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 Statistics and Data Science Concentration for undergraduate math majors 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

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

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

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; Asymmetric Dependence/Association; Categorical Data Modelling; Mixture Modeling; Likelihood Inference; Interdisciplinary research on food science
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Professor; Coordinator, Statistics Program

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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

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

Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor; Director, Stat MS & PhD Graduate Admissions (Amherst Campus)

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Education: PhD Statistics, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor

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

Carlos Soto.
Carlos Soto.

Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor
Faculty information page for Nathan Wycoff.

Senior Lecturer II

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Marshall H. Stone Visiting Assistant Professor

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Visiting Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Nonparametric Statistics, Bayesian Inference and Modeling, Computational Statistics
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Visiting Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Probability, stochastic processes
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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

Statistics Adjacent Faculty

Assistant Professor

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

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Network science; Data-driven modeling and inference; Model reduction and scientific computing.
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Current Statistics Ph.D. Students

Graduate Student

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PhD student in statistics

Harsh Vardhan Dubey.
Education: B.Sc(H), Mathematics, University of Delhi, 2015
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PhD student in Statistics

Ankit Kumar
Interests: Computational Biology, Quantitative Finance, Economics
Ankit Kumar

Doctoral Student

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

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Current Statistics M.S. Students

Peiqi Jiang, Amy Stephen, Denis Folitse, Hasmik Grigoryan, Sandani Kumanayake, Christopher Odoom, Hanyu Xiao, Rose Porta, Owen Gallagher,  Andrew Hennessey, Isaac Macarthur, Foster Osei, Ziyan Zhao, Xinyu Zhou

Statistics Ph.D. Alumni

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

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.