Statistics Research

Our faculty conduct research across a broad range of foundational and emerging areas of statistics and data science. They are renowned experts in their fields and their work drives progress and knowledge-generation within statistical sciences and across disciplines.

Foundational areas

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Tokunbo Fadahunsi, Brett Hunter, David Kepplinger, Ben Seiyon Lee, William Rosenberger, Abolfazl Safikhani, Jiayang Sun, Anand Vidyashankar
Clinical Trials, Study Protocol, and Experimental Design Brett Hunter, Nicholas Rios, William Rosenberger, John Stufken, Jiayang Sun​
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Analysis Wanli Qiao, Abolfazl Safikhani, Jiayang Sun, Lily Wang​
Measurement Error and Selection Bias Jonathan Auerbach, David Kepplinger, Jiayang Sun​
Geometric Data Analysis, Random Fields, and Inference for Geometric Objects Wanli Qiao, Jiayang Sun​
Bayesian Analysis and Inference Jonathan Auerbach, Isuru Dassanayake​
Spatial, Temporal, and Functional Data Ben Seiyon Lee​, Abolfazl Safikhani, Jiayang Sun, Lily Wang
Simultaneous Inference, Multiple Comparisons, and Extreme value theory Brett Hunter, David Kepplinger, Jiayang Sun
Statistical Education/Pedagogy Ilhan Izmirli
High-dimensional or Big Data Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Ben Seiyon Lee, Nicholas Rios, Abolfazl Safikhani, John Stufken, Jiayang Sun

Emerging areas

Crowdsourcing and Modern Sample Surveys Jonathan Auerbach, Jiayang Sun​
Natural Language Processing, Statistics for Electronic Health Records (EHR and Multisourced data) David Kepplinger, Martin Slawski, Jiayang Sun​
Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Interface of Statistics and Computer Science Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Wanli Qiao, Nicholas Rios, Abolfazl Safikhani, Martin Slawski, Jiayang Sun, Anand Vidyashankar, Lily Wang​
Statistical Privacy and Security Analytics, Compliance and Regulatory Anand Vidyashankar​
Statistical Computing, Visualization and Data Mining David Kepplinger, Ben Seiyon Lee, Nicholas Rios​, Jiayang Sun
Data Compression, Record Linkage, and Feature Selection David Kepplinger, Abolfazl Safikhani, John Stufken, Martin Slawski, Jiayang Sun​
Statistical Imaging, Mixture Models, and Causal Inference Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Abolfazl Safikhani, Jiayang Sun

Further data analytics research is listed under Data Analytics research.