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Stats Faculty Regular

Nicole Kersting

Professor, Educational Psychology, College of Education
Measurement and educational assessment; Item response and generalizability theory; Value-added models; Random effects models.

Jason Pacheco

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making

Neng Fan

Associate Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Methodologies in Optimization; Applied Operations Research; Data Mining and Machine Learning

Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Assistant Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Methodologies in Optimization: Saddle point problems, Distributed Optimization, Bilevel Optimization.Applications: Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Ryan Gutenkunst

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Computational biology, with focus on inferring history and natural selection from population genomic data

Lifeng Lin

Member of Executive Committee
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
High dimensional data; Machine learning; Change point detection
Dr. 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 probs