Students

Current

Postdoctoral researchers

• Caleb Leedy Aug 2025 – Aug 2027 University of Ottawa.Co-supervised with David Haziza.Working jointly with the Bank of Canada through a Mitacs grant.

Ph.D. students

• Shengzhou Li Sep 2026 – present McGill University.Co-supervised with Tim Hoheisel.
• Kalil Bouhadra Sep 2025 – present McGill University.
• Ziming An Aug 2023 – present University of Ottawa.Co-supervised with David Haziza.

M.Sc. students

• Xiao Qi Li Sep 2025 – present McGill University.

Undergraduate research

• Peter Buddle Sep 2026 – present Majors project (MATH 410).Topic: Central limit theorems in survey sampling.
• Catherine Chen Sep 2026 – present Majors project (MATH 410).Topic: Concentration inequalities in survey sampling.

Former students and visitors

M.Sc. students

• Mila Pourali Jan 2025 – Jul 2026 McGill University.Thesis: Asymptotic efficiency of the assumption-lean generalized regression estimator.
• Evelyn Hubbard Sep 2024 – Jul 2026 McGill University.Co-supervised with Abbas Khalili.Thesis: Linear regression under covariate shift and model misspecification: benefits and costs of importance weighting.Now: Ph.D. student, Université de Montréal.
• Gulliver Hager Sep 2024 – Jul 2026 McGill University.Thesis: Survey trees: from predictive performance to estimator efficiency for tree-based models adapted for model-assisted estimation in survey sampling.Now: Morgan Stanley.
• John Tsang Aug 2023 – Jan 2025 University of Ottawa.Co-supervised with David Haziza.Thesis: Data integration for two-phase surveys.Now: Statistics Canada.

Undergraduate research

• Peter Buddle May 2026 – Aug 2026 NSERC USRA summer research internship.Topic: Central limit theorems in survey sampling.
• Rob Li May 2025 – Aug 2025 NSERC USRA summer research internship.Co-supervised with Hui Shen.Topic: Differential privacy for survey data.
• Rob Li Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 Honours research project (MATH 470).Topic: Differential privacy.
• Diego Urdapilleta de la Parra Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 Majors project (MATH 410).Topic: Model selection and aggregation for regression.
• Mila Pourali May 2024 – Aug 2024 Honours research project (MATH 470).Topic: Foundations of semiparametric theory and missing data.
• Xiao Qi Li May 2024 – Aug 2024 Honours research project (MATH 470).Topic: Active statistical inference for finite population sampling.
• Simon Savaria May 2024 – Aug 2024 Honours research project (MATH 470).Topic: Resampling methods for variance estimation.
• Yajun Hui Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 Honours research project (MATH 470).Topic: Estimator selection for survey data.

Visiting graduate students

• Enzo Abdallah-Herve Apr 2024 – Jul 2024 École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay.Topic: Covariate shift problems in regression.
• Kalil Bouhadra Mar 2024 – May 2024 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).Topic: High-dimensional statistics with survey data.