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Statistics Faculty

Lahiri, Partha

  • Professor
  • Address: LeFrak Hall 1218
  • Phone: (301) 405-5903
  • E-mail:

Website: https://www.math.umd.edu/~plahiri/

Research Interests: Survey Sampling, Multi-level Modeling, Small-Area Estimation, Bayes and Empirical Bayes Inference, Resampling Methods

Lin, Lizhen

  • STAT Program Director & Professor
  • Address: MATH 1107
  • Phone: (301) 405-5060
  • E-mail:

Website: https://blog.umd.edu/lizhen01/

Research Interests: Bayesian modeling and asymptotics, Statistics on manifolds, Network analysis; Statistical properties of deep neural network models & generative modeling,  Machine learning. 

Lyzinski, Vince

  • Associate Professor
  • Address: MATH 2306
  • Phone: (301) 405-5047
  • E-mail:

Website: https://www.math.umd.edu/~vlyzinsk/

Research Interests: Random graph inference, statistical machine learning, graph matching algorithms, Markov chains, probability, combinatorics

Ren, Joan Jian-Jian

  • Professor
  • Address: MATH 2305
  • Phone: (301) 405-5473
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~jjren/

Research Interests: Statistical Models and Inferences, Survival Analysis Applications in Biomedical Research, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Likelihood Methods.

Saegusa, Takumi

  • Associate Professor
  • Address: MATH 4303
  • Phone: (301) 405-4137
  • E-mail:

Website: https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/tsaegusa/

Research Interests: Empirical Process Theory under Complex Sampling, General Semiparametric Models, Inference for High-Dimensional Data

Slud, Eric

  • Professor
  • Address: MATH 2314
  • Phone: (301) 405-5469
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~slud/

Research Interests: Inference for Sample Surveys, mathematical statistics, semiparametrics, Survival Analysis, census statistics, meta-analysis, pharmaceutical statistical methods

Yang, Yun

  • Associate Professor
  • Address: MATH 2310
  • Phone: (301) 405-5112
  • E-mail:

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

Research Interests: Theory of high-dimensional statistics; Bayesian modeling and theory; machine learning; statistical learning theory; optimization.

Kagan, Abram

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Address: MATH
  • Phone: (301) 405-9812
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~akagan/

Research Interests: Inference in Parametric Models, Fisher's Information, Analytical Problems in Statistics, Foundations of Statistical Inference

Kedem, Benjamin

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Address: MATH 4411
  • Phone: (301) 405-5112
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~bnk/

Research Interests: Time series analysis, space-time statistical problems, geophysical time series, random binary sequences, random vibration signals in mechanical systems

Smith, Paul

  • Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Address: MATH
  • Phone: (301) 405-5476
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~pjs/

Research Interests: Empirical Process Theory under Complex Sampling, General Semiparametric Models, Inference for High-Dimensional Data

Yang, Grace L.

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Address: MATH 4402
  • Phone: (301) 405-5480
  • E-mail:

Website: https://math.umd.edu/~gyang1/

Research Interests: Empirical Process Theory under Complex Sampling, General Semiparametric Models, Inference for High-Dimensional Data

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