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Genevera I. Allen
ProfessorEmail: gia2109@columbia.edu
Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://genevera-allen.com
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David Blei
ProfessorOffice: Room 912 SSW
Phone: 212-854-5450
Email: david.blei@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/
Research Interests: Probabilistic topic models, Bayesian nonparametrics, Hierarchical Bayesian models, Scalable Bayesian computation
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John P. Cunningham
Professor, Director for Graduate StudiesOffice: Room 1007 SSW
Email: jpc2181@columbia.edu
Faculty Leadership, Full-Time Faculty, Program Directors, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: statistical machine learning and its applications, particularly neuroscience
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Richard A. Davis
Howard Levene ProfessorOffice: Room 1026 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2137
Email: rdavis@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: Time series analysis, financial time series modeling, extreme value theory, spatial-temporal modeling with environmental applications, applied probability, and stochastic processes.
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Victor de la Pena
ProfessorOffice: Room 1027 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2144
Email: vp@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: Inequalities in Probability and Statistics, Sequential Analysis, Boundary Crossing and Change Point Problems, U-Statistics and Processes, Self-Normalized Processes, General Dependence Structures Including Martingales, Decoupling, Copulas. Managing Risk in Complex Systems, Banking, Actuarial Sciences, Earth Sciences, Climatology Global Warming.
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Andrew Gelman
Higgins Professor of StatisticsOffice: Room 1016 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2142
Email: gelman@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for democracy; reversals of death sentences; police stops in New York City, the statistical challenges of estimating small effects; the probability that your vote will be decisive; seats and votes in Congress; social network structure; arsenic in Bangladesh; radon in your basement; toxicology; medical imaging; and methods in surveys, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics.
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Ioannis Karatzas
ProfessorOffice: Room 619 Mathematics Building
Phone: 212-854-3177
Email: ik@math.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~ik/
Research Interests: Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Random Processes, Stochastic Analysis, Optimization, Mathematical Economics and Finance.
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Samory Kpotufe
ProfessorOffice: Room 911 SSW
Phone: 2128545391
Email: skk2175@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://www.columbia.edu/~skk2175/index.html
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning theory, Nonparametric Methods and Adaptivity, Minimally Supervised Learning, e.g., Active Learning, Domain Adaptation and Transfer Learning.
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Jingchen Liu
ProfessorOffice: Room 1030 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2146
Email: jcliu@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: Applied probability: extreme/rare-event analysis of Gaussian random fields, heavy-tailed stochastic systems, and random ordinary/partial differential equations; theory development for importance sampling and MCMC algorithms. Psychometrics: various inference problems of diagnostic classification models and their applications to psychiatric and education testing data; computerized adaptive testing.
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Shaw-Hwa Lo
ProfessorOffice: Room 1006 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2133
Email: slo@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: Survival Analysis, Design of Clinical Trials, Resampling Methods, Coverage Problems, Analysis of Incomplete Data, Nonparametric Methods, Asymptotic Theory, Empirical Bayes Methodology. Statistical Genetics. Bioinformatics. Genetic network analysis.
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David Madigan
Professor Emeritus of StatisticsEmail: david.madigan@columbia.edu
Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Arian Maleki
Associate ProfessorOffice: Room 1013 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2140
Email: mm4338@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Sumit Mukherjee
Associate ProfessorEmail: sumitm@stat.columbia.edu
Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://stat.columbia.edu/~sumitm/index.html
Research Interests: Exponential families, estimation of log normalizing constant, consistent estimation, pseudo-likelihood. Gaussian processes, persistence problems, roots of random polynomials. Limits of permutations, large deviation and non uniform models on permutations. Graph theory, dense graph limits, large deviation for sparse graphs, graph coloring problems.
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Marcel Nutz
ProfessorOffice: Room 1031 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2148
Email: mnutz@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: mathematical finance, optimal transport, game theory, probability theory
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Liam Paninski
ProfessorOffice: Room 1028 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2166
Email: liam@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: neural data analysis, machine learning
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Philip E. Protter
ProfessorOffice: Room 1029 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2145
Email: pep2117@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Research Interests: Probability Theory, primarily in Mathematical Finance, but also in Markov Processes, Filtering Theory, and Numerical Analysis of Stochastic Differential Equations. Within Finance, recent interests include Ultra High Frequency Trading and Market Microstructure, Financial Bubbles, Mathematical Models of Insider Trading, and Models of Liquidity.
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Daniel Rabinowitz
ProfessorOffice: Room 1014 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2141
Email: dan@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Research Interests: Statistical methods for clinical and genetic epidemiology.
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Bodhisattva Sen
Professor, Vice Chair for ResearchOffice: Room 1032 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2149
Email: bodhi@stat.columbia.edu
Faculty Leadership, Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: Nonparametric function estimation (especially under shape constraints). Bootstrap based inference in non-standard problems. Change-point and threshold models. Applications in Astronomy and High Energy Physics.
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Michael Sobel
ProfessorOffice: Room 1008 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2135
Email: mes105@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://stat.columbia.edu/webpages/msobel/
Research Interests: Causal Inference, fMRI, Social Statistics
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Simon Tavaré
Professor of Statistics and of Biological Sciences; Director, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer DynamicsOffice: Schermerhorn Suite 601
Phone: 2128537068
Email: st3193@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://tavarelab.cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/
Research Interests: Stochastic computation, approximate Bayesian computation, data science, computational biology, statistical bioinformatics, cancer evolution, population and evolutionary genetics including coalescent theory. Statistical inference in molecular biology, human genetics, molecular evolution and palaeontology. Probabilistic combinatorics.
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Zhiliang Ying
ProfessorOffice: Room 1033 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2151
Email: zying@stat.columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://stat.columbia.edu/~zying/index.html
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Ming Yuan
ProfessorOffice: Room 1010 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2143
Email: ming.yuan@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
http://www.columbia.edu/~my2550/
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Tian Zheng
Professor, ChairOffice: Room 1004 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2131
Email: tzheng@stat.columbia.edu
Faculty Leadership, Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Research Interests: statistical learning, network analysis, statistical genetics and computational biology
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Junior Faculty, Tenure Track
Marco Avella
Howard Levene Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 926
Phone: 2128512159
Email: marco.avella@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://sites.google.com/site/marcoavellamedina/home
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Bianca Dumitrascu
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Herbert Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data ResearchEmail: bmd2151@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://computational-morphogenomics-group.github.io/
Research interests: statistical machine learning for genomics: single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, live-imaging
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Yuqi Gu
Assistant ProfessorEmail: yuqi.gu@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://stat.columbia.edu/~yuqigu/
Research Interests: Latent variable models, latent structure analysis, tensor decompositions, graphical models, mixture models, statistical machine learning, Bayesian statistics, multivariate categorical data, psychometrics and cognitive diagnostic modeling.
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Chris Harshaw
Assistant ProfessorEmail: crh2167@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://www.chrisharshaw.com/
Research interests: causal inference, experiment design, interference, sequential analysis, algorithms
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Cynthia Rush
Associate ProfessorOffice: Room 1009 SSW
Email: cgr2130@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
http://www.columbia.edu/~cgr2130/
Research Interests: Information Theory, Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics, Message Passing Algorithms, Signal Processing
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Anne van Delft
Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 1012 SSW
Email: av2972@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://sites.google.com/view/anne-van-delft
Research interests: functional data analysis, time series analysis (on function spaces), nonstationary stochastic processes.
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Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track
Graeme Baker
Assistant ProfessorEmail: g.baker@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Steven Campbell
Assistant ProfessorEmail: sc5314@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Yongchan Kwon
Assistant ProfessorEmail: yk3012@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Yongchan Kwon is a new term Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics. His research focuses on developing more interpretable and rigorous machine learning methods, directly motivated by scientific questions. In particular, he has been interested in data valuation and attribution problems. Before joining Columbia, he received a PhD at Seoul National University in South Korea and did a postdoc at Stanford University.
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Alberto Gonzalez Sanz
Assistant ProfessorEmail: ag4855@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Yisha Yao
Assistant ProfessorEmail: yy3381@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Chenyang Zhong
Assistant ProfessorEmail: cz2755@columbia.edu
Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
https://sites.google.com/view/cyzhong/home
Chenyang Zhong received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2022 advised by Prof. Persi Diaconis. His research interests revolve around Markov chain Monte Carlo (including design of efficient sampling algorithms and their convergence rate analysis), probability (including random permutation models, random matrix theory, and interacting particle systems), and statistical machine learning. He is also enthusiastic about the applications to scientific problems.
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Lecturers in Discipline
Banu Baydil
Senior Lecturer in DisciplineOffice: Room 613 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1397
Email: bb2717@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
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Ashley Datta
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: pd2511@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
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Wayne T. Lee
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: wtl2109@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
https://leewtai.github.io
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Dobrin Marchev
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: dm3174@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
Since I got my PhD from University of Florida, I have been teaching Statistics for more than 15 years. Before Columbia University I had held positions at CUNY, University of Sydney, SUNY and Teachers College, among others. I also have research interests in MCMC methodology.
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Ronald Neath
Senior Lecturer in Discipline, Director of Undergraduate StudiesOffice: Room 612 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1398
Email: rcn2112@columbia.edu
Faculty Leadership, Lecturer in Discipline, Program Directors, Statistics Department
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Alex Pijyan
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: ap4347@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
Alex Pijyan recently graduated from Michigan State University with a doctoral degree in Statistics. His professional interests focus on undergraduate and graduate statistics education. He recently joined the department of Statistics, where he will pursue his teaching career as a lecturer in Discipline. Originally, Alex is from Georgia, a small country in Eastern Europe with rich historical and cultural heritage.
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Joyce Robbins
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: jtr13@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
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Gabriel Young
Lecturer in Discipline, Director of Graduate Studies for the M.A. Program in StatisticsOffice: Room 614 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1395
Email: gjy2107@columbia.edu
Faculty Leadership, Lecturer in Discipline, Program Directors, Statistics Department
Research interests: Time Series Analysis, Functional Data Analysis, Applications to Finance and Economics.
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