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Major Research Interests of Faculty

Statistics Department faculty and their major research interests are listed below. For those faculty holding joint appointments, the programs (in addition to Statistics) in which they hold their joint appointment are also listed. Links to individual faculty pages are available by referring to the Faculty Directory.

Adin-Cristian Andrei
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Nonparametric and semiparametric survival analysis, recurrent/successive events, clinical trials, group sequential monitoring, quality-of-life adjustments in survival analysis, multiple testing problems
Cecile Ane
Statistical Inference in Phylogenetics, Computational Biology
Doug Bates
Nonlinear Regression, Statistical Computing
George Box
Emeritus, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Department of Mathematics, and Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Modern Quality Technology, Design of Experiments, Time Series Data Analysis, Statistical Inference
Karl Broman
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Applied statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology
Rick Chappell
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Missing Data, Allometry
Moo Chung
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Computational Neuro-Anatomy, Random Fields, Image Analysis, Functional Data Analysis
Murray Clayton
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences-Plant Pathology, Biometry Program
Sequential Decision Theory, Spatial Methods, Foundations of Statistical Inference, Applications of Statistics to Biology
David DeMets
Chair, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Sequential Analysis
Xinwei Deng
Visiting
Machine learning and data mining, Statistical approaches to quantification in Nanotechnology, Statistical modeling with applications in financial services, Sequential design and its applications
Kjell Doksum
Nonparametric Regression, Biostatistics
Norman Draper
Emeritus
Experimental Design, Linear Models, Nonlinear Estimation
Ronald Gangnon
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Spatial Statistics, Environmental Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology
Bernard Harris
Emeritus
Probability, Combinatorics, Reliability, Statistical Decision Theory
Richard Johnson
Life Testing and Reliability, Statistical Inference, Large Sample Theory, Applied Multivariate Analysis
Sunduz Keles
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Computational biology, Statistical inference with censored data, Statistical computing
Christina Kendziorski
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Development and application of statistical methods for gene mapping and gene expression array studies
KyungMann Kim
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Sequential methods, clinical trials methodology, categorical data analysis, survival analysis, repeated measures analysis, applications in cancer research and ophthalmology
Tom Kurtz
Mathematics Department
Stochastic Processes
Bret Larget
Botany Department
Statistical Genomics, Phylogenetic Inference
Mary Lindstrom
Affiliate, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Functional data analysis, semiparametric and nonlinear random effects models, free knot spline regression, analysis of clustered data, statistical computing.
Wei-Yin Loh
Statistical Inference, Bootstrap Theory and Methodology, Tree Structured Techniques
Robert Miller
Emeritus, Business School and Center for Quality & Productivity Improvement
Bayesian Inference, Time Series, Management Applications, Surveys
Michael Newton
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department
Monte Carlo Methods for Inference, Modeling, Biological Applications
Erik Nordheim
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences-Forestry
Biological Statistics, Design and Analysis, Applied Linear Models
Zhiguang (Peter) Qian
Design, Modeling and Analysis of Experiments, Optimization under Uncertainty, Latent Variable Modeling, and Statistics in Engineering and Services
Jun Shao
Statistics Inference, Asymptotic Theory, Resampling Methods, Linear & Nonlinear Models, Model Selection, Sample Survey
Kam Wah Tsui
Decision Theory, Survey Sampling, Statistical Inference
Grace Wahba
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department and Department of Computer Sciences.
Multivariate Function Estimation, Model Building with Splines, Inverse Problems, Applications in Meteorology, Biostatistics, Machine Learning
Sijian Wang
Yazhen Wang
Robert Wardrop
Emeritus
Sequential Methods, Statistical Education, Statistics in Sports
Brian Yandell
College of Agricultural & Life Sciences-Horticulture
Nonparametrics, Biometry, Gene Mapping, Generalized Linear Models, Research Ethics
Chunming Zhang
Nonparametric Inference, Asymptotic Theory, Statistical Methods in Finance, Simulation Techniques
Zhengjun Zhang
Extreme Value Theory, Time Series Analysis, Copula Dependence Modeling, Risk Analysis, Medical Statistics, Environmental Statistics, Internet Traffic Modeling
Jun Zhu
On Leave
Spatial Statistics, Environmental Statistics, Asymptotic Theory, Resampling Methods

See Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics for additional Biostatistics Faculty Research Interests.