GIDP Faculty & Research Interests

Regular Members

Regular Members of the GDIP in Statistics are those University faculty and staff involved in teaching core Statistics courses, directing M.S. and Ph.D. students in the GIDP, and/or others who have agreed to be significantly active in the Program.

Lingling An, Ph.D. (Purdue University), Assistant Professor of Biometry.
Statistical genetics/genomics; Bioinformatics; Data mining and pattern recognition.

Jacobus J. (Kobus) Barnard, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University), Associate Professor of Computing Science; Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Machine learning; Mathematical modeling of geometric form; Multi-modal data; Statistical applications in computer vision.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), J.D. (University of Michigan), Associate Professor of Law; Director, Rogers Program on Law and Society.
Bayesian statistics; Causation and selection models; Empirical methods in law; Discrimination; Expert witnesses.

Rabindra N. (Rabi) Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Professor of Mathematics.
Markov processes; Large sample theory; Statistical shape analysis; Economic theory of growth under uncertainty.

D. Dean Billheimer, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Associate Professor of Biometry; Director, Statistical Consulting Laboratory.
Measurement and normalization, Quantitative proteomics, Statistical methods for compositional data.

Zhao Chen, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Professor of Public Health; Director, Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Research study design; Longitudinal data analysis; Risk assessment.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (University of Adelaide, Australia), Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Mathematical ecology; Ecological statistics; Stochastic processes; Biodiversity.

Melinda F. (Mende) Davis, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Research Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Latent variable modeling; Measurement of change; Item response theory; Health outcomes research; Statistical consulting.

Scott R. Eliason, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Associate Professor of Sociology.
Categorical data analysis; Maximum likelihood estimation; Causal inference; Social statistics; Mathematical demography.

William G. Faris, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Professor of Mathematics.
Stochastic processes; Mathematical statistics.

James T. (Jake) Harwood, Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Barbara), Professor of Communication.
Applied statistics in the social sciences; Hypothesis testing; Moderator and mediator effects.

Keisuke Hirano, Ph.D. (Harvard University), Associate Professor of Economics.
Econometrics; Causal inference.

Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Assistant Professor of Public Health.
Survival analysis; Missing data; Statistical modeling.

Chengcheng Hu, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Assistant Professor of Public Health.
High-dimensional data; Survival analysis; Longitudinal data; Missing data; Measurement error.

Christopher S. Johnson, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology.
Hierarchical generalized linear models; Repeated measures analysis; Item response theory.

Bonnie J. LaFleur, Ph.D. (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), Associate Professor of Public Health.
Biostatistics; Exact tests/permutation tests; Cancer biology; Genomics.

Zhenqiang (James) Lu, Ph.D. (Purdue University), Statistician, Arizona Statistical Laboratory.
Data visualization; Data mining; Computational statistics; Bioinformatics.

Nirav Merchant, M.S. (University of Arizona), Director of Information Technology, Arizona Research Labs.
Data mining; Classification; Quality control.

Yue (Selena) Niu, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Nonparametric statistics; Semiparametric modeling; Statistical genetics.

Walter W. Piegorsch, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Public Health; Professor of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering; Chair, GIDP in Statistics.
Environmental statistics; Quantitative risk assessment; Statistical toxicology; Biometry; History of statistics.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Dr.P.H. (University of California at Los Angeles), Professor of Public Health.
Clinical trials; Epidemiological studies; Pharmacokinetics.

Moshe Shaked, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), Professor of Mathematics.
Reliability theory; Stochastic modeling; Stochastic orders.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), Professor of Public Health; Associate Dean of Research, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Longitudinal analyses; Respiratory disease assessment; Applied data analyses; Biometry.

Robert J. Steidl, Ph.D. (Oregon State University), Associate Professor of Natural Resources.
Quantitative ecology; Dynamics of animal populations; Conservation biology.

Michael Tabor, Ph.D. (Imperial College), Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Physics; Professor of Mathematics; Head, GIDP in Applied Mathematics.
Nonlinear growth dynamics; Chaotic dynamical systems; Biomechanical models; Biomathematics.

Daoqin Tong, Ph.D. (Ohio State University), Assistant Professor of Geography & Regional Development.
Spatial statistics; Optimization; Geographic information systems (GIS).

Bruce Walsh, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Professor of Public Health; Adjunct Professor of Plant Science; Adjunct Professor of Animal Science.
Biostatistics; Statistical genetics/genomics; Mixed models; Bayesian analysis; Resampling and MCMC methods.

Joseph C. Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), Professor of Mathematics.
Stochastic processes; Limit theorems; Statistical applications in the life sciences.

Affiliate Members

Affiliate Members of the GDIP in Statistics are those with a general interest in statistical issues who wish to be fully informed of the Program’s operation, and who wish to engage in a limited subset of Program activities. Affiliate members often rotate to Regular status at pertinent intervals, and vice versa.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (Harvard University), Professor of Sociology.
Statistical models for social network analysis; Log-linear models; Log-multiplicative models for contingency tables.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor of Family Studies & Human Development.
Multivariate time-series analysis; Multilevel modeling; Dyadic models; Social-relations modeling.

Noel A. Card, Ph.D. (St. John's University), Assistant Professor of Family Studies & Human Development.
Latent variable modeling; Structural equation modeling; Meta-analysis; Dyadic data analysis.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Professor of Geography & Regional Development; Associate Vice President for Research; Dean of the Graduate College and Director of Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs.
Statistics of climate data; Data reduction; Spatial modeling.

Sandy Dall'erba, Ph.D. (University of Pau), Assistant Professor of Geography & Regional Development.
Spatial statistics; Spatial econometrics.

Michael N. Evans, Ph.D (Columbia University), Adjunct Associate Professor of Dendrochronology.
Paleoclimatology; Spatiotemporal data analysis; Forward and inverse modeling.

Jonah B. Gelbach, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor of Economics.
Applied microeconometrics; Bootstrap-based inference; Public economics; Law and economics.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (Yale University), Associate Professor of Economics.
Structural econometric modeling; Applied Bayesian econometrics; Estimation of dynamic models.

Thomas G. Kennedy, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Physics.
Monte Carlo simulations; Random walks.

Robert S. Maier, Ph.D. (Rutgers University), Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Physics.
Applied probability; Mathematical statistics; Limit laws and large deviation theory; Bioinformatics.

Joanna Monti-Masel, D.Phil. (Oxford University), Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Stochastic processes; Bayesian learning models; Theoretical population genetics; Stochasticity in gene expression.

Brian J. McGill, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Associate Professor of Natural Resources.
Habitat models; Advanced regression & data mining; Spatial & temporal analysis; Philosophy of science and statistics.

David M. Meko, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Associate Research Professor of Dendrochronology.
Spectral analysis; ARMA modeling; Time series filtering; Regression.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology; Professor of Family Studies; Head, Department of Communication.
Meta-analysis; Longitudinal data analysis; Regression analysis; Dyadic data analysis.