Some Publications with Graduate Students

1. Bradley Dyer
Thesis Title: Optimal Triangulation Algorithm and MatLab Implementation
Graduation Date: May 1999.
Publiocation: Bradley Dyer and Don Hong, An algorithm for optimal triangulations on $C^1$ quartic spline approxiamtion and MatLab implementation, J. of Computational Analysis and Applications 5(2003), 25--43.
First Job: Instructor, Department of Math and Computer Sciences, Hazard Community College, Hazard, KY.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Math and Computer Sciences, Hazard Community College, Hazard, KY.

2. Yuchun (Anna) Mu
Thesis Title: Wavelets Construction over Triangulations
Graduate Date: August 1999.
Publiocation: Don Hong and Yuchun Anna Mu, On construction of minimum supported piecewise linear prewavelets over triangulations, In: " Wavelets and Multiresolution Methods," (T.X. He ed.), pp. 181--201, Marcel Decker Pub., New York, 2000.
First Job: Actuary, The St Paul Companies, Inc. 385 Washington Street St. Paul, MN 55102-9947.
Current Position: Actuary, Nationwide companies, property and casualty, Columbus, OH. Email: muy@nationwide.com . FCAS, 2007

3. Hao Gu
Thesis Title: Wavelet Applications in Image Compression (MS in Computer Sciences, co-supervised with Martin Barrett)
Graduate Date: May, 2000.
Publiocation: Hao Gu, Don Hong , and M. Barrett, On still image compression, J. of Computational Analysis and Applications 5(2003), 45--75.
First Job: Software Engineer, Firstlogic, Inc. , Raleigh, NC.
Current Position: Lead Engineer - Software, PQSO Software Group, Eaton Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. Email: HaoGu@eaton.com

4. Renee Guant
Thesis Title: On Airline Revenue Optimization Problems (MS in Math)
Graduate Date: December 2000.
Publiocation: Renee Ferguson and Don Hong , On airline revenue optimization problems, J. Concrete and Applicable Math, (2007). (To appear).
First Job and Current Position: Actuary, Office of the Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD.
Email: B.Renee.Ferguson@ssa.gov

5. Andrew Sell
Thesis Title: A Punt Returner Location Problem in a Directionalizing Strategy (MS in Math, co-chaired with James Boland)
Graduate Date: December 2000.
First Job: Actuary, Merastar Insurance Company, PO Box 181101, Chattanooga, TN 37414-5336.
Current Position: Product Manager, Northeast Region Kemper Auto and Home, Jacksonville Beach, FL.
Email: wsell@kahg.com

6. Lesley B. Reece
Thesis Title: On Random Rates of Interest
Graduate Date: May 2001.
First Job and Current Position: Actuary, Social Security Administration, Room 700 Altmeyer, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235.
Email: Lesley Reece

7. Rusell Mawk
Thesis Title: On Spline Applications to Statistics (MS in Math, co-chaired with Robert Price)
Graduate Date: May 2001.
First Job and Current Position: Actuary, Merastar Insurance Company, PO Box 181101, Chattanooga, TN 37414-5336.
Email: Rusty Mawk

8. Panrong Xiao
Thesis Title: Image compression using (bi-)orthogonal (spline) wavelets (MS in CS, co-chaired with Martin Barrett)
Graduate Date: May 2001.
Publiocation: Don Hong, Martin Barrett, and Panrong Xiao, Biorthogonal Spline Wavelets and EZW Coding for Image Compression, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 299 (Tarn, Tzyh-Jong; Chen, Shan-Ben; Zhou, Changjiu (Eds.)) , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2004, pp.281--303.
First Job: Actuarial Analyst/DB Administrator, Lorraine Dorsa & Associates, Jacksonville Beach, FL.
Email: Panrong Xiao

9. Jiansheng Cao
Thesis Title: Construction of smooth wavelets over triangulations.
Graduate Date: August 2002.
Publiocation: Jiansheng Cao, Don Hong, and Wenjun Huang, Construction of Small Support Piecewise Linear Prewavelets over Type-2 Triangulations, In: Splines and Wavelets: Athens 2005 (G.R. Chen and M.J. Lai Eds.), pp. 105-122, Nashboro Press, Brentwood, 2006.
First Job: actuarial analyst/DB-Administrator, Lorraine Dorsa & Associates, Jacksonville Beach, FL.
Current Position: Pension Actuary, Pension Services, Inc., Miami, FL.
Email: Jiansheng Cao

10. Qingbo Xue
Thesis Title: On bivariate piecewise linear wavelets over arbitrary triangulations.
Graduate Date: August 2002.
Publiocation: Don Hong and Qingbo Xue, Construction of Piecewise Linear Prewavelets over Regular Triangulations, Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics, 4 (2006), 451-471.
First Job: Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
Current Position: Pension Actuary, The Nolan Company, Kansas City, KS.
Email: Qingbo Xue

11. Xiaoyu Mu
Thesis Title: Ruin probabilities with dependent force of interest.
Graduate Date: August 2003.
First Job: Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. Student), Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Email: Xiaoyu Mu or xmu@utk.edu

12. Yong Chen
Thesis Title: Logspline Density Estimation with an Application to Survival Data of Lung Cancer Patients
Graduate Date: August 2004.
First Job: Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, Case Western Researve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Current Position: Graduate Assistant, Quantitative and Computational Finance Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
Email: Yong Chen or yong.chen@gatech.edu

13. Shuo Chen
Thesis Title: Clustering Analysis of MALDI-TOF MS Data from Lung Cancer Patients
Graduate Date: December 2004.
First Job: Bioinformatics Systems Engineer, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Email: Shuo Chen

14. Xingchen Yuan
Thesis Title: Survival Model and Estimation for Lung Cancer Patients
Graduate Date: May 2005.
First Job: Engineer II, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Chicago, IL.
Email: Xingchen Yuan

15. Kazem Karimi
Graduate Date: December 2007.
First Job: Actuary, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN.
Email: Kazem Karimi

16. Linda Chang
Graduate Date: May 2008.
Email: Linda Chang

17. Adam Niblett
Graduate Date: December 2008.
Email: Adam Niblett

18. Qi Lu
Graduate Date: May 2009 (expected).
Email: Qi Lu

19. Fengqing Zhang
Graduate Date: May 2010 (expected).
Email: Zoe Zhang