College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Class of 2008
May 2008
NAME AND DEGREE | INITIAL PLACEMENT |
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Tyler Biggs, BS Actuarial Science | Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA |
Jonggyu Baek, BS Statistics | |
Catlin Meryl Crabb, BS Statistics | |
Wade Thomas Daniluk, MS Actuarial Science | Travelers Insurance, St. Paul, MN |
Robert Jay Delsing, MS Actuarial Science | AEGON, Cedar Rapids, IA |
Dai Feng, PhD Statistics, thesis: "Bayesian Hidden Markov Normal Mixture Models with Application to MRI Tissue Classification" | Merck & Company, Rahway, NJ |
Katherine Elizabeth Furgol, MS Statistics, thesis: "Trend Estimation under NCLB: A Novel Method for Estimating Trends from Censored Assessment Data" | Graduate Student at the University of Iowa |
Xiaoli Gao, PhD Statistics, thesis: "Penalized Methods for High-Dimensional Least Absolute Deviation Regression." | Oakland University, Rochester, MI |
Weijie Hu, MS Statistics | |
Jianhua Huang, MS Statistics | |
Yiwen Huang, MS Statistics | |
Jun Jiang, MS Actuarial Science | Milliman, Chicago, IL |
Skyler Rustin Johnson, BS Statistics | |
Bangwon Ko, PhD Statistics, thesis: "On Sums of Dependent Heavy-tailed Random Variables and Valuation of Equity-linked Insurance Products" co-advisors: Elias Shiu and Qihe Tang | Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea |
Yeok Ok Lee, PhD Statistics, Thesis: "A Mixture of Semiparametric Models" | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
Shan Li, MS Statistics | |
Yunqin Li, MS Actuarial Science | |
Kai-Mo Liao, MS Actuarial Science |
Aon Hewitt, Lincolnshire, IL |
Lin Lin, MS Actuarial Science | Gen Re Life Health, Stamford, CT |
Peony Lin, BS Actuarial Science | Farm Bureau Financial Services, West DesMoines, IA |
Xi Liu, MS Actuarial Science | ING, Westchester, PA |
Guangmei Luo, MS Actuarial Science | |
Jun Ryong Oh, MS Actuarial Science | CIGNA, Philadelphia, PA |
Jerome Pansera, PhD in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, thesis: "Local Risk Minimization, Consistent Interest-Rate Modeling, and Applications to Life Insurance" advisor: Elias Shiu | Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa |
Heliang Qu, MS Actuarial Science | Manulife, Canada |
Kent Stephen Schrad, BS Actuarial Science | Deloitte, Minneapolis, MN |
Lindsey Marie Scott, BS Actuarial Science | Deloitte, Minneapolis, MN |
Yaping Shi, MS Statistics | |
Fei Su, MS Actuarial Science | PhD Student, University of Iowa |
Shih-Wei Su, MS Actuarial Science | |
Emanoil Theodorescu, MS Actuarial Science | Northern Illinois University, IL |
Meng-Ling Tsai, MS Actuarial Science | AEGON, Cedar Rapids, IA |
Nicholas Weber, BS Actuarial Science | John Hancock, Boston, MA |
Tingting Xiao, MS Actuarial Science | Aviva, Des Moines, IA |
Yunlong Xie, MS Statistics | PhD Student, University of Iowa |
Jun Yang, MS Actuarial Science | PhD Student, University of Iowa |
Xiao Yang, MS Statistics | PhD Student, University of Iowa |
Zhiyu Yun, MS Actuarial Science | |
Fan Zhang, MS Actuarial Science | |
Yuan Zhang, MS Actuarial Science | MS Statistics Student, University of Iowa |
August 2008
NAME AND DEGREE | INITIAL PLACEMENT |
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Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD Statistics, Thesis: "Topics in Statistical Epidemiology" | Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
Rachelle Ann Altenhofen, BS Actuarial Science | |
Rashidat Akosua Brobbey, MS Statistics | |
Jeremy Daniel Cordes, BS Actuarial Science | |
Xiangming Fang, PhD Statistics, Thesis: "Generalized Additive Models with Correlated Data" | East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |
Jung Sung Moon, BS Statistics | |
Grigor Nika, MS Statistics | |
David Schreindorfer, MS Statistics, Thesis: "Volatility Estimation with High-frequency Data: A Comparison of Realized Variance Estimators" | Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Jung-Eun Song, PhD Statistics, Thesis: "Bayesian Linear Regression Via Partition" | Electrical Geodesics, Eugene, OR |
Jing Zhao, MS Statistics |
December 2008
NAME AND DEGREE | INITIAL PLACEMENT |
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Kyle Mulholland, BS Actuarial Science | Prudential, Hartford, CT |
Xu Yu, BS Actuarial Science | MIT Doctoral Program |