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 Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies |
362 Ford Hall 612-625-4005 [email protected] |
Statistical inference, computational statistics, astrostatistics |
| Jie Ding Associate Professor |
366 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Time series, model selection, inference methodology, applications in audio/video processing, finance |
| Charles Doss Associate Professor |
389 Ford Hall 612-625-5819 [email protected] |
Nonparametric estimation and inference |
| Charles Geyer Professor |
356 Ford Hall 612-625-8511 [email protected] |
Constrained maximum likelihood, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo likelihood, spatial statistics |
| Birgit Grund Professor |
381 Ford Hall 612-624-8076 [email protected] |
Design and analysis of clinical trials, research in HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19 |
| Nathaniel Helwig Associate Professor |
383 Ford Hall 612-625-7515 [email protected] |
Computational statistics, smoothing splines, multimode/tensor analysis, nonparametric methods, neuroimaging, psychometrics |
| Galin Jones Professor Director of the School of Statistics |
313A Ford Hall [email protected] |
Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology, decison theory, biological and environmental applications |
| Tianxi Li Assistant Professor |
376 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Statistical network analysis, statistical machine learning |
| Xiaoou Li Associate Professor |
347 Ford Hall 612-625-1816 [email protected] |
Sequential analysis and adaptive design, latent variable models, graphical models, psychometrics |
| Aaron Molstad Assistant Professor |
384 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Statistical genetics and genomics, multivariate analysis, numerical optimization |
| Qian Qin Assistant Professor |
357 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Markov chain Monte Carlo, convergence rates of Markov chains |
| Adam Rothman Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
367 Ford Hall 612-626-0346 [email protected] |
Multivariate analysis and statistical computing in high dimensions |
| Xiaotong Shen Professor |
384 Ford Hall 612-624-7098 [email protected] |
Machine learning and data science, inference and prediction, statistical applications in engineering and health science |
| Lu Yang Assistant Professor Director of the Lynn Y. S. Lin Consulting Center |
385 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Multivariate analysis, regression model diagnostics, nonparametric methods, insurance analytics |
| Hui Zou Professor |
312 Ford Hall 612-625-8355 [email protected] |
Statistical methodology and theory |
Associate Faculty
| Name | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| Kazeem Adepoju Senior Lecturer |
465 Ford Hall 612-625-2858 [email protected] |
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| Georgia (Zhuozhi) Huang Teaching Specialist |
453 Ford Hall
612-625-8730
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| Barbara Kuzmak Senior Lecturer |
485 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 [email protected] |
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| Eugenie Ngandjeu Nya Teaching Specialist |
475 Ford Hall [email protected] |
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| Yuyoung Park Teaching Specialist |
487 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 [email protected] |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| Xuan Bi Associate Professor |
3-233 Carlson School of Management 612-626-7813 [email protected] |
Postdocs
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Qiuyun Zhu IRSA Faragher Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow |
368 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Visiting Faculty and Scholars
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Xin-Yu Tian | 467 Ford Hall [email protected] |
Emeriti
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Yuhong Yang Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Tiefeng Jiang Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Christopher Bingham Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| R. Dennis Cook Professor Emeritus |
484 Ford Hall [email protected] |
| Morris L. Eaton Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Douglas M. Hawkins Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| Glen Meeden Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall [email protected] |
| Gary W. Oehlert Professor Emeritus |
320 Ford Hall 612-625-1557 [email protected] |
| William Sudderth Professor Emeritus |
392 Ford Hall [email protected] |
| Sanford Weisberg Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |