Stats Faculty Regular

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.

Nicole Kersting

Associate Professor, College of Education
Measurement and educational assessment; Item response and generalizability theory; Value-added models; Random effects models.

Jason Pacheco

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making

Neng Fan

Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Methodologies in Optimization; Applied Operations Research; Data Mining and Machine Learning

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

Ryan Gutenkunst

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Computational biology, with focus on inferring history and natural selection from population genomic data