Faculty (Category)

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 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
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
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
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, Electronic health records, Epidemiology, Health disparities, Measurement error, Missing data, Social Determinants of Health, 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/