Faculty
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Rob Erhardt
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Statistics and Operations Research, 2012, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Dan Beavers
Associate Professor
Manchester 337
Ph.D. Statistical Sciences, 2009, Baylor University
Research Interests: Bayesian Methods, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, epidemiology, misclassification
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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/
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Collin Cademartori
Assistant Professor
Manchester 349
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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Dimuthu Fernando
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bldg 29-009
PhD Old Dominion University
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Wimarsha Jayanetti
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bldg 29-008
PhD Old Dominion University
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Eva Murphy
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 122
PhD Clemson University
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Anh Nguyen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 348
M.S. Statistics from Wake Forest University
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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
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Mostafa Shams
Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 122
Ph.D. Statistics, 2022, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Affiliate Faculty
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Courtney Di Vittorio
Assistant Professor of Engineering; Affiliate Faculty in Statistical Sciences
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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