Statistics Faculty

Our faculty are experts in the fields of biostatistics, big data analytics, visualization, and government statistics.

  • Mason statistics professor Wanli Qiao

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, geometric data analysis, machine learning, extreme value theory
  • Mason assistant professor Nicholas Rios stands for a headshot photo in front of the Nguyen Engineering building.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Functional data analysis, computational statistics, Gaussian process modeling, models for compositional data analysis.
  • Mason Professor William Rosenberger

    Distinguished University Professor, Statistics

    Research Interests: Biostatistics, modern inference, probability theory, stochastic processes.
  • Mason assistant professor Abolfazl Safikhani wears a blue suit and light shirt in his faculty profile

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Network modeling, high-dimensional statistics, spatio-temporal models, unsupervised learning (change point detection, clustering), random forest.
  • Mason assistant professor Martin Slawski wears a blue shirt, glasses, and black hair

    Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: High-dimensional data, data compression, record linkage, optimization in statistical settings, machine learning, forensic statistics.
  • Associate professor Kenneth Strazzeri in a black suit

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Statistics education, online education
  • Mason statistics professor John Stufken

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Orthogonal arrays, crossover designs, optimal design of experiments, and subdata selection methods.
  • Mason statistics chair Jiayang Sun

    Professor, Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar, and Chair; Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.
  • Mason associate professor Clifton Sutton

    Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Classification and regression, robust statistical inference, biometric identification.
  • Mason professor Anand Vidyashankar

    Professor, Department of Statistics

    Research Interests: Bioinformatics and biopharmaceutical statistics, robust inference, branching process, risk theory.