About Statistics (STAT) Program

The KAUST Statistics (STAT) program plays a crucial role in tackling some of the fundamental challenges arising in modern Statistical Data Science. The interdisciplinary character of the program allows students to study and carry out research projects of global relevance and to engage in international collaborations.

Nowadays, statistics crosses the borders of a vast array of disciplines offering conceptual and practical frames to design scientific investigations, to model real phenomena, predict events and quantify uncertainty out of an unprecedented amount of data made available by the exponential increase in the size of datasets.

Statistics applications range from environmental analysis and extreme climatic events forecasting to the optimization of renewable energy production, geophysics, marine and human biology, as well as medical investigations that could bring a paradigm shift in healthcare practices.

Students in the STAT program thrive in an environment rich with opportunities to explore cutting-edge research and coursework in a diverse range of statistical subfields. These subfields span from Bayesian methods and big data analytics to biostatistical applications and computational statistics, also encompassing data visualization techniques, environmental modeling, extreme value theory, spatial statistics, statistical data science, and time series analysis.