Primary Faculty

  • Matthew Bognar
    Associate Professor of Instruction
    Research Interests:

    Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics, Educational Software, High Performance Computing (HPC), Parallel Computing, Programming Languages: C++, Java, R, OpenMP, Eigen, TNT, Boost, Blitz, Intel MKL, Objective C/C++, Flutter, Swift/SwiftUI, Spatial Statistics, Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE's)

    358 SH
    (319) 335-0799
  • Kung-Sik Chan
    Professor and DEO, Statistics and Actuarial Science
    Robert V. Hogg Professor
    Fellow, American Statistical Association
    Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    Research Interests:

    Time Series Analysis, Data Mining, High-dimensional Inference, Medical Statistics, Statistical Ecology, Fisheries Statistics, Hydrology, Epidemiological Modeling, Stochastic Differential Equation Modeling, Sampling-based Inference, Chaos, Semiparametric Statistics

    241 SH
    (319) 335-2849
  • Joyee Ghosh
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests:

    Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics

    Office Hours:

    By appointment only.

    372 SH
    (319) 335-0816
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    368 SH
    (319) 335-1209
  • Joseph Lang
    Professor
    Fellow, American Statistical Association
    Research Interests:

    Statistical inference for Categorical Data, Exact and Approximate Interval Estimation, Foundations of Mathematical Statistics and Inference (Freq, Bayes, Fiducial, Fuzzy), Causal inference, Randomization Tests, Missing Data, Generalized Regression Modeling

    271 SH
    (319) 335-3129
  • Erning Li
    Associate Professor of Instruction
    Research Interests:

    longitudinal, functional, and multivariate data, mixed effects models and measurement errors, multivariate tests, semiparametric and nonparametric inferences

    231 SH
    (319) 335-0820
  • Alex Liebrecht
    Lecturer
    Research Interests:

    Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Spatio-temporal statistics, Environmental statistics, Statistical education

    221 SH
    (319) 335-1038
  • Elias Shiu
    Professor
    Collegiate Fellow
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Actuarial Science
    Research Interests:

    Actuarial Science, Asset/Liability Management, Mathematical Finance

    362 SH
    (319) 335-2580
  • N.D. Shyamalkumar
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests:

    Actuarial Science: Statistical Inference of Risk Measures, Dependence Modeling in the Tails, Applied Probability: Probabilistic Trees, Analysis of Algorithms

    208 SH
    (319) 335-1980
  • Sanvesh
    Associate Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Data Science and Statistics
    219 SH
    (319) 335-0824
  • Osnat Stramer
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests:

    Inference of stochastic processes using Bayesian Statistics.: with Biology and Finance applications., Monte Carlo methods in Statistics., Stability theory for Markov chains

    370 SH
    (319) 335-3182
  • Aixin Tan
    Director of Graduate Studies
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests:

    Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian Statistics, Model Selection

    259 SH
    (319) 335-0821
  • Andrew M. Thomas
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests:

    Topological data science, stochastic topology, machine learning in science, topological methods in imaging, stochastic process limits, U-statistics, extreme value theory, functionals of point processes, changepoint detection.

    205 SH
    (319) 335-1041
  • Luke Tierney
    Professor
    Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences
    Fellow, American Statistical Association
    Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    Research Interests:

    Bayesian Methods, Computing Environments for Statistics, Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics

    Office Hours:

    By appointment only.

    209 SH
    (319) 335-3386
  • Josh Zhiwei Tong
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests:

    Credit portfolio losses , Financial networks and systemic risk , Insurance under information asymmetry

    374 SH
    (319) 467-0160
  • Boxiang Wang
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests:

    Data science, Machine learning

    261 SH
    (319) 335-2294
  • Nathan Wikle
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests:

    Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, Causal inference, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Statistical inference for dynamical systems, Environmental statistics, Environmental health and epidemiology

    207 SH
    (319) 335-1042
  • Dale Zimmerman
    Professor
    Fellow, American Statistical Association
    Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    Research Interests:

    antedependence models, environmetrics, linear model theory, spatial statistics, sports statistics

    217 SH
    (319) 335-0818