Faculty
The School of Statistics has an internationally distinguished faculty, including many elected fellows of the major statistical organizations such as the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Statistical Institute. Also, many of our faculty members are or have been editors or associate editors of major journals. Additionally, several have been nominated for, or are the recipients of, awards for excellence in teaching.
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Sara Algeri Assistant Professor |
362 Ford Hall 612-625-4005 salgeri@umn.edu |
Statistical inference, computational statistics, astrostatistics |
| Snigdhansu Chatterjee Professor Director of the Institute in Research in Statistics |
355 Ford Hall 612-625-6505 chatt019@umn.edu |
Statistical foundations of data science, geometry of high dimensional data, Bayesian statistics, applications of statistics, machine learning to several domains |
| Jie Ding Assistant Professor |
366 Ford Hall dingj@umn.edu |
Time series, model selection, inference methodology, applications in audio/video processing, finance |
| Charles Doss Associate Professor |
389 Ford Hall 612-625-5819 cdoss@umn.edu |
Nonparametric estimation and inference |
| Charles Geyer Professor |
356 Ford Hall 612-625-8511 geyer@umn.edu |
Constrained maximum likelihood, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo likelihood, spatial statistics |
| Birgit Grund Professor |
381 Ford Hall 612-624-8076 birgit@umn.edu |
Design and analysis of clinical trials, research in HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19 |
| Nathaniel Helwig Associate Professor |
383 Ford Hall 612-625-7515 helwig@umn.edu |
Computational statistics, smoothing splines, multimode/tensor analysis, nonparametric methods, neuroimaging, psychometrics |
| Tiefeng Jiang Professor |
365 Ford Hall 612-624-3850 jiang040@umn.edu |
Random matrices, random graphs, probability, symmetric polynomials, high-dimensional statisitcs, connections to physics and computer science |
| Galin Jones Professor Director of the School of Statistics |
313A Ford Hall 612-624-8862 galin@umn.edu |
Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology, decison theory, biological and environmental applications |
| Xiaoou Li Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies |
347 Ford Hall 612-625-1816 lixx1766@umn.edu |
Sequential analysis and adaptive design, latent variable models, graphical models, psychometrics |
|
Lan Liu |
372 Ford Hall 612-625-6636 liux3771@umn.edu |
Causal inference, missing data analysis, clinical trials, doubly robust inference, Bayesian analysis, surrogate outcomes, measurement error, mediation analysis, social network, personalized medicine, unmeasured confounder, statistical consulting |
| Gary W. Oehlert Professor |
320 Ford Hall 612-625-1557 gary@umn.edu |
Statistical computing, environmental statistics, design of experiments |
| Qian Qin Assistant Professor |
357 Ford Hall qqin@umn.edu |
Markov chain Monte Carlo, convergence rates of Markov chains |
| Adam Rothman Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
367 Ford Hall 612-626-0346 arothman@umn.edu |
Multivariate analysis and statistical computing in high dimensions |
| Xiaotong Shen Professor |
384 Ford Hall 612-624-7098 xshen@umn.edu |
Machine learning and data science, inference and prediction, statistical applications in engineering and health science |
| Lu Yang Assistant Professor |
385 Ford Hall luyang@umn.edu |
Multivariate analysis, regression model diagnostics, nonparametric methods, insurance analytics |
| Yuhong Yang Professor |
376 Ford Hall 612-626-8337 yangx374@umn.edu |
Model selection and model combining, high-dimensional data analysis, multi-armed bandits with covariates, forcast combinations, statistics in personalized medicine |
| Hui Zou Professor |
312 Ford Hall 612-625-8355 zouxx019@umn.edu |
Statistical methodology and theory |
Teaching Specialists
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Kazeem Adepoju Lecturer |
465 Ford Hall |
| Georgia (Zhuozhi) Huang Teaching Specialist |
453 Ford Hall
612-625-8730
|
| Barbara Kuzmak Senior Lecturer |
485 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 bkuzmak@umn.edu |
|
Eugenie Ngandjeu Nya |
475 Ford Hall ennya@umn.edu |
| Yuyoung Park Teaching Specialist |
487 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 parky@umn.edu |
Visiting Faculty and Scholars
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Liliana Forzani Professor Facultad de Ingenier\'ia Qu\'imica, UNL. Researcher of CONICET. |
388 Ford Hall Liliana.Forzani@gmail.com |
| Joerg Polzehl | 368 Ford Hall |
| Jing Zhou | 388 Ford Hall jing.zhou@kuleuven.be |
Emeriti
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Christopher Bingham Professor Emeritus |
kb@umn.edu |
| R. Dennis Cook Professor Emeritus |
484 Ford Hall 612-625-7732 rdcook@umn.edu |
| Morris L. Eaton Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall 612-625-7515 eaton@stat.umn.edu |
| Douglas M. Hawkins Professor Emeritus |
dhawkins@umn.edu |
| Glen Meeden Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall 612-625-8321 gmeeden@umn.edu |
| William Sudderth Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall 612-625-2801 sudde001@umn.edu |
| Sanford Weisberg Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall 612-625-8355 sandy@umn.edu |