Faculty in statistics have a range of interests from theoretical, to methodological, to applied. We regularly consult and collaborate with our colleagues throughout the university and participate in multidisciplinary research. We offer a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Data Science and two graduate degrees: an M.S. in Statistics (available both in person and remote) and a Ph.D. in Statistics. Jointly with CICS, we also offer a Certificate in Statistical and Computational Data Science. The Statistics and Data Science Seminar features both theoretical and applied talks and internal and external speakers.

Statistics Faculty

Professor; Associate Department Head

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Research Interests: Statistics, measurement error, smoothing, measurement of physical activity
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Professor; Director, Stat MS Graduate Admissions (Charles River Campus, Newton)

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Research Interests: Statistics; Bayesian methods for data science, big data and analytics; bioinformatics; biostatistics.
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Professor

Anna Liu.
Research Interests: Non-parametric statistics, mixed models, active learning, optimization, anomaly detection, single cell RNA analysis
Anna Liu.

Professor

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Research Interests: Statistics; Statistical Dependence/Association; Categorical Data Modelling; Mixture Modeling; Likelihood Inference; Interdisciplinary research on food science
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Professor

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Research Interests: social science statistics, social networks, sampling, network sampling, link-tracing sampling, respondent-driven sampling
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Associate Professor

Patrick Flaherty.
Research Interests: large-scale genomic data, hierarchical Bayesian models, variational inference, robust experiment design
Patrick Flaherty.

Associate Professor; Statistics Program Director

Lulu Kang.
Research Interests: Statistical Design of Experiments, Statistical Learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Statistics and Approximate Inference, Optimization, Application of Data Science
Lulu Kang.

Associate Professor; Statistics Program Associate Director

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Research Interests: Statistics
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Associate Professor; Director, Statistics MS & PhD Graduate Admissions (Amherst Campus)

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Education: PhD Statistics, Stanford University
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Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, causal inference, shape-constrained inference, survival analysis.
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Assistant Professor

CarlosSoto
Research Interests: statistical shape analysis, functional data analysis, differential privacy, and geometric statistics.
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Assistant Professor in Statistics

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Research interests: Selective inference, Density estimation, Data science education
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Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Digital Twins, Bayesian Optimization, Transfer Learning.
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Senior Lecturer II

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Lecturer

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Jialin Li
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, stochastic optimization, statistical learning, applications with the theme of social good
Jialin Li

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Multivariate Extremes and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling
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Statistics Adjacent Faculty

Associate Professor

Brian Van Koten.
Research Interests: Applied Probability, Numerical Analysis
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Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Network science; Data-driven modeling and inference; Model reduction and scientific computing.
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Assistant Professor

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Current Statistics Ph.D. Students

Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

Ankit Kumar
PhD student in Statistics
Interests: Computational Biology, Quantitative Finance, Economics
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Graduate Student

Thomas Robacker.
Ph.D. student in Statistics
Current Courses:
Introduction to Statistics
STAT 240.02AF
M 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Thomas Robacker.

Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. student in Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Graduate Student

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Ph.D. Student, Statistics
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Current Statistics M.S. Students

Vutjiya Senabunyarithi, Jiaqi Chen, Enobong Umoren, Zhichao Xu, Duc Thinh Nguyen, Kyle Almeida, Emmanuel Sakyi-Amah Ankomah, Noelle Cook, Yu Deng, Laila Badaru Moro, Jonathan Gallant Nable, Usman Nasiru, Marisa Anjali Patel, Eliana Boreri Raposo, Jia Ren, Natalie Paige Brownlowe, Sena Blekor, Albert Agah Ofoe, Thi Thu Ha Vo, Anabel Costa, Mia Josephy-Zack, Mila Lewis-Peinado, Austin Paczkowski, Aaron Shikh

Statistics Ph.D. Alumni

Harsh Vardhan Dubey, Yujian Wu, Zhou Tang, Anjali Albert, Amirhossein Alvandi, Rui Hu, Thomas Cook, Shai He, Ji Ah Lee, Bright Antwi Boasiako, Vishal Kumar Sarsani

Statistics M.S. Alumni

Su Yang, Peiqi Jiang, Amy Stephen, Hasmik Grigoryan, Sandani Kumanayake, Hanyu Xiao, Rose Porta, Owen Gallagher,  Andrew Hennessey, Foster Osei, Ziyan Zhao, Xinyu Zhou, Isabella Hurley, Derrick Wu, Samad Abbasi, Ka Wing Cheung, Benjamin Abakah Abijah, Edwin Amponsah, Vishwajith Reddy Anagandula, Vishvesh Sanjay Gandhi, Taesu Kim, Sijing Yu, Claire Casey

Statistical Consulting and Collaboration Services

Who We Are

SCCS provides statistical consulting and collaboration to researchers at UMass, the Five Colleges, and elsewhere, through individual meetings and support for interdisciplinary research projects. The SCCS staff are statistics faculty and students at UMass and the Five Colleges.

For more information about consulting services, please visit their webpage.