Faculty
Department Chair
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 349
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/
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
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 348
Ph.D., Statistics, Baylor University (2025)
Research Areas: functional data analysis and data science education
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
Building 29 – Rm 009
PhD, Statistics, North Carolina State University (2022)
Research Interests: Markov Chain, Convex Optimization, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Genome Sequencing, Bayesian Statistics, Robust Statistics
Sanjaya Mananage
Visiting Assistant Professor
Building 29 – Rm 008
Ph.D., Data Science and Statistics, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2025
Research Areas: Truncated Regression, Post-Selection Inference (PoSI), High-Dimensional Statistical Inference, Model Selection and Inference, Machine Learning
Saeed Movahedi
Visiting Lecturer
Building 29 – Rm 016
Master’s in Statistics, Wake Forest University
Research interests: Coastal Marsh Statistics, Bayesian Analysis
Eva Murphy
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 122
PhD Clemson University
Research Interests: Statistical modelling; Spatio-temporal statistics; Deep learning; Data fusion; Environmental and Epidemiology applications
Home Page: https://evamurphy100.github.io/
Paul Quaye
Visiting Assistant Professor
Building 29 – Rm 007
PhD, Mathematics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Research Interests: Regression, Testing with the One Component Partial Least Squares Estimator, High Dimensional Data, Statistical Learning, Statistical Inference, Model Selection.
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