Ph.D. Students

Trambak is a PhD student in Statistics at USC Marshall School of Business. His research interests include high-dimensional statistical inference, large scale optimization techniques and computational statistics. He has previously served as a quantitative risk modeler in the financial services sector where he developed statistical models for estimating banking regulatory capital for Credit and Operational risk events.

Hailong Cui is a data scientist working at the interface of operations management and data analytics. His current research interests are in the areas of game theory, statistical machine learning and econometrics with applications to sustainability, business analytics and sharing economy. He served as a fraud risk manager with American Express and a credit risk analyst with HSBC. He is a recipient of Provost PhD Fellowship at USC.

Josh is a statistics Ph.D. student in the Marshall School of Business. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in statistics at UCLA, where he analyzed energy consumption data for the UCLA Institute for the Environment and Sustainability. His current research interests are time series analysis and functional data analysis.

Luella Fu is a Ph.D. student in Statistics. Her research interests include high-dimensional data analysis, algorithms, finance and technology. She was previously at Yale conducting biostatistics research and at Facebook modeling advertising revenue.

Han, Rongqing is a first year Ph.D. student in Operations Management. His research interest falls on to the application of econometrics model in operations management. Prior to his Ph.D program in Marshall School of Business, he spent the last six years studying finance at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. He is passionate about learning operations research and stochastic process methodologies and those applications in business world. He wants add more econometrics and empirical elements in the field of operations management during the program.

Erhun Ozkan is a PhD student in the Data Sciences and Operations department. His research interests are application of probability theory, queueing theory, and stochastic processes in matching markets, revenue management, and healthcare systems.