41 faculty and 0 courses in Statistics at University of Chicago.
- Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor h-index 75
Notable: “Large Sample Properties of Generalized Method of Moments Estimators” (1982) · 13,876 citations
- Donald Hedeker, Professor of Biostatistics h-index 68
For example in the areas of mobile health (mHealth) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies. For such intensive longitudinal data, Don has developed the mixed-effects
Notable: “A Practical Guide to Calculating Cohen’s f2, a Measure of Local Effect Size, from PROC MIXED” (2012) · 1,300 citations
- Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus h-index 42
Notable: “The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900.” (1987) · 811 citations
- Gregory F. Lawler, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Values of Brownian intersection exponents, II: Plane exponents” (2001) · 373 citations
- Peter McCullagh, John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus h-index 40
Notable: “Generalized Linear Models (2nd ed.).” (1993) · 4,955 citations
- Mihai Anitescu, Professor (Part-Time) h-index 40
- Dacheng Xiu, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics h-index 39
Developing statistical methodologies and applying them to financial data, while exploring their economic implications. My earlier work involved risk measurement and portfolio management with high-frequency data and econometric model
Notable: “Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning” (2020) · 2,241 citations
- Rebecca Willett, Professor h-index 39
Signal processing, machine learning, and large-scale data science. In particular, I have studied methods to leverage low-dimensional models in a variety of contexts, including when data are high-dimensional, contain missing entries
Notable: “Single disperser design for coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging” (2008) · 1,047 citations
- Wei-Biao Wu, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Nonlinear system theory: Another look at dependence” (2005) · 597 citations
- Per A. Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor h-index 35
Notable: “A Tale of Two Time Scales: Determining Integrated Volatility with Noisy High Frequency Data” (2003) · 1,445 citations
- Yali Amit, Professor Emeritus h-index 30
- Risi Kondor, Associate Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Gaussian Approximation Potentials: The Accuracy of Quantum Mechanics, without the Electrons” (2010) · 3,148 citations
- Mary Sara McPeek, Professor h-index 29
In statistical genetics and development of statistical methods. Software for most of my projects is available on my website . Specific current research interests include: methods for genetic association analysis, including methods for b
- Li Ma, Professor h-index 26
Notable: “XWAS: A Software Toolset for Genetic Data Analysis and Association Studies of the X Chromosome” (2015) · 151 citations
- Steven P. Lalley, Professor Emeritus h-index 25
Notable: “A Conditional Limit Theorem for the Frontier of a Branching Brownian Motion” (1987) · 181 citations
- Cong Ma, Assistant Professor h-index 24
- Rina Foygel Barber, Louis Block Professor h-index 23
In developing and analyzing estimation, inference, and optimization tools for structured high-dimensional data problems such as sparse regression, sparse nonparametric models, and low-rank models. I work on developing methods for false
Notable: “Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability” (2023) · 186 citations
- Veronika Rockova, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and James S. Kemper Faculty Scholar h-index 19
Notable: “The Spike-and-Slab LASSO” (2016) · 346 citations
- Kirk Wolter, Professor (Part-Time) h-index 18
Notable: “Introduction to Variance Estimation.” (1987) · 1,390 citations
- Ewain Gwynne, Professor of Mathematics h-index 18
- Victor Veitch, Assistant Professor h-index 17
S include network data, and the foundations of learning and statistical inference. Last update: 7/10/23 News & Highlights UChicago Co-Leads $10 Million NSF Institute on Foundations of Data Science , August 9, 2022 Victor Veitch, first UChic
Notable: “Contextuality supplies the ‘magic’ for quantum computation” (2014) · 627 citations
- Guillaume Bal, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Simultaneous Reconstruction of Activity and Attenuation in Time-of-Flight PET” (2012) · 255 citations
- Chao Gao, Professor h-index 16
Spread across nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics, network analysis, Bayes theory and robust statistics. Last update: March 2024 News & Highlights Chao Gao awarded the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023 , July 13, 202
Notable: “Robust covariance and scatter matrix estimation under Huber’s contamination model” (2018) · 129 citations
- Xinran Li, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Es mainly on developing novel methodologies for causal inference. I specialize in randomization-based inference for causal effects, sensitivity analysis for observational studies, experimental design such as rerandomization
Notable: “General Forms of Finite Population Central Limit Theorems with Applications to Causal Inference” (2017) · 182 citations
- Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Associate Professor h-index 12
In inverse problems, data assimilation, and mathematical foundations of data science and machine learning. My aim is to contribute to the formulation and mathematical analysis of scientific questions involving data, and to develop and&n
Notable: “Importance Sampling: Intrinsic Dimension and Computational Cost” (2017) · 136 citations
- Yuehaw Khoo, Associate Professor h-index 11
- Promit Ghosal, Assistant Professor h-index 11
- Claire Donnat, Assistant Professor h-index 10
- Nikolaos Ignatiadis, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Data-driven hypothesis weighting increases detection power in genome-scale multiple testing” (2016) · 760 citations
- Frederic Koehler, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Computational learning theory and related topics: probability theory, high-dimensional statistics, optimization, related aspects of statistical physics, etc. In particular, he is very interested in learning and inference in graphica
Notable: “Information Theoretic Properties of Markov Random Fields, and their Algorithmic Applications” (2017) · 24 citations
- Aaron Schein, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Bayesian Poisson Tensor Factorization for Inferring Multilateral Relations from Sparse Dyadic Event Counts” (2015) · 74 citations
- Jeremy Hoskins, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “The structure and functioning of the couplon in the mammalian cardiomyocyte” (2011) · 25 citations
- Brent Doiron, Heinrich Kluver Professor
Es on a combination of nonlinear dynamics and statistical mechanics, with an emphasis on the genesis and transfer of variability in neural circuits. I have developed core theoretical insights that have made contributions to both neural
- Dan Nicolae, Interim Chair, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor
- Jingshu Wang, Assistant Professor
In developing statistical methods and machine learning tools for cutting-edge bio-technologies and genetic problems. We currently work on various problems related to single-cell multi-omics and Mendelian Randomization. We also develop ge
- Lek-Heng Lim, Professor
Notable: “Preface to the Special Issue on Statistics” (2015)
- Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the College
Include: Sparsity, shrinkage, and false discovery rates, particularly for complex inter-related datasets. Factor Analysis, dimension reduction, and estimation of large covariance matrices. Clustering methods, and generalizations (eg grade o
- Mengjie Chen, Associate Professor
- Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor
In causal inference and machine learning. My current work has a particular focus on applying methods for frequentist inference to data collected in adaptive experiments, and I work on methods to optimize adaptive experimental desig
- Nati Srebro, Professor (Part-Time)
- Nisha Chandramoorthy, Assistant Professor
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