• Four Science Terps Awarded 2025 Goldwater Scholarships

    Four undergraduates in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) have been awarded 2025 scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.  Over the last 16 years, UMD’s nominations Read More
  • Announcing the Winners of the Frontiers of Science Awards

    Congratulations to our colleagues who won the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award: - Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, for his join paper with Humbler and Seyfaddini: “Proof of the simplicity conjecture”, Annals of Mathematics 2024. - Dima Dolgopyat & Adam Kanigowski, for their joint paper with Federico Rodriguez Hertz: “Exponential mixing implies Bernoulli”, Annals of Mathematics Read More
  • 2024 Putnam Results

    We are very excited to report that our MAryland Putnam team ranked 7th among 477 institutions that participated in the 2024 Putnam math competition. Our team members this year were Daniel Yuan, Isaac Mammel, and Clarence Lam. Daniel Yuan ranked 26th among 3,988 participants. Clarence Lam and Isaac Mammel were recognized for Read More
  • From Math Olympiads to Diplomacy: Meet Visiting Math Professor Qendrim Gashi

    Maryland Global, published a great interview with our visiting professor (and diplomat), Qendrim Gashi. The interview is available at https://marylandglobal.umd.edu/about/news/math-olympiads-diplomacy-meet-visiting-math-professor-qendrim-gashi Read More
  • Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science and Performing Arts at UMD, Dies

    Eugenia Brin, a Russian immigrant and retired NASA scientist who, with her family of accomplished Terps, became an important benefactor of the University of Maryland, died on Dec. 3, 2024. She was 76 years old. The rest of the article can be read here: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/eugenia-brin-1948-2024 Read More
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Statistics Faculty Research Interests

The statistics faculty research interests cover a wide range of topics in both statistics and probability. 

Sandra Cerrai

Stochastic analysis, Stochastic partial differential equations, Probabilistic methods for PDEs in finite and infinite dimension

Dmitry Dolgopyat

Dynamical Systems, Averaging Theory, Transport in Random Media

Mark I. Freidlin

Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Random Perturbations of Dynamical Systems, Probabilistic Methods in P.D.E.'s and Analysis

Abram Kagan

Characterization Problems, Estimation Theory, Semi-Parametric Models

Benjamin Kedem

Time series, Semiparametric inference, Generalized Linear Models, Statistics of space-time observations, Spatial prediction, Zero-crossings

Leonid Koralov

Stochastic processes and applications, Branching processes, Asymptotic analysis of probabilistic models

Yuan Liao

Econometric Theory, Bayesian asymptotics

Jian-Jian Ren

Survival Analysis and its Applications in Biomedical Research, Linear models, Likelihood methods, Resampling Methods, Analysis of Censored Data

Takumi Saegusa

Survival Empirical Process Theory, Semiparametric Models, Complex Sampling, Bootstrap

Eric V. Slud

Sample Survey Theory, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Survival Analysis

Paul J. Smith

Nonparametric and Robust Statistics, Categorical Data Analysis

Tingni Sun

High-dimensional statistical inference, Nonparametric Statistics, Sparse/Low-rank matrix problems

Grace Yang, Professor Emerita

Stochastic Modelling with Application to Biological and Physical Sciences, Asymptotic Theory in Statistics, Survival Analysis

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