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Lingling An
Member of Executive Committee
Associate Professor, Biosystems Engineering
Statistical genomics/metagenomics; Single cell data analysis; Data mining and machine learning
Satheesh Aradhyula
Associate Professor Agricultural-Resource Economics
Production Economics, Econometrics, Agricultural Policy
Kobus Barnard
Professor, School of Mind, Brain and Behavior
Machine learning; Mathematical modeling of geometric form; Multi-modal data; Statistical applications in computer vision.
Edward Bedrick
Member of Executive Committee
Professor, Public Health
Analysis of observational data; Bayesian methods; Generalized linear and mixed models
Rabindra Bhattacharya
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Markov processes; Large sample theory; Statistical shape analysis; Economic theory of growth under uncertainty.
Dean Billheimer
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Measurement and normalization, Quantitative proteomics, Statistical methods for compositional data.
Zhao Chen
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research study design; Longitudinal data analysis; Risk assessment.
Jianqiang Cheng
Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Stochastic Programming, Semi-definite programming, as well as their applications
Melinda Davis
Research Assistant Professor
Latent variable modeling; Measurement of change; Item response theory; Health outcomes research; Statistical consulting.
Hongxu Ding
Assistant Professor, Translational Pharmacogenomics
Single-cell analysis, nanopore sequencing. His lab develops computational biology approaches to interpret single-cell omics profiles and nanopore sequencing readouts.
Neng Fan
Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Methodologies in Optimization; Applied Operations Research; Data Mining and Machine Learning
Ryan Gutenkunst
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Computational biology, with focus on inferring history and natural selection from population genomic data and on understanding the function and evolution of complex biomolecular networks
Ning Hao
Member of Executive Committee
Associate Professor, Mathematics
High dimensional data; Machine learning; Change point detection
Jake Harwood
Professor of Communications
Applied statistics in the social sciences; Hypothesis testing; Moderator and mediator effects.
Chiu-Hsieh Paul Hsu
Professor, College of Public Health
Survival analysis; Missing data; Statistical modeling.
Chengcheng Hu
Professor, College of Public Health
High-dimensional data; Survival analysis; Longitudinal data; Missing data; Measurement error.
Bonnie Hurwitz
Associate Professor Biosystems Engineering
Systems Biology; Functional Metagenomics; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology
Afrooz Jalilzadeh
Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering
Research is focused on the design, analysis, and implementation of stochastic approximation methods for solving convex optimization and stochastic variational inequality problems with applications in machine learning, game theory, and power systems.
Nicole Kersting
Associate Professor, College of Education
Measurement and educational assessment; Item response and generalizability theory; Value-added models; Random effects models.
Haiquan Li
Assistant Professor Medicine
Biomedical big data science, Translational bioinformatics, bioinformatics, clinical informatics.
Jingjing Liang
Assistant Research Professor, R Ken Coit College of Pharmacy
Statistical genetics and genomics, including computational methods for analyzing large-scale sequencing data, rare variant association analysis, genomics-driven drug target discovery and precision medicine
Kevin Lin
Associate Professor Mathematics
Stochastic nonlinear phenomena in biology and physics, especially problems from computational neuroscience and nonequilibrium statistical physics; Monte Carlo algorithms; numerical methods for stochastic differential equations; scientific computing.
Lifeng Lin
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Lin has worked extensively on statistical methods for meta-analysis, network meta-analysis of multiple-treatment comparisons, publication bias, and Bayesian methods. He is also interested in the applications of statistical methods to real-world proble
Jian Liu
Associate Professor, Systems & Industrial Engineering
Dr Liu's research is in the integration of manufacturing engineering knowledge, control theory and advanced statistics for product quality and productivity improvement. His recent research focuses on system prognostic/diagnostic modeling and analysis and
Yiwen Liu
Assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dimension reduction and variable selection, big data analytics, data integration
Clayton Morrison
Professor, School of Information
Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Activity Recognition and Understanding, Automated Planning, Knowledge Representation, Computational Cognitive Science
Selena Niu
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Nonparametric statistics; Semiparametric modeling; Statistical genetics.
Jason Pacheco
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
Walter Piegorsch
Professor, Mathematics
Data analytics; Genomics; Environmental statistics; Risk assessment; History of statistics.
Denise Roe
Professor, Public Health
Biostatistics. Clinical trials; Epidemiological studies; Pharmacokinetics.
Sunder Sethuraman
Professor, Mathematics
Probability and stochastic processes. Bayesian stick-breaking and applications. Models in statistical physics.
Robert Steidl
Professor of Natural Resources
Quantitative ecology; Dynamics of animal populations; Conservation biology.
Xiaoxiao Sun
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Medical Imaging, Nonparamatric Modelling, Computational Biology
Xueying Tang
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
High dimensional Bayesian statistics, latent variable models and their application in Education and Psychology.
Bruce Walsh
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biostatistics; Statistical genetics/genomics; Mixed models; Bayesian analysis; Resampling and MCMC methods.
Joseph Watkins
Vice-Chair Executive Committee
Professor, Mathematics
Limit theorems; Statistical applications in the life sciences.
Erfan Yazdandost Hamedani
Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Methodologies in Optimization: Saddle point problems, Distributed Optimization, Bilevel Optimization.Applications: Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence
Chicheng Zhang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Machine Learning, learning theory.
Hao (Helen) Zhang
Chair, Statistics GIDP
Professor, Mathematics
Nonparametric smoothing; Model selection; Data Mining; Statistical applications in biosciences and biomedicine.
Qiang Zhou
Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Industrial data analytics, System informatics and applied statistics, design analysis of computer experiments, system fault management and prognostics, statistical quality control
Affiliate Members
Affiliate Members of the GIDP in Statistics are those with a general interest in statistical issues who wish to be fully informed of the Program’s operation, and who wish to engage in a limited subset of Program activities. Affiliate members often rotate to Regular status at pertinent intervals, and vice versa.
- Ronald L. Breiger, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology. Statistical models for social network analysis; Log-linear models; Log-multiplicative models for contingency tables.
- Emily A. Butler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences. Multivariate time-series analysis; Multilevel modeling; Dyadic models; Social-relations modeling.
- Robert Canales, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Public Health (Stanford University) Data mining, machine learning, analysis of complex systems; Application of Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic processes in risk analysis and environmental exposure assessment; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty and variability quantification
- Andrew C. Comrie, Ph.D. Professor of Geography & Regional Development; Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Statistics of climate data; Data reduction; Spatial modeling.
- Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ph.D. Professor of Economics. Structural econometric modeling; Applied Bayesian econometrics; Estimation of dynamic models.
- Hidehiko Ichimura, Professor of Economics. His research focuses on uses of influence function of estimators for a finite dimensional parameter in semiparametric models. In addition, he is working on constructing an econometric framework to link structural life-cycle models to the national transfer accounts via an over-lapping generations model.
- Thomas G. Kennedy, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Physics. Monte Carlo simulations; Random walks.
- Derek M. Lemoine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics. Decision theory; Bayesian methods; Model epistemology; Complex systems; Real options.
- Jian Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering. Engineering statistics; Statistical quality and reliability engineering; Applied data mining.
- Robert S. Maier, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Physics. Applied probability; Mathematical statistics; Limit laws and large deviation theory; Bioinformatics.
- Joanna Monti-Masel, D.Phil. Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Stochastic processes; Bayesian learning models; Theoretical population genetics; Stochasticity in gene expression.
- David M. Meko, Ph.D. Associate Research Professor of Dendrochronology. Spectral analysis; ARMA modeling; Time series filtering; Regression.
- James L. Powell, Professor of Economics, Eller College of Management. His current research focus is on limited dependent variables, endogenous regressors and panel data.
- Chris Segrin, Ph.D. Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology; Professor of Family Studies; Head, Department of Communication. Meta-analysis; Longitudinal data analysis; Regression analysis; Dyadic data analysis.
- Duane L. Sherrill, Ph.D. Professor of Public Health; Associate Dean of Research, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Longitudinal analyses; Respiratory disease assessment; Applied data analyses; Biometry.
- Yotam Shmargad, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the School of Information Resources and Library Science; Impacts of social media on information and market spread in user networks.
- Subbian Vignesh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering; Software Engineering, Biomedical Data Science and Informatics, Ethics and Professional and Social Responsibility
- Tiemen Woutersen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics. Econometrics; Causal inference; Duration models; Inferences for partially identified parameters.