Faculty
Department Chair

Rob Erhardt
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Statistics and Operations Research, 2012, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty

Dan Beavers
Associate Professor
Manchester 337
Ph.D. Statistical Sciences, 2009, Baylor University
Research Interests: Bayesian Methods, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, epidemiology, misclassification

Kenneth Berenhaut
Professor and Baker Family Faculty Fellow
Ph. D. Statistics, The University of Georgia, 2000
Research Interests: Applied probability; discrete dynamics; networks, multi-agent systems; convergence rates; mathematical inequalities; mathematical and statistical models; difference equations; statistical methodology; matrix inequalities; analytic, probabilistic and combinatorial number theory; discrete structures.
Home Page: https://berenhaut.sites.wfu.edu/

Collin Cademartori
Assistant Professor
Manchester 349
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University

Leonardo Cella
Assistant Professor
Manchester 344
Ph.D. Statistics, 2021, North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Foundations of Statistics, Imprecise Probabilities, Inferential Models
Home Page: https://www.leocella.com/

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
Assistant Professor
Manchester 342
PhD, Biostatistics Vanderbilt, 2018
Research Interests: Causal inference, Human-data interaction, Data Science
Home Page: https://www.lucymcgowan.com/

Nicole Dalzell
Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D. in Statistical Science, Duke University, 2017
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, statistics education, file linking, missing data
Home Page: https://nicolemdalzell.weebly.com/

Ciaran Evans
Assistant Professor
Manchester 329
Ph.D. in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021
Research interests: Changepoint detection, applied statistics, statistical learning, statistics education
Home Page: https://ciaran-evans.github.io/

Noah Gade
Assistant Professor
Manchester 331
PhD, Statistics, University of Virginia.
Research Interests: Characterizing nonlinear dependence in temporal and spatial processes, statistical machine learning, representation learning, and causal inference (specifically Granger causality)
Webpage: sites.google.com/view/noahdgade/home

Staci Hepler
Associate Professor & Assistant Chair
Manchester 341
PhD Statistics – The Ohio State University – 2015
Research Interests: Spatial statistics, Bayesian modeling, Environmental Statistics, Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.
Home Page: http://go.wfu.edu/heplersa

Emily Huang
Assistant Professor
Manchester 340
PhD Johns Hopkins University ’17 — Biostatistics
Research interests: Digital Phenotyping, Causal Inference, and Clinical Trials.
Home Page: https://emhuangbiostat.wordpress.com/

Sarah Lotspeich
Assistant Professor
Manchester 333
Ph.D. Biostatistics, 2021, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Biostatistics, Censored covariates, Measurement error, Missing data, Two-phase designs
Home Page: https://www.sarahlotspeich.com

Lynne Yengulalp
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Math & Stats Center
Manchester 135
PhD Mathematics, University of Kansas 2009
Research interests: Topology and set theory
Home Page: https://sites.google.com/a/wfu.edu/lynne-yengulalp-wfu/
Visiting Faculty

Dimuthu Fernando
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bldg 29-009
PhD Old Dominion University

Wimarsha Jayanetti
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bldg 29-008
PhD Old Dominion University

Eva Murphy
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 122
PhD Clemson University

Anh Nguyen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 348
M.S. Statistics from Wake Forest University

Yasin Rabby
Visiting Assistant Professor
Building 29 Rm 007
Ph.D. Geography, 2021, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Research Interests: Geostatistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Geospatial Modeling, Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment

Mostafa Shams
Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 122
Ph.D. Statistics, 2022, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Affiliate Faculty

Courtney Di Vittorio
Assistant Professor of Engineering; Affiliate Faculty in Statistical Sciences

David Kline
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science; Affiliate Faculty in Statistical Sciences
Research Interests: Population Health, Population Surveillance, Health Policy, Public Health, Infectious Disease, Bayesian Methods
Home Page: https://school.wakehealth.edu/faculty/k/david-m-kline