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David Blei
ProfessorOffice: Room 912 SSW
Phone: 212-854-5450
Email: david.blei@columbia.edu
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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 of Ph.D. StudiesOffice: Room 1007 SSW
Email: jpc2181@columbia.edu
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Program Directors, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://stat.columbia.edu/~cunningham/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://stat.columbia.edu/~rdavis/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://stat.columbia.edu/~vp/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/
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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Samory Kpotufe
Associate ProfessorOffice: Room 911 SSW
Phone: 2128545391
Email: skk2175@columbia.edu
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://stat.columbia.edu/~jcliu/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: https://confluence.columbia.edu/confluence/display/statgene/Shaw-Hwa+Lo
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
Program(s): Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
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Arian Maleki
Associate ProfessorOffice: Room 1013 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2140
Email: mm4338@columbia.edu
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/malekiarian/
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Sumit Mukherjee
Associate ProfessorEmail: sumitm@stat.columbia.edu
Program(s): Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~mnutz/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~protter/
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
Program(s): 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
Program(s): Administrative Staff, Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~bodhi/Bodhi/Welcome.html
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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Administrative Staff, Full-Time Faculty, Senior Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~tzheng/
Research Interests: statistical learning, network analysis, statistical genetics and computational biology
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Junior Faculty, Tenure Track
Marco Avella
Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 926
Phone: 2128512159
Email: marco.avella@columbia.edu
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: 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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Cynthia Rush
Associate ProfessorOffice: Room 1009 SSW
Email: cgr2130@columbia.edu
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: 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
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Steven Campbell
Assistant ProfessorEmail: sc5314@columbia.edu
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Yongchan Kwon
Assistant ProfessorEmail: yk3012@columbia.edu
Program(s): 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 Ph.D. 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
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Yisha Yao
Assistant ProfessorEmail: yy3381@columbia.edu
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
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Chenyang Zhong
Assistant ProfessorEmail: cz2755@columbia.edu
Program(s): Junior Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Statistics Department
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cyzhong/home
Chenyang Zhong received his Ph.D. 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
Lecturer in DisciplineOffice: Room 613 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1397
Email: bb2717@columbia.edu
Program(s): Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
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Wayne T. Lee
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: wtl2109@columbia.edu
Program(s): Lecturer in Discipline, Statistics Department
Website: https://leewtai.github.io
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Dobrin Marchev
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: dm3174@columbia.edu
Program(s): 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
Lecturer in Discipline, Director of Undergraduate StudiesOffice: Room 612 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1398
Email: rcn2112@columbia.edu
Program(s): Lecturer in Discipline, Program Directors, Statistics Department
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Alex Pijyan
Lecturer in DisciplineEmail: ap4347@columbia.edu
Program(s): 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
Program(s): 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
Program(s): Lecturer in Discipline, Program Directors, Statistics Department
Research interests: Time Series Analysis, Functional Data Analysis, Applications to Finance and Economics.
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Affiliated Faculty
Joel E. Cohen
Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, School Intl & Public AffairsPhone: 646-799-1548
Email: cohen@rockefeller.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: https://eesc.columbia.edu/content/joel-e-cohen
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Siddhartha R. Dalal
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Professional StudiesEmail: sd2803@columbia.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
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Mark Hansen
Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation & Professor of JournalismPhone: 212-854-9988
Email: markh@columbia.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/428-mark
Year of Visit: Summer 2012
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
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Serena Ng
Edwin W. Rickert Professor of EconomicsEmail: serena.ng@columbia.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~sn2294/
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Maria Uriarte
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental BiologyEmail: mu2126@columbia.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~mu2126/
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Chris Wiggins
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Systems BiologyOffice: Room 205 Mudd
Email: chris.wiggins@columbia.edu
Program(s): Affiliated Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~chw2/
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Adjunct Faculty
Demissie Alemayehu
Adjunct Professor, Director of Admissions for the M.A. Program in StatisticsOffice: Room 929 SSW
Phone: 212-851-2153
Email: da15@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Program Directors, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~alem/
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Paolo Bertolotti
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: pmb2133@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Mark Brown
Adjunct ProfessorOffice: Room 614 Watson Hall
Phone: 212-853-1400
Email: mb2484@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
Research Interests: Probability theory; Applied probability models; Inequalities; Reliability theory; Quantitative analysis in sports; Applied statistics
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Alexander Clark
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: ac4725@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
Alexander Clark is a data scientist on LinkedIn's Content Experience team. He has also taught in the Applied Analytics MS program in Columbia's School of Professional Studies, and he was a data scientist at Peloton prior to joining LinkedIn. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focused on social pressure and influence.
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Regina Dolgoarshinnykh
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 929 SSW
Email: regina@stat.columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
Website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~regina/
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Anthony Donoghue
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 901A SSW
Email: ad2798@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Praijat Dube
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: pd2637@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Hammou El Barmi
Adjunct ProfessorOffice: Room 901A SSW
Email: eh2336@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Musa M Elbulok
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: mme2150@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
Musa Elbulok is a graduate of the Measurement and Evaluation program at Teachers College. His research interests are in cognitive diagnostic models and causal inference.
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Tat Sang Fung
Adjunct ProfessorEmail: tsf1@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Xiaofu He
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorEmail: xh2170@cumc.columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Lei Kang
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: lk2958@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Jeonghoe Lee
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: jl6431@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Ying Liu
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorEmail: yl2587@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Ha Nguyen
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorEmail: hhn2108@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Ka Yi Ny
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorEmail: kn15@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Cristian Pasarica
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: cgp16@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Kamiar Rahnama Rad
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: kr2248@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Franz Herbert Rembart
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: fhr2111@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
PhD, University of Oxford, 2016
Applied Probability Theory & Statistics
Franz Rembart is a Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he focuses on digitization and data science topics in Financial Services & Insurance, and the Public/Social Impact Sector. His academic research interests include random tree growth processes, operations on continuum random trees and related fields. An illustrative example of his work would be “Recursive construction of continuum random trees,” with Matthias Winkel, The Annals of Probability 2018/19. Franz received his PhD in Applied Probability Theory & Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2016. During his studies, he was a Stipendiary Lecturer at the renowned Christ Church, Oxford. He holds a Masters’ degree in Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (both with a minor in Economics) from the Technical University Munich.
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David Rios
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorOffice: Room 610 Watson, 6th floor
Phone: 212-851-0708
Email: dar27@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Isabella Sanders
Adjunct Assisant ProfessorEmail: its2111@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Ori Shental
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: os2350@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Haiyuan Wang
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorEmail: hw2592@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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Rongning Wu
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: rw2556@columbia.edu
Program(s): Adjunct Faculty, Statistics Department
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