Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

Research Students


Prospective PhD Student

You may pursue a PhD under my supervision in an area of mutual interest. Drop by my office for a chat if you are interested. You are welcome to send me a statement of purpose, a written research report (if available) and CV if you are not in Christchurch, NZ.
See Codes for details on coding aspects of PhD topics with a concurrent programming component.
See Proposals for details on a subset of the following possible PhD topics:
  1. Set-valued Mathematics, Applied Interval Analysis
  2. Randomized Set-valued Algorithms
  3. Nonparametric Statistical Methods with Recursively Computable Statistical Information Structures
  4. Mathematical Genetics: Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Molecular Genetics
  5. Statistical Genetics: Sufficiency and Approximate Sufficiency of Statistical Experiments in Molecular Genetics, Particle Filtering over Partially-Ordered Experiments Graph
  6. Computational Genetics: Computationally Intensive Inference in Molecular Genetics using Approximate Bayesian/Likelihood Computations,
  7. Spatial Stochastic Processes for Image Formation
  8. Rigorous Parameter Estimation for a measurable double pendulum
See Postgraduate studies for prospective research students for more information on overview, application procedure and funding opportunities.

Current Students

PhD Students

  1. 2007-Current (Senior Supervisor): Gloria Teng - Density Estimation with Statistical Regular Pavings
    • Saturday June 8 2010, Poster presented by Gloria Teng on "Statistical Regular Sub-pavings for Multivariate Density Estimation", Gloria Teng, Jennifer Harlow, Dominic Lee and Raazesh Sainudiin, at The International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 2010 World Meeting in conjunction with the Ninth Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics in Benidorm, Spain, June 3-8 2010 (PDF 552KB)
    • Monday August 2 2010, Talk by Gloria Teng on "Adaptive Histograms from a Randomized Queue that is Prioritized for Statistically Equivalent Blocks", Gloria Teng, Jennifer Harlow and Raazesh Sainudiin, at The 19th International Conference on Computational Statistics in Paris, France, August 23-27 2010 (PDF 1.8MB)
    • Statistical regular pavings to analyze massive data of aircraft trajectories, Gloria Teng, Kenneth Kuhn and Raazesh Sainudiin, 2011 (PDF 740KB)
    • Posterior expectation of regularly paved random histograms, Gloria Teng, Jennifer Harlow, Dominic Lee and Raazesh Sainudiin, October 30, 2011 (PDF 436KB)
  2. 2010-Current (Senior Supervisor): Steve Manion - Contextual Fluency in Machine Translation
    • Wednesday September 14 2011, Poster presented by Steve Manion on "Wikipedia-based Context Visualisation", Steve Manion and Raazesh Sainudiin, at The 18th Machine Learning Summer School, Bordeaux, France, co-organized by INRIA and PASCAL, September 4-17 2011 (PDF 832KB)
    • Over the summer Steve will be completing an internship at Pingar, a New Zealand based company building technologies based on semantic text analysis to help companies organise their unstructured data. Steve will be working on Pingar's API for analysing Japanese documents to enable Pingar’s roll out into the Japanese market. He will also participate in a joint research project between Pingar and the University of Waikato, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. He will be collaborating with Dr. David Milne, Dr. Anna Huang and Dr. Jeen Broekstra. The project is focused on automatically creating taxonomies from document collections. Steve’s current PhD project at Canterbury University also involves extracting meaningful networks from unstructured data therefore the experience gained from working on this project will equip him with many skills he can bring back to his own project. The University of Waikato is well known around the world in the field of data mining and machine learning, in particular notable projects are WEKA, Maui and Koru. Pingar has a strong research connection with the University of Waikato. Overall this is a great opportunity for Steve to be able to collaborate with many leading scientists in his field and learn many new skills.
  3. 2011-Current (Co-supervisor): Hamid Asgari - Modelling and Control of Industrial Power Plant Gas Turbines Using Artificial Neural Networks
    • Application of artificial neural networks to rotating equipment, Hamid Asgari, XiaoQi Chen and Raazesh Sainudiin, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Rotating Equipment in Oil and Power Industries, Tehran, Iran, November 22-23, 2011 (PDF 744KB)
    • Considerations in Modelling and Control of Gas Turbines - a Review, Hamid Asgari, XiaoQi Chen and Raazesh Sainudiin, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, and Automation, December 27-29, 2011 in Shiraz, Iran, 2011 (PDF 540KB)

Masters Students

  1. 2012 : Irene Van Woerden - A statistical investigation of the risk factors for tuberculosis in India and New Zealand
  2. 2012 : Jennifer Harlow - Approximate Bayesian Computations in Population Genetics

Honours Students

  1. 2011 Nuradilla Azhari - Exact transdimensional estimation of primate genetrees

Research Students

  1. 2011: Irene Van Woerden - Research project in STAT459: Advanced computational statistics course on Algebraic Staistics of NZ Crime Data
    • "Using algebraic methods to test the independence of ethnicity and resolution for drug-related crimes in NZ", Irene van Woerden and Raazesh Sainudiin, 2011 (preprint in progress). Irene gave a talk about this work on Wednesday August 31 at 62nd annual meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association, Auckland, New Zealand, August 28-31, 2011 (PDF 592KB)
  2. 2008-2010: Jennifer Harlow - programming for mrs-0.1.2: A C++ class library for statistical set processing and EABC module of lce: A C++ class library for lumped coalescent experiments
  3. 2009-2010: Brendan Bycroft - programming for MCT: Markov Chains on Trees -- for simulating the evolution of repetitive and non-repetitive DNA on demographically and spatially structured ancestral recombination graphs. MCT is a module of lce: A C++ class library for lumped coalescent experiments
    • Doom 2010
    • Dec 2010 Molecular Ecology Meeting Catlins

Former Research Students

  1. 2009-2010: Thomas Steinke - A Rigorous Extension of the Schönhage-Strassen Integer Multiplication Algorithm Using Complex Interval Arithmetic, Thomas Steinke and Raazesh Sainudiin, June 3, 2010, EPTCS 24 Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis, Zhenjiang, China, 21-25th June 2010 (preprint). Thomas gave a Talk at CCA2010. Thomas joined a PhD program in Computer Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  2. 2009-2010: Josh Collins - Statistical Classification of Medical Images. Joined Maths PhD Program at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
  3. 2008-2009: Piers Lawrence - UC Summer Scholar on A Mechatronically Measurable Double Pendulum. Joined Applied Maths PhD Program at University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
  4. 2007-2008: Bry Ashman - programming for Galton’s Septcunx, a Visual Cognitive Tool GUI. Joined IP Traffic Analysis Team in local industry.

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