Faculty
Rob Erhardt
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Statistics and Operations Research, 2012, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Environmental and Climate Statistics, Computational Statistics, Actuarial Science.
Home Page: http://users.wfu.edu/erhardrj/
Dan Beavers
Associate Professor
Manchester 337
Ph.D. Statistical Sciences, 2009, Baylor University
Research Interests: Bayesian Methods, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, epidemiology, misclassification
Home Page: https://sites.google.com/view/danielpbeavers/home
Kenneth Berenhaut
Professor
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 237
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University
Research Interests: statistical modeling workflow, model expansion, observational causal inference, and statistics education
Home Page: https://collin-cademartori.com
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
Associate 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
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, statistics education, file linking, missing data
Home Page: https://nicolemdalzell.weebly.com/
Ciaran Evans
Assistant Teaching 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/
Junoh Heo
Assistant Professor
Manchester 236
Ph.D. in Statistics, Michigan State University
Research Interests: Computer experiments, multi-fidelity simulation, uncertainty quantification
Home Page: https://heojunoh.github.io
Staci Hepler
Professor
Associate 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
Associate 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, Electronic health records, Epidemiology, Health disparities, Measurement error, Missing data, Social Determinants of Health, Two-phase designs
Home Page: https://www.sarahlotspeich.com
Natalie Mastin
Assistant Teaching Professor
Manchester 240
Ph.D., Statistics, Baylor University (2025)
Research Areas: functional data analysis and data science education
Brian Richardson
Assistant Professor
Manchester 235
Ph.D. Biostatistics, 2026, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Causal inference, infectious diseases, measurement error, network interference
Home Page: Brian Richardson
Lynne Yengulalp
Associate Teaching Professor
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
Tuhin Majumder
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 331
PhD, Statistics, North Carolina State University (2022)
Research Interests: Markov Chain, Convex Optimization, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Genome Sequencing, Bayesian Statistics, Robust Statistics
Saeed Movahedi
Visiting Lecturer
Manchester 348
Master’s in Statistics, Wake Forest University
Research interests: Coastal Marsh Statistics, Bayesian Analysis
Mostafa Shams
Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 234
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