Profiles

Leadership Team

Haavard Rue

Program Chair, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics bayesian methodology latent Gaussian models spatial statistics

Faculty

David Bolin

Associate Professor, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics stochastic differential equations computational statistics

Haavard Rue

Program Chair, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics bayesian methodology latent Gaussian models spatial statistics

Hernando Ombao

Professor, Statistics

Time Series Spectral Analysis Wavelets Longitudinal Models Mixed Effects Models Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Electroencephalograms

Marc G. Genton

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Statistics

mathematical modelling visualization computational predictions spatio-temporal data analysis applied statistics

Maurizio Filippone

Associate Professor, Statistics

Bayesian Statistics Deep learning Gaussian processes

Paula Moraga

Assistant Professor, Statistics

Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics geospatial modeling Spatial epidemiology Bayesian disease mapping point processes Public health surveillance

Raphaël Huser

Associate Professor, Statistics

Statistics of extremes extreme-value theory spatio-temporal statistics data science machine learning copulas Environmental Statistics geostatistics applications to finance applications to neuroscience

Ying Sun

Associate Professor, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics environmental applications computational statistics

Affiliate Faculty

Ibrahim Hoteit

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Geophysical Fluid Modeling Bayesian Estimation uncertainty quantification Red Sea

Jesper Tegner

Professor, Bioscience

living systems machine learning machine intelligence systems medicine genomics artificial intelligence brain-inspired computation Systems neuroscience algorithmic information theory Dynamical Systems spatial transcriptomics single cell biology

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

FD-MIMO communications cognitive radio systems modulation schemes optical wireless communication systems

Omar Knio

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

uncertainty quantification bayesian inference computational fluids mechanics combustion High Performance Computing

Peter Richtarik

Professor, Computer Science

optimization machine learning big data algorithms

Raul Tempone

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

numerical analysis Computational finance computational statistics stochastic differential equations uncertainty quantification bayesian inference data assimilation hierarchical and sparse approximation optimal control optimal experimental design stochastic optimization

Tareq Al-Naffouri

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

statistical signal processing communications tracking wireless networks Localization

Xin Gao

Program Chair, Computer Science

bioinformatics Computational biology machine learning big data

Instructional Faculty

Joaquin Ortega Sanchez

Instructional Professor, Statistics

Stochastic processes Gaussian processes functional data analysis

Research Scientists and Engineers

Alexandre de Bustamante Simas

Research Scientist, Statistics

Fouzi Harrou

Research Scientist, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics Environmental Statistics statistics machine learning

Janet van Niekerk

Research Scientist, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics Survival analysis Biostatistics

Sameh Abdulah

Research Scientist, Hierarchical Computations on Manycore Architectures

exageostat extreme computing parallel algorithms large-scale computing machine learning Statistical computing

Postdoctoral Fellows

Ángel López Oriona

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

computational statistics Time Series Data Mining artificial intelligence

Bingqing Yi

Consultant, Statistics

copulas Statistics of extremes

Denis Rustand

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Survival analysis Bayesian computational statistics

Elias Teixeira Krainski

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics geospatial statistics spatio-temporal statistics

Esmail Abdul Fattah

Ph.D., Statistics

Iris Ivy Gauran

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biostatistics Group

Jose Hermenegildo Ramirez Gonzalez

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

computational statistics spatio-temporal statistics Environmental Statistics statistics

Joydeep Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

functional data analysis multivariate analysis spatial statistics quantile regression non-parametric methods

Kelvin Jhonson R. Silva

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Maicon J. Karling

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

goodness-of-fit tests multivariate statistics skewed distributions Time Series

Matthew Sainsbury-Dale

Consultant, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics Statistics of extremes machine learning Deep learning

Sarbojit Roy

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

high dimensional statistics Time Series

Shuhao Jiao

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Sipan Aslan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Time Series Analysis Causal Connectivity Dynamic Clustering

Vaibhav Mehandiratta

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Stochastic fractional differential equations Metric graphs numerical analysis optimal control problems

Yan Song

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

subsampling spatial statistics

Students

Abeer Alzahrani

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Abylay Zhumekenov

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics

Andre Victor Ribeiro Amaral

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Cristian Felipe Jiménez Varón

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

functional data analysis Quantile spectral methods Functional Time Series forecasting Statistical Modeling Environmental Statistics

Damilya Saduakhas

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

geospatial statistics environmental applications multivariate spatial processes

Daniel Osorio Barreto

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Biostatistics behavioral economics macroeconomics

Djidenou Montcho

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics machine learning

Eman Abdullah Kabbas

Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Bayesian and computational Statistics Bayesian Data Aalysis data science Applied and theoretical statistics Data Sciences

Farah Abdulrazak Gomawi

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Fernando Rodriguez Avellaneda

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Gulzhan Tumenbayeva

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics statistics

Hanan Alahmadi

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics statistics geospatial statistics health surveillance spatio-temporal disease data

Jesus Diaz Martinez

M.S. Student, Statistics

Joao Vitor Cordeiro de Brito

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Time Series random processes on graphs

Junshu Jiang

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Quantitative finance

Kesen Wang

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Konstantinos Bakas

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Lenin Rafael Riera Segura

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Malik Shahid Sultan

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Applied Machine Learning Deep learning Deep Reinforcement Learning Functional Time Series

Mara Sherlin Talento

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Biostatistics Spectral Analysis Neuroimaging

Martina Le-Bert Heyl

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Małgorzata Forystek

M.S. Student, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics data science

Mohammad Alhyari

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Mohammed Al Saleem

M.S. Student, Statistics

Mohammed Alsubaie

M.S. Student, Statistics

Noura Alotaibi

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Statistics of extremes spatial statistics data science

Pratik Nag

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

spatio-temporal modeling machine learning artificial intelligence uncertainty quantification computational statistics

Qihao Duan

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Qilong Pan

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

statistics Deep learning

Ruiman Zhong

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Spatial data fusion clustering algorithms spatio-temporal data analysis

Shourya Dutta

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Sihan Chen

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Xiang Ye

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Xiaotian Jin

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Statistical Modeling spatio-temporal statistics

Xiran Zhang

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Xuanjie Shao

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Statistics of extremes

Yongxin Zhu

Ph.D., Statistics

Zhen Xiong

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Ziling Ma

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Time Series Analysis robust statistics nonparametric statistics

Zipei Geng

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics high dimensional statistics graphical models

Zuzheng Wang

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Alumni

Abdulaziz Almutlaq

M.S. Student, Statistics

Alibi Jangeldin

M.S. Student, Statistics

spatio-temporal statistics statistics

Amine Bejaoui

M.S., Statistics

machine learning Deep learning applied statistics

Chaouki ben Issaid

Ph.D., Statistics

Rare wireless commnucation events

Cristian Chiuchiolo

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bayesian computational statistics statistics

Daniela Cisneros

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Statistics of extremes spatio-temporal statistics

Enas Alahmadi

M.S. Student, Statistics

Statistics of extremes

Ercong Zhang

M.S. Student, Statistics

Esmail Abdul Fattah

Ph.D., Statistics

Fangyuan Yu

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

computational probability Monte Carlo Methodology

Gaurav Agarwal

Ph.D., Statistics

Environmental Statistics spatial statistics