Alumni Stories
Qing Shi - Master of Arts in December 2009
Qing was a Statistics graduate student at our department. Since his graduation, he worked for UNC Chapel Hill as a SAS programmer for statistical data management and statistical analysis until April 2012. Afterwards, Qing started work for PPD, one of the country's largest CRO company as a programmer in Biostatistics Division in RTP branch. His current work comrpises mainly statistical analysis and tabulation of clinical trial data.
Bud Sanders - BA in 1991 and MA in 1993
Bud Sanders graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1991 and an MA in 1993. While at UNCG, he completed a thesis under the direction of Dr. Paul Duvall in the area of dynamical systems. Bud then continued his study of mathematics under the direction of Dr. Robert Daverman at the University of Tennessee where he received a Ph.D. in mathematics (topology) in 1999. He currently is the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computational Science at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
William Ely - MA in Applied Mathematics in 2012
For his thesis, Ely researched a model for forecasting the price of stock options using a measure called “Credibility,” which is used in fuzzy logic and has axioms which are very slightly different from the probability measure (the title was “Pricing European Stock Options using Stochastic and Fuzzy Continuous Time Processes”). As a student, he focused on analysis, statistical programming and time-series forecasting. He currently works at BB&T in Winston-Salem as a Quantitative Analyst. His specific role is in managing “model risk,” which the banking regulators have demanded all banks do to a much larger degree following the financial crisis. Essentially, his job involves researching, testing, breaking, etc the models developed and used by other parts of the bank, and reporting on their theory, controls, deficiencies and potential improvements to the developers, executive management and regulatory bodies.
