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.

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

Statistics / 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

Statistics / Plant Pathology (CALS

Sequential Decision Theory, Spatial Methods, Foundations of Statistical Inference, Applications of Statistics to Biology

Kjell Doksum

Retired

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

Bret Hanlon

Assistant Professor

Inference for branching processes, high dimensional data analysis, variable selection, biological applications

Richard Johnson

Emeritus

Life Testing and Reliability, Statistical Inference, Large Sample Theory, Applied Multivariate Analysis

Sunduz Keles

Statistics / 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

Bret Larget

Statistics / 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

Michael Newton

Statistics / Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department

Monte Carlo Methods for Inference, Modeling, Biological Applications

Erik Nordheim

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

Karl Rohe

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

Statistical model building and machine learning, multivariate function estimation, complex data structures, indirect and inverse problems, applications in biostatistics and meteorology.

Sijian Wang

Statistics / Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Department

Statistical learning, high dimensional data analysis, variable selection, survival analysis, Bioinformatics

Yazhen Wang

Robert Wardrop

Emeritus

Sequential Methods, Statistical Education, Statistics in Sports

Brian Yandell

Statistics / Horticulture (CALS)

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

Statistics / Entomology (CALS), Biometry Program

Spatial Statistics, Environmental Statistics, Asymptotic Theory, Resampling Methods

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