Leadership

Department Chair

  • Mason statistics chair Jiayang Sun

    Professor, Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar, and Department Chair; Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.

Associate Chairs

  • Brett Hunter wears a navy suit in his faculty profile

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Education (ACE), Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Statistical computing, extreme value theory, biometric human recognition.
  • Mason statistics professor John Stufken

    Professor, Associate Chair for Research (ACR), and Graduate Program Co-Director (GPD); Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Orthogonal arrays, crossover designs, optimal design of experiments, and subdata selection methods.

Program Directors

  • Mason assistant professor Isuru Dassanayake wears a blue suit and tie in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director (GPD), Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Machine learning, statistics computing, heteroscedastic mixed-effects models, spatial data analysis, bayesian statistics, high dimensional data analysis.
  • Mason associate professor Ilhan Izmirli

    Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director (UPD), Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Applied probability, mathematics education, statistics education, history of mathematics, history of statistics, foundations of mathematics

Minors Coordinator

  • Kenneth Strazzeri wears a gray suit and green tie in his headshot

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Statistics education, online education