Research in the Department of Statistics drives innovation across healthcare, technology, clinical trials, and public policy.
Our work advances the field through high-impact contributions published in leading peer-reviewed journals and plays a vital role in solving complex, data-driven challenges across disciplines.
Faculty are developing methods for clinical trials, investigating privacy risks in health databases, advancing time series analysis in fields like neuroscience and psychiatry, and using stylometry to study the authorship of historical documents. Students at every level, whether working on senior capstone projects or pursuing a PhD, join faculty in research that is at the forefront of modern statistics.
Our Research Areas
“I have grown to love telling a story with data. I love being able to take a collection of data, figure out what it’s saying, and quantify how much we can rely on what it’s saying.”
— Charis Vaseghi, BS Statistics '19
“Our work makes meaningful contributions to the statistical foundations of geometric/topological data analysis, motivated by relevant real-world applications.”
— Wanli Qiao, professor of statistics