Faculty Research Interests Ahn, Jeongyoun High dimension low sample size problems, Statistical learning Bai, Ray (Shuyang) Probability: Limit theorems, Self-similar processes, Wiener chaos, Statistics: Long-range dependence, Time series, Resampling Billard, Lynne Symbolic Data, Epidemic Theory , AIDS , Time Series , Sequential Analysis Chen, Xianyan Dimension Reduction, Optimization, Statistical Consulting Datta, Gauri Small Area Estimation , Survey Sampling , Baysian Analysis , Bayes-Frequentist Interface , Likelihood Inference , Multivariate Analysis , Asymptotics , Linear Models , Development of Non-subjective Priors Hall, Daniel Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Regression Models, Analysis of Clustered Data, Mixture Models Ji, Pengsheng Social Networks, Machine Learning, Rare and Weak Signals in Big Data, Quantitative Evaluation of Academic Research, Variable/Feature Selection Liu, Liang My research interests include phylogenetics, modeling biological data, statistical analysis of molecular data, and parallel computing. I am particularly interested in reconstructing species phylogenies from multilocus sequences., I and my colleagues have developed several phylogenetic methods for estimating the evolutionary history of species. Ma, Ping Bioinformatics, Functional Data Analysis, Geophysics Mandal, Abhyuday Design of Experiments, Applied Statistics, Optimization and Genetic Algorithms Park, Cheolwoo Multiscale Analysis, Nonparametric Function Estimation, Statistical Learning Reeves, Jaxk Statistical Consulting, Phlylogenetics, Climate Modeling Schliekelman, Paul Gene Mapping of Complex Traits, Mathematical Models of Evolution, Statistical Approaches in Proteomics Seymour, Lynne Properties and applications of seasonal time series, Applying image models to social networks, Properties of the maximum pseudo-likelihood estimate for Markov random fields Sriram, T.N. Sequential estimation, branching processes , bootstrap , adaptive designs , linear and nonlinear time series Xiao, Qian Computer Experiments (space-filling design, Lating hypercube design), Experimental Designs (orthogonal array, supersaturated design), Drug Combination Experiments, Modeling (Kriging model, Sparse model), Big Data Technique Zhong, Wenxuan Bioinformatics, Big Data Analysis