USC DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (1998-2006)

1. 
   BUAD 309 Honors, Decision Making Under Uncertainty (Ratings are out of 5)
   

Term: Fall, 2000

Class Size (Section 1): 30

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.8/5.0

Overall Course Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.6/5.0

Class Size (Section 2): 39

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.6/5.0

Overall Course Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.6/5.0

2. 
   GSBA 603, Foundations of Statistical Inference (Ratings are out of 5)
   

Class Size: 6

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.67/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.67/5.00

3. 
   BUAD 310, Applied Business Statistics (Ratings are out of 5)
   

Term: Spring, 1999

Class Size: 282

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.04/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 3.73/5.00
Term: Spring, 2001

Class Size: 266

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.1/5.0

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 3.8/5.0

Class Size: 286

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.6/5.0

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.5/5.0

Class Size: 70

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.89/5.0

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.59/5.00

Class Size: 265

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.58/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.03/5.00

Class Size: 67

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.81/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.44/5.00

Class Size (Section 1): 264

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.46/5.00

Overall Course Rating (Section 1): Mean = 3.80/5.00

Class Size (Section 2): 265

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.53/5.00

Overall Course Rating (Section 2): Mean = 3.88/5.00
Term: Summer, 2006

Class Size: 76

Ratings were unprocessed when I left USC.

4. 
   BUAD 310 Honors, Advanced Business Statistics (Ratings are out of 5)
   

Marshall Honors Program. This program, which I helped develop, was designed to give our best undergraduate majors added depth and breadth of experience based on one-on-one contact with faculty and corporate professionals and involvement in real-world projects.

Class Size: 19

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.89/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.32/5.00

Class Size: 24

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.57/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.48/5.00

Class Size (Section 1): 41

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.92/5.00

Overall Course Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.69/5.00

Class Size (Section 2): 35

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.85/5.00

Overall Course Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.45/5.00
Term: Spring, 2002

Class Size (Section 1): 38

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.5/5.0

Overall Course Rating (Section 1): Mean = 4.6/5.0

Class Size (Section 2): 43

Overall Instructor Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.7/5.0

Overall Course Rating (Section 2): Mean = 4.5/5.0
Term: Fall, 2003

Class Size: 40

Overall Instructor Rating: Mean = 4.83/5.00

Overall Course Rating: Mean = 4.35/5.00

5. 
   BUAD 490, Directed Research: I supervised a large number of individual undergraduates at USC in directed reading courses aimed at learning and applying advanced statistical techniques to business projects. Often these reading courses have been in conjunction with a senior honors thesis.
   

1. 
   Statistics 116: Theory of Probability: I taught this course (as the instructor of record) in the summer of 1996. This is the statistics department's introductory probability course. The lectures were broadcast live via the Stanford Instructional Television Network to companies with Stanford affiliations. Full responsibility for a course was unusual for a graduate student in the Stanford Department of Statistics.
   

2. 
   Stanford University Department of Statistics Seminar Course: I was the founder and teacher of this inaugural course on how to be a good teacher and course assistant, 1997-1998. This seminar was required for all first year Ph.D. students and became a prerequisite for candidacy.
   

3. 
   Science, Mathematics and Engineering Core: I was an inaugural TA in 1996 and 1997 for this program which was designed to teach broad principles of science in an exciting and applicable fashion to non-science majors. My responsibilities included fundamental participation in course design and choice of materials, construction of assignments, examinations and paper topics, running laboratory sessions and discussions.
   

4. 
   Department of Statistics Courses: I was a course assistant at Stanford from 1995-1998 and served as head TA for many of the department's offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
   

Unless otherwise indicated, students are in the Department of Biostatistics

1. 
   Jonathan Drury
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Oral Exam December, 2010; graduation summer 2014.

2. 
   Kathryn Peiman
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Oral Exam August, 2011

3. 
   Lu Wang
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Oral Exam March, 2012

4. 
   Matthew Beymer
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams

Principal Advisor: Linda Bourke

5. 
   Dat Nguyen
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Oral Proposal Defense May, 2013; Final Defense Scheduled May, 2014.

6. 
   Rachel Chock
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Passed Oral Proposal Defense, April, 2013

7. 
   Heidi Fischer
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Passed Oral Proposal Defense, April, 2013

8. 
   Claire Hanmi Kim
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Passed Oral Proposal Defense June, 2013

9. 
   Amity Zimmer-Faust
   

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Oral Exam Passed September, 2013

10. 
    Joy Toyama
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Oral Proposal Defense passed November, 2013

Primary Advisor: Cristina Ramirez

11. 
    Shemra Rizzo
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Oral Proposal Defense passed March 2014

Primary Advisor: Robert Weiss

12. 
    Christopher Ching
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams

13. 
    Rachel Jonas
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Oral Proposal Defense passed September, 2014

Primary Advisor: Carrie Bearden

14. 
    Katherine McNamara
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exams; Oral Proposal Defense Passed May 2014

15. 
    John Dinkler
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exam; Oral Proposal Defense planned Fall 2014

16. 
    Priya Bhagwat
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Preparing for Qualifying Exam

Primary Advisor: Pamina Gorbach

17. 
    Anna Liza Antonio
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exam; Oral Proposal Defense planned Fall 2014

Primary Advisor: Kate Crespi

18. 
    Jason Estes
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exam; Oral Proposal Defense planned Fall 2014

Primary Advisor: Damla Senturk

19. 
    Hilary Aralis
    

Role: Committee Member

Status: Passed Comprehensive Exam; Oral Proposal Defense planned Winter 2014

20. 
    Roger Shih
    

Role: MPH Report Advisor

Status: Second Year Student; Graduation Anticipated Spring, 2015

21. 
    Alex Klomhous
    

Role: Academic Advisor

Status: Passed Doctoral Screening Exam

22. 
    Alec Chan-Golston
    

Role: Academic Advisor

Status: Passed Doctoral Screening Exam

23. 
    Scott Friedlander
    

Role: Academic Advisor

Status: Second Year Student; Graduation Anticipated Spring, 2015

24. 
    Tara Heitzman
    

Role: Academic Advisor

Status: First Year Student

25. 
    Darwin Uy
    

Role: Academic Advisor

Status: First Year Student.

26. 
    Fong Liu
    

Role: Committee Member

1. 
   Tommi Gaines (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Dr.Ph. (March, 2008) Current: UCLA Postdoc
   
2. 
   Lida Jennings (External Committee Member), Education, Ed.D. (Spetember, 2008) Current: Teach for America; Past: RAND Graduate School of Education
   
3. 
   Lei Qian (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (June, 2009) Current: Kaiser Permanente
   
4. 
   Vivian Shih (Academic and MS Report Advisor), Biostatistics M.S. (September, 2008) Current: UCLA Biostatistics Doctoral Program
   
5. 
   Ying Zhou (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (June, 2010) Current: Statistician, Amgen
   
6. 
   Cory Zigler (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (June, 2010) Current: Harvard Biostatistics Postdoc
   
7. 
   Lily Altstein (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (June, 2010) Current: Senior Statistician, Novartis
   
8. 
   Jessica Miller (Committee Member), Epidemiology, Ph.D. (February, 2011); Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (Melbourne, Australia)
   
9. 
   Leanne Streja (Committee Co-Chair), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (March/June 2011) Current: City of Hope
   
10. 
    Soeun Kim (Committee Co-Chair), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (August 2011); Current: Assistant Professor, UT Houston
    
11. 
    Trina Patel (Committee Member), Biostatistics), Dr.Ph. (May, 2012); Current: Senior Biostatistician, Edwards Lifesciences.
    
12. 
    Elani Streja (Committee Member), Epidemiology, Ph.D. (May 2012); Current: Research Associate, LA Biomedical Research Institute, Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research & Epidemiology
    
13. 
    Laurie Brenner (Committee Member), Psychology, Ph.D. (June, 2012); Current: Research Fellow, Harvard University
    
14. 
    Ren He (Committee Member), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (August, 2012 ): Los Angeles Capital Management and Equity Research
    
15. 
    Cathy Lee (Masters Report Supervisor), Biostatistics M.S. (September 2012) Current: Harvard Biostatistics Doctoral Program. Past: Senior Statistician, UCLA Alzheimers Disease Research Center; Faculty, Bard High School Early College Program.
    
16. 
    16. Tyler Moore (Committee Member), Psychology, Ph.D. (Winter 2013); Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.
    
17. 
    Vivian Shih (Committee Chair), Biostatistics, Dr.Ph. (May, 2013) Current: Senior Statistician at Novartis. Thesis Topic: Variable Selection in Psychiatric Studies
    
18. 
    Airek Matthews (Committee Member), Environmental Health Sciences, Ph.D. (June, 2013)
    
19. 
    Victor Lee (Academic and MS Report Advisor), Biostatistics, M.S. (December, 2013)
    
20. 
    Chiayang Hsu (Committee Member), Biostatistics. M.P.H. (May, 2014)
    
21. 
    Brian Calimlim (Committee Chair), Biostatistics, Dr.Ph. (September, 2013) Current: Health Economist, ICON. Thesis Topic: Applications of Functional Data Analysis to Bipolar Disorder
    
22. 
    Qiaolin Chen (Committee Co-Chair), Biostatistics, Ph.D. (December, 2013) Current: Senior Statistician, Novartis. Thesis Topic: Models for Hierarchical Multivariate Outcomes with Applications to Psychiatry
    

1. 
   Victor Gastenaga, Applied Economics, Ph.D. (1999)
   
2. 
   David Hsia, Applied Economics, Ph.D. (1999)
   
3. 
   Tingting Ge, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, M.S. (2005)
   
4. 
   Danielle Zammit, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Ph.D. (2007)
   
5. 
   Steven Cen, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Ph.D. (2007)
   
6. 
   Nuoo (Jassy) Molitor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine (2007)
   

1. 
   Ellen Woo (Postdoctoral fellow, UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center),
   
2. 
   Debika Bhattacharya (Clinical instructor in the Division of Infectious Diseases),
   
3. 
   Jesse Clark (Postdoctoral fellow, Infectious Diseases),
   
4. 
   Olusola Ajilore (Postdoctoral fellow/clinical instructor, Department of Psychiatry),
   
5. 
   Matthew Wright (Postdoctoral fellow, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior), Award received
   
6. 
   Tara Peris (Postdoctoral fellow, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior). K-Award received
   
7. 
   Risa Hoffman (Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases and Program in Global Health, Burroughs-Wellcome Fellowship)
   
8. 
   Eraka Bath (Assistant Professor In Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Application Submitted)
   
9. 
   Ted Hutman (Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Application Approved)
   
10. 
    Shafali Jeste (Assistant Professor In Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Award received)
    
11. 
    April Thames (Neuropsychology Fellow, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; UCLA Center for AIDS Research Fellowship received.)
    
12. 
    Lindsey Sterling (Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Application Submitted)
    
13. 
    Jen Cowen (PhD Student, Psychology)
    
14. 
    Maria Jalbrzowski (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, F32 Proposal submitted)
    
15. 
    Nathalie Vizueta (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry, K-award proposal submitted)
    
16. 
    Angie Morales (PhD student, Psychiatry, NRSA Fellowship submitted)
    
17. 
    Milky Kohno (PhD student, Psychiatry, NRSA Fellowship submitted)
    
18. 
    Justin Miller (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry, assisted with F32 proposal)
    
19. 
    Peter Bachman (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, statistical consulting on K23, proposal submitted)
    
20. 
    George Slavich (Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, K-08 award mentor, proposal submitted)
    
21. 
    Rachel Jonas (Ph.D. student, Neuroscience, NRSA Fellowship proposal received, 2014)
    
22. 
    Alissa Ellis (Postdoctoral fellow, Psychiatry, K-Award application statistical mentor, proposal in process)
    
23. 
    Supervised doctoral students in Graduate Student Researcher positions and consulting projects, providing them with valuable real-world consulting experience
    

• 
  Vivian Shih (SIStat GSR)
  
• 
  Brian Calimilim (SIStat GSR)
  
• 
  Qiaolin Chen (SIStat GSR, Dissertation Year Fellowship (approved for 2013-2014))
  
• 
  Wendy Shih (SIStat GSR)
  
• 
  Lu Wang (Supervising HIV/AIDS consulting project with Jamieson Lab under the CFAR umbrella)
  
• 
  Matthew Beymer (CHS doctoral student; supervising HIV risk modeling independent research project)
  
• 
  Andrew Siroka (Health Services doctoral student; Graduate Division Graduate Mentorship proposal to analyze NGO data on mobile clinic data from FIJI accepted for Summer 2013 and Academic Year 2013-2014)
  
• 
  Shemra Rizzo (SIStat GSR from fall, 2013)
  

1996 “Medical Applications of Cluster Analysis,” Biostatistics Seminar Series, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

1997 “Choosing the Number of Clusters,” Biostatistics Seminar Series, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1997 “Medical Applications of Techniques for Clustering and Classification”, Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Berkeley.

1998 “Clustering: Medical Applications and Related Statistical Problems'', Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN.

1998 “Clustering: Medical Applications and Related Statistical Problems'', University of California, Berkeley.

1998 “Clustering: Medical Applications and Related Statistical Problems'', Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

1998 “Clustering: Medical Applications and Related Statistical Problems'', Department of Statistics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

1998 “Clustering: Medical Applications and Related Statistical Problems'', Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

1999 “An Application of Clustering to Public Health Policy”, Biostatistcs Seminar Series, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2000 “An Introduction to CART and Cluster Analysis for Observational Data”, Second Annual Seminar In Data Analytic Methods for Observational Studies, Merck \& Co., Westpoint, PA.

2001 “Clustering Sparse Functional Data”, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2001 “Clustering Sparsely Sampled Functional Data”, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles.

2003 “Clustering Sparsely Sampled Functional Data”, Department of Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.

2004 “Cluster-analytic Health State Modeling for Clinical Trials Data”, Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles

2004 “Applications of Clustering to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data”, Department of Statistics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

2005 “Applications of Clustering to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data”, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

2005 “Cluster-analytic Health State Modeling for Clinical Trials Data”, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2006 “Cluster Analytic Health State Modeling for Longitudinal Data”, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

2006 “Cluster Analytic Health State Modeling for Longitudinal Data”, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

2006 “Clustering Functional Data: Methods and Applications”, Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles.

2006 “Clustering Functional Data: Methods and Applications”, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.

2007 “Interpretable Methods in Functional Data Analysis”, with G.M. James, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

2007 “Cluster-Analytic Health State Modeling for Clinical Trials”, Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles.

2007 “Clustering Functional Data: Methods and Applications”, Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles.

2010 “Clustering Functional Data: Methods and Applications”, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside

2011 “Sparse Functional Data with an Irregular Cyclical Component: An Application to Psychiatric Data”, the RAND Corporationn, Santa Monica, CA.

2012 “Sparse Functional Data with an Irregular Cyclical Component: An Application to Psychiatric Data”, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2013 “Sparse Functional Data with an Irregular Cyclical Component: An Application to Psychiatric Data”, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:

Includes Short Courses and Panel Discussions. Starred entries are presentations given by Dr. Sugar.

1. 
   Sugar, C.A.*, Lenert, L.A., Olshen, R.A., An Application of Cluster Analysis to Medical Decision Making: Forming Prototypical Health States, Society for Medical Decision Making, Toronto, Canada, September, 1996.
   
2. 
   Sugar, C.A.*, “Medical Applications of Cluster Analysis”, Invited Talk at the workshop Jumps, Bumps and Clustering preceding the Conference on the Interface, Houston, Texas, May, 1997.
   
3. 
   Sugar, C.A.* and Olshen, R.A.*, “Clustering and the Formation of Health States”, Invited Short Course at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Reno, Nevada, October, 1999.
   
4. 
   Sugar, C.A.*, Invited Panel Discussant on Health State Modeling, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Washington D.C., May, 2001
   
5. 
   Cen SY., Sugar C.A., Conti D., Stahl D., Azen S.P. Oral Presentation: Steps towards the Individualized Treatment, the Challenge and Opportunity to Computational Statistics. The 3rd World Conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Cyprus, October, 2005.
   
6. 
   Cen S.Y., Sugar C.A., Stahl D., Conti D., Langholz B., Azen S.P. Oral Presentation: STEAM Engine with a Double Supervised Machine Learning in the Approach of Individualizing the Medical Treatment. The 38th Symposium on the Interface of Statistics, Computing Science, and Applications (Massive Data Sets and Streams), Pasadena, CA, May, 2006.
   
7. 
   Cen S.Y., Sugar C.A., Langholz B., Conti D., Stahl D., Azen S.P., Steps Toward Individualized Treatment: Double Supervised Machine-Leaning Method, The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Seattle, Washibgton, August, 2006.
   
8. 
   Gifford, A.L., Bowman, C., Goetz, M.B., Chen, Y, Hoang, T., Mole, L., Slipchecnko, T., Sugar, C.A., Asch, S. for QUERI HIV/HCV Program. HIV Testing in Adults Receiving Care from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. VA HSRD National Meeting, Washington D.C. , 2007.
   
9. 
   Bowman, C., Slipchenko, T., Chen, Y., Mole, L., Backus, L., Sugar, C.A., Gifford, A. Poster Presentation. Using New Modeling Approaches to Casefinding: HIV in the VHA. 2nd Treatment & Management of HIV in the US Conference, Dallas, Texas, May, 2007.
   
10. 
    Bowman C, Slipchenko T, Chen Y, Mole L, Backus L, Sugar C.A., Gifford A. Poster Presentation: Using New Modeling Approaches to Casefinding: HIV in the VHA. Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, Forida, June, 2007.
    
11. 
    Slipchenko, T., Bowman, C., Hen, Y., Sugar, C.A., Gifford, A. Oral Presentation: Case Study: Development of an HIV Casefinding Algorithm with SAS(R) Enterprise Miner(TM). Western Users of SAS 15th Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, October, 2007.
    
12. 
    Zammit, D.C., Hay, J.W., Globe, D.R., Sugar, C.A., Gauderman, J.W. Poster Presentation: Framework for the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Mammography Screening for Breast Cancer. ISPOR 10th Annual European Congress, Dublin, Ireland, October, 2007.
    
13. 
    Zammit, D.C., Hay, J.W., Globe, D.R., Sugar, C.A., Gauderman, J.W. Poster Presentation: Adjusting for Trial Quality in Meta-Analysis. ISPOR 10th Annual European Congress, Dublin, Ireland, October, 2007.
    
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