Welcome to The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science!

Department Chair:  Joseph Lang
Director of Graduate Studies:  Dale Zimmerman
Undergraduate Advisor for Statistics:   R. P. Russo
Undergraduate Advisor for Actuarial Science: Elias Shiu
Graduate Advisor for Statistics:   Dale Zimmerman
Graduate Advisor for Actuarial Science: N.D. Shyamalkumar

Faculty/Staff Directory

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has four interrelated missions by which it serves the University, the state, and the world. These four missions are:

• to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with strong degree programs and excellent instruction in probability, statistics, and actuarial science;
• to conduct and publish outstanding research in probability, statistics, and actuarial science;
• to promote the solid practice of statistics at the University and beyond; and
• to produce leaders in the insurance, pension, and actuarial consulting industry.
   

Faculty
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
Fall 2011

Row 1: Robert V. Hogg
Row 2 (left to right): Jian Huang, Aixin Tan, Erning Li, Kate Cowles, Joyee Ghosh, Qihe Tang
Row 3: (left to right): Elias S.W. Shiu, Kung-Sik Chan, Blake Whitten, Osnat Stramer, Joseph B. Lang, Ruitao Liu
Row 4: (left to right): Jerome Pansera, Russell V. Lenth, Luke Tierney, Jonathan D. Cryer (Emeritus)
Row 5: (left to right): James D Broffitt (Emeritus), Dale Zimmerman, Richard Dykstra, Johannes Ledolter, Matthew Bognar

Not Pictured: Joe Cavanaugh, Rhonda DeCook, John Geweke (Emeritus), Michael P. Jones, Paul Muhly, Mary Russo, Ralph P. Russo, N.D. Shyamalkumar, George G. Woodworth (Emeritus), Robert F.Woolson (Emeritus)

Distinguished history—promising future