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
Jie Ding Associate 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 galin@umn.edu	Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology, decison theory, biological and environmental applications
Tianxi Li Assistant Professor	376 Ford Hall tianxili@umn.edu	Statistical network analysis, statistical machine learning
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 Associate Professor Director of the Lynn Y. S. Lin Consulting Center	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
Aaron Molstad Assistant Professor	384 Ford Hall amolstad@umn.edu	Statistical genetics and genomics, multivariate analysis, numerical optimization
Qian Qin Assistant Professor	357 Ford Hall qqin@umn.edu	Markov chain Monte Carlo, convergence rates of Markov chains
Adam Rothman 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 612-625-2858 kadepoju@umn.edu
Georgia (Zhuozhi) Huang Teaching Specialist	453 Ford Hall 612-625-8730 huan1108@umn.edu
Barbara Kuzmak Senior Lecturer	485 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 bkuzmak@umn.edu
Eugenie Ngandjeu Nya Teaching Specialist	475 Ford Hall ennya@umn.edu
Yuyoung Park Teaching Specialist	487 Ford Hall 612-625-4897 parky@umn.edu

Postdocs

Name	Contact
Qiuyun Zhu IRSA Faragher Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow	368 Ford Hall qzhu@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 rdcook@umn.edu
Morris L. Eaton Professor Emeritus	eaton@stat.umn.edu
Douglas M. Hawkins Professor Emeritus	dhawkins@umn.edu
Glen Meeden Professor Emeritus	392 Ford Hall gmeeden@umn.edu
Gary W. Oehlert Professor Emeritus	320 Ford Hall 612-625-1557 gary@umn.edu
William Sudderth Professor Emeritus	392 Ford Hall sudde001@umn.edu
Sanford Weisberg Professor Emeritus	sandy@umn.edu