
Core Faculty


Elizabeth Housworth
Professor of Statistics, Mathematics, and Biology / Department Chair
Dr. Housworth's research interests include statistical genetics, especially models of crossover interference, phylogenetics, genomics, combinatorics, probability, and statistics.

Chunfeng Huang
Associate Professor
Dr. Huang's research interests include spatial statistics, spline smoothing and nonparametric regression, survival analysis, computational statistics.

Brad Luen
Senior Lecturer


Amanda Mejia
Associate Professor
Dr. Mejia is interested in the development of statistical methods for the analysis of brain imaging data.

Michael Trosset
Professor of Statistics / Director of Graduate Studies

Arturo Valdivia
Senior Lecturer / Director of Undergraduate Studies

Jianyu Wang
Senior Lecturer
Fangzheng Xie
Assistant Professor
Dr. Xie's research interests include High-dimensional statistics, Network analysis, Bayesian statistics, and Computer models.