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Lingling An
Associate Professor, Biosystems EngineeringStatistical genomics/metagenomics; Single cell data analysis; Data mining and machine learning
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Satheesh Aradhyula
Associate Professor Agricultural-Resource EconomicsProduction Economics, Econometrics, Agricultural Policy
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Kobus Barnard
Professor, School of Mind, Brain and BehaviorMachine learning; Mathematical modeling of geometric form; Multi-modal data; Statistical applications in computer vision.
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Edward Bedrick
Member of Executive CommitteeProfessor, Public Health
Analysis of observational data; Bayesian methods; Generalized linear and mixed models
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Andrew Bennett
Assistant Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric SciencesResearch interests include computational hydrology, with a focus on deep learning, physically based models and hybrid differentiable models. Also scientific computing and open science.
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Rabindra Bhattacharya
Professor Emeritus, MathematicsMarkov processes; Large sample theory; Statistical shape analysis; Economic theory of growth under uncertainty.
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Dean Billheimer
Professor, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsMeasurement and normalization, Quantitative proteomics, Statistical methods for compositional data.
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Alexander Bucksch
Associate Professor - School of Plant SciencesOur research is motivated by the threads that climate change imposes on the agricultural and natural plant ecosystem. Therefore, we develop imaging and simulation approaches to understand the function of natural variation in plants
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Zhao Chen
Professor, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsResearch study design; Longitudinal data analysis; Risk assessment.
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Jianqiang Cheng
Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial EngineeringOptimization under Uncertainty, Conic Optimization, and their applications
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Michael Chertkov
Professor, Mathematics
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Melinda Davis
Research Assistant ProfessorLatent variable modeling; Measurement of change; Item response theory; Health outcomes research; Statistical consulting.
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Hongxu Ding
Assistant Professor, Translational PharmacogenomicsSingle-cell analysis, nanopore sequencing. His lab develops computational biology approaches to interpret single-cell omics profiles and nanopore sequencing readouts.
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Neng Fan
Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial EngineeringMethodologies in Optimization; Applied Operations Research; Data Mining and Machine Learning
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Yong Ge
Associate Professor of Management Information SystemsResearch Focuses: data mining, machine/deep learning, AI, recommender systems, and healthcare analytics.
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Ryan Gutenkunst
Professor, Molecular and Cellular BiologyComputational biology, with focus on inferring history and natural selection from population genomic data
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Ning Hao
Member of Executive CommitteeAssociate Professor, Mathematics
High dimensional data; Machine learning; Change point detection
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Jake Harwood
Professor of CommunicationsApplied statistics in the social sciences; Hypothesis testing; Moderator and mediator effects.
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Chiu-Hsieh Paul Hsu
Professor, College of Public HealthSurvival analysis; Missing data; Statistical modeling.
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Chengcheng Hu
Professor, College of Public HealthHigh-dimensional data; Survival analysis; Longitudinal data; Missing data; Measurement error.
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Afrooz Jalilzadeh
Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial EngineeringResearch 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.
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Nicole Kersting
Associate Professor, College of EducationMeasurement and educational assessment; Item response and generalizability theory; Value-added models; Random effects models.
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Haiquan Li
Assistant Professor MedicineBiomedical big data science, Translational bioinformatics, bioinformatics, clinical informatics.
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Jingjing Liang
Assistant Research Professor, R Ken Coit College of PharmacyStatistical genetics and genomics, including computational methods for analyzing large-scale sequencing data, rare variant association analysis, genomics-driven drug target discovery and precision medicine
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Mingyu Liang
Professor and Department Head, PhysiologyThe Liang group studies molecular systems medicine. e. The current work in our group focuses on three areas: (epi)genomics and precision medicine, regulatory RNA, and cellular metabolism, as they relate to hypertension, cardiovascular and kidney disease.
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Kevin Lin
Associate Professor MathematicsStochastic 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.
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Lifeng Lin
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsDr. 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
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Jian Liu
Associate Professor, Systems & Industrial EngineeringDr 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
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Yiwen Liu
Assistant professor of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsDimension reduction and variable selection, big data analytics, data integration
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Joanna Masel
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Samy Missoum
Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Clayton Morrison
Professor, School of InformationMachine Learning, Causal Inference, Activity Recognition and Understanding, Automated Planning, Knowledge Representation, Computational Cognitive Science
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Selena Niu
Associate Professor, MathematicsNonparametric statistics; Semiparametric modeling; Statistical genetics.
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Jason Pacheco
Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceStatistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
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Walter Piegorsch
Professor, MathematicsData analytics; Genomics; Environmental statistics; Risk assessment; History of statistics.
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Denise Roe
Professor, Public HealthBiostatistics. Clinical trials; Epidemiological studies; Pharmacokinetics.
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Liliana Salvador
Assistant Professor, Animal & Comparative Biomedical SciencesMultidisciplinary approach to study the dynamics of zoonotic infectious diseases. We develop computational, mathematical and data-driven models to understand the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases at the wildlife, livestock and human interface.
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Henry Scharf
Assistant Professor, Mathematicsspatiotemporal statistics; Bayesian statistics; Ecological applications
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Sunder Sethuraman
Professor, MathematicsProbability and stochastic processes. Bayesian stick-breaking and applications. Models in statistical physics.
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Robert Steidl
Professor of Natural ResourcesQuantitative ecology; Dynamics of animal populations; Conservation biology.
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Xiaoxiao Sun
Member of Executive CommitteeAssociate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Medical Imaging, Nonparamatric Modelling, Computational Biology
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Xueying Tang
Member of Executive CommitteeAssistant Professor, Mathematics
high dimensional Bayesian inference, latent variable models, small area estimation, psychometrics
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Gary Thompson
Department Head, Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Bruce Walsh
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyBiostatistics; Statistical genetics/genomics; Mixed models; Bayesian analysis; Resampling and MCMC methods.
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Joseph Watkins
Vice-Chair Executive CommitteeProfessor, Mathematics
Limit theorems; Statistical applications in the life sciences.
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Travis Wheeler
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science
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Erfan Yazdandost Hamedani
Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial EngineeringMethodologies in Optimization: Saddle point problems, Distributed Optimization, Bilevel Optimization.Applications: Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence
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Chicheng Zhang
Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceMachine Learning, learning theory.
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Hao (Helen) Zhang
Chair, Statistics GIDPProfessor, Mathematics
Nonparametric smoothing; Model selection; Data Mining; Statistical applications in biosciences and biomedicine.
Affiliate Faculty
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.
- 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.
- Robert S. Maier, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Physics. Applied probability; Mathematical statistics; Limit laws and large deviation theory; Bioinformatics.
- 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.