Regular Members of the GDIP in Statistics are those University faculty and staff involved in teaching core Statistics courses, directing M.S. and Ph.D. students in the GIDP, and/or others who have agreed to be significantly active in the Program.

Mark S. Aldenderfer, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Professor of Anthropology.
Applied multivariate analysis; Spatial statistics;  Cluster analysis.

Jacobus J. (Kobus) Barnard, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University), Assistant Professor of Computing Science, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Machine learning; Mathematical modeling of geometric form; Multi-modal data; Statistical applications in computer vision.

Rabi N. Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Professor of Mathematics.
Markov processes; Large sample theory; Statistical shape analysis; Economic theory of growth under uncertainty.

Zhao Chen, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Associate Professor of Public Health.
Research study design; Longitudinal data analysis; Risk assessment.

Peter Leith Chesson, Ph.D. (University of Adelaide, Australia), Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Mathematical ecology; Ecological statistics; Stochastic processes; Biodiversity.

Melinda F. (Mende) Davis, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Public Health.
Latent variable modeling; Measurement of change; Item response theory; Health outcomes research.

Michael N. Evans, Ph.D (Columbia University), Associate Professor of Dendrochronology; Associate Professor of Geosciences; Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences.
Paleoclimatology; Spatiotemporal data analysis; Forward and inverse modeling.

William G. Faris, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Professor of Mathematics.
Stochastic processes; Mathematical statistics.

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Ph.D. (Ohio State University), Assistant Professor of Economics.
Spatial statistics; Causal inference; Simulation methods; Econometrics.
             
Sylvan B. Green, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Professor of Public Health; Director of Biometry, Arizona Cancer Center; Linda McCartney Breast Cancer Chair in Biometry.
Biostatistics; Epidemiologic studies; Clinical trials and prevention trials.
 
Keisuke Hirano, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Associate Professor of Economics.
Econometrics; Causal inference.
 
Alan P. Ker, Ph.D. (North Carolina State University), Professor of Agricultural Resource Economics; Professor of Economics; Head, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics.
Nonparametric regression; Empirical Bayes methods; Nonparametric kernel density estimation.

Nirav Merchant, M.S. (University of Arizona), Director of Information Technology, Arizona Research Labs.
Data Mining; Classification; Quality Control.

Walter W. Piegorsch, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Public Health; Chair, GIDP in Statistics.
Environmental statistics; Quantitative Risk Assessment; Biometry; History of statistics.
             
James Ranger-Moore, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Associate Professor of Public Health; Director, Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Simulation methods; Longitudinal analysis; Classification algorithms, Image analysis.
             
Denise J. Roe, Dr.P.H. (University of California at Los Angeles), Professor of Public Health.
Clinical trials; Epidemiological studies; Pharmacokinetics.

Moshe Shaked, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), Professor of Mathematics.
Reliability theory; Stochastic modeling; Stochastic orders.

Duane L. Sherrill, Ph.D. (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), 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.

Robert J. Steidl, Ph.D. (Oregon State University), Associate Professor of Natural Resources. 
Quantitative ecology; Dynamics of animal populations; Conservation biology.

Michael Tabor, Ph.D. (Imperial College), Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Physics; Professor of Mathematics; Head, GIDP in Applied Mathematics.
Nonlinear growth dynamics; Chaotic dynamical systems; Biomechanical models; Biomathematics.

Bruce Walsh, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Adjunct Professor of Plant Science; Adjunct Professor of Animal Science; Adjunct Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Adjunct Professor of Public Health.
Biostatistics; Statistical genetics/genomics; Mixed models; Bayesian analysis; Resampling and MCMC methods.

Joseph C. Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Stochastic processes; Limit theorems; Statistical applications in the life sciences.

Affiliate Members of the GDIP 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. (Harvard University), Professor of Sociology.
Statistical models for social network analysis; Log-linear models; Log-multiplicative models for contingency tables.

John J. Cheslock, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Assistant Professor of Higher Education.
Applied econometrics; Analysis of panel data.
             
Andrew C. Comrie, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Professor of Geography & Regional Development; Associate Vice President for Research; Dean of the Graduate College and Director of Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs.
Statistics of climate data; Data reduction; Spatial modeling.

James T. (Jake) Harwood, Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Barbara), Professor of Communication.
Applied statistics in the social sciences; Hypothesis testing; Moderator and mediator effects.

Robert S. Maier, Ph.D. (Rutgers University), Professor of Mathematics.
Applied probability; Mathematical statistics; Limit laws and large deviation theory; Bioinformatics.

Joanna Masel, D.Phil. (Oxford University), Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Markov chains; Bayesian learning models; Biometry.

Chris Segrin, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology; Professor of Family Studies; Head, Department of Communication.
Meta-analysis; Longitudinal data analysis; Regression analysis; Dyadic data analysis.