Welcome to the
Department of Statistical Sciences
at Wake Forest University
Mission Statement: The mission of the Department of Statistical Sciences is to educate students to become leaders and advocates for sound statistical reasoning, and to improve our society through innovative statistical and interdisciplinary research. To succeed in this mission, the Department will:
- Offer a premier undergraduate educational experience to Statistics, Applied Statistics and Decision Analytics majors, preparing each for successful careers as well as further graduate study.
- Offer a personalized Master’s program in Statistics, creating pathways into the field and opportunities for mentored research.
- Contribute to the advancement of the statistical sciences through peer-reviewed research and scientific collaborations across disciplines.
- Support the wider Wake Forest community with high quality general statistics education offerings.
- Welcome to Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow Shih-Ni PrimEDUCATION: Ph.D. Statistics, 2026, North Carolina State University RESEARCH INTERESTS: Foundations of Statistics, Imprecise Probabilities, Inferential Models, Spatial Statistics, Environmental Statistics
- Welcome to Visiting Assistant Professor Pathum NawarathnaEDUCATION: Ph.D. Mathematics with an emphasis in Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2026 RESEARCH INTERESTS: Statistical genetics and genomics, with a focus on developing statistical methods to study complex traits in model organisms, particularly mice
- Welcome to Assistant Professor Qingyang (Kevin) LiuEDUCATION: Ph.D. in Statistics, University of South Carolina RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics, Deep Learning, Non-Gaussian Data Modeling, Causal Inference
- Welcome to Assistant Professor Junoh HeoEDUCATION: Ph.D. in Statistics, Michigan State University RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computer experiments, multi-fidelity simulation, uncertainty quantification
- Welcome to Assistant Professor Brian RichardsonEDUCATION: Ph.D. Biostatistics, 2026, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill RESEARCH INTERESTS: Causal inference, infectious diseases, measurement error, network interference