Mihye Ahn

Post Doctoral Research Associate
Biostatistics

Email: ahnm at bios dot unc dot edu

Education

2005-2010 PhD in Statistics, North Carolina State University

2004-2005 Graduate study, Statistics, Inha University, South Korea

2002-2004 MSc in Statistics, Inha University, South Korea

1998-2002 BSc in Statistics, Inha University, South Korea BBA in Administration BSF in Financial Analytics

Research Interests

Variable Selection

Time Series

Linear Mixed Model

Experience

Jul 2011 - Present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jan 2011 - Jun 2011 Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, NCSU

Fall 2005 - Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, NCSU

May 2008 - Jun 2008 Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, NCSU

May 2005 - Jul 2005 Analyst, SK corporation, Seoul, South Korea

Mar 2002 - Feb 2005 Consultant, Statistical Consulting Center, Inha University, South Korea

Honors and Awards

Mar 2007 Elected to Mu Sigma Rho, a national statistics honor society

Fall 2005 - Spring 2007 Received a Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation

Spring 2004 - Spring 2005 Received a Inha Vision Fellowship, Inha University

Spring 2002 - Fall 2003 Received a Graduate Fellowship, Inha University

Feb 2002 Received the Presidential Award for Honor Students, South Korea

Feb 2002 Graduated with Honors (ranked first in class)

Spring 2000 - Fall 2001 Received a Fellowship, Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation

Spring 1998 - Fall 2001 Dean's List (8 out of 8 semesters)

Fall 1998 - Fall 1999 Received a Scholarship for Honor Students

Publications

1. Mihye Ahn, Hao Helen Zhang, and Wenbin Lu. (2011), "Efficient Estimation of Standard Errors for Lasso Estimates in Linear Models" (In preparation)

2. Mihye Ahn, Hao Helen Zhang, and Wenbin Lu. (2011), "A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Random Effects Selection in Linear Mixed Models" (In preparation)

3. Mihye Ahn, Hao Helen Zhang, and Wenbin Lu. (2011), "Moment-based Method for Random Effects Selection in Linear Mixed Models" (Submitted)

4. Jae June Lee and Mihye Ahn (2004), "Influence of Special Causes on Stochastic Process Adjustment", Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 33, 219-231.