Approach to Functional Data Representation and Variable Selection in Functional Regression
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Yawo Kobara, PhD student, September/2020 – April/2022
Co-supervisors: Felipe F. Rodrigues, King’s College and David Stanford, DSAS, UWO.
Thesis title: Statistical Applications to the Management of Intensive Care and Step-down Units
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Department of Statistics, University of Campinas, Brazil
Co-supervision of Gabriel Franco, PhD student, November/2018 – January/2021
Supervisor: Nancy Garcia
Thesis title: Aggregated Functional Data Model Applied on Clustering and Disaggregation of Electrical Load Profiles
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mentor of Negar Safinianaini, PhD student, October/2018 – May/2022
Supervisor: Jens Lagergren
MSc students
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Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil
Applied Thermal Engineering Laboratory
Co-supervision of Renan Santos Barbosa, MSc, February/2023 – current
Supervisor: Guilherme Borges Ribeiro
Thesis title: Prediction of Critical Heat Flux via Machine Learning
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Institute of Mathematical and Computation Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Co-supervision of João Pedro A. R. da Silva, MSc, February/2021 – March/2024
Co-supervisor: Mário de Castro
Thesis title: Clustering for Spectral Data
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Pedro Assunção Rangel, M.Sc. student, September/2021 – December/2022
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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UWO.
Co-supervision of Yeu Deck, MESc student, May/2020 – April/2022
Co-supervisors: Reza Najafi and David Sills
Thesis title: Characterizing the Concurrent Occurrence of Tornadoes and Flash Floods Across Canada
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Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, UWO.
Supervision of Jiayue (Wren) Tian, M.Sc. student, September/2020 – August/2021
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Co-supervision of Yeu Deck, MESc student, May/2020 - April/2022
Thesis title: Characterization of the Compounding Effects of Flash Floods and Tornadoes
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UWO
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Supervision of Fatemeh Gholizadeh, September/2019 – August/2020
Project title: Clustering Brain Cells’ Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data
Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, UWO
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Supervision of Chengqian Xian, September/2019 – August/2020
Project title: Predictive Modelling of Health Outcomes in Intensive Care Units
Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, UWO
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Co-supervision of Patrick Adjei and Nittin Sethi, MEng students, September/2019 – August/2020
Project title: Energy Disaggregation using Multilabel Binarization and Gaussian Naive Bayes Classifier
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UWO
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Co-supervision of Dyeice Emile Roberti Rassi, M.Sc. student, July/2019 – April/2020
Thesis title: Factors associated with unplanned hospital readmissions within one year post-stroke.
School of Nursing, School of Nursing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil