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Stats Faculty Regular

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

Melinda Davis

Research Assistant Professor
Latent variable modeling; Measurement of change; Item response theory; Health outcomes research; Statistical consulting.

Zhao Chen

Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research study design; Longitudinal data analysis; Risk assessment.

Henry Scharf

Member of Executive Committee
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
New methodology for spatio-temporal applications in ecology and environmental sciences. Approximate statistical inference for large data sets and/or complex models. My students and I make up the Toyon Statistical Lab (https://toyonstatlab.github.io/).

Kobus Barnard

Professor, School of Mind, Brain and Behavior
Machine learning; Mathematical modeling of geometric form; Multi-modal data; Statistical applications in computer vision.