Statistics and Biostatistics Faculty & Staff

	Robert H. Berk
	Professor, Ph.D. Harvard
	Hill 578
	Email: berk stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in sequential methods, non-parametric statistics, quality control, and large sample theory. National Science Foundation Grant for Research. Fulbright Research Fellow. Fellow, IMS. Served as Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics.

	Steven Buyske
	Research Associate Professor, Ph.D. Brown, Ph.D. Rutgers
	Hill 559, 732-445-3428 (fax)
	Email: buyske stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in statistical genetics, biostatistics, psychometrics, and experimental design.

	Javier Cabrera
	Professor and Director, Institute of Biostatistics. Ph.D. Princeton
	Hill 471
	Email: cabrera stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in Biostatistics, Data mining methodology for clinical trial data, Functional Genomics data, DNA and Protein array data, and DNA Barcode data. Statistical computing, graphics, and machine vision. Fulbright Scholar, NSF Grants for Research. Funding for Biostatistics from Pfizer.

	Rong Chen
	Professor, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon
	Hill 475
	Email:
	Research interests: Nonlinear and multivariate time series analysis, Monte Carlo methods, statistical computing and Bayesian analysis, statistical applications in economics and business, statistical applications in bioinformatics.

	Arthur Cohen
	Professor, Ph.D. Columbia
	Hill 576
	Email: artcohen rci rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in statistical inference, decision theory, multivariate analysis, and linear models. Statistician, Epidemic Intelligence Service, Communicable Disease Center, U. S. Public Health Service. Fellow: ASA, IMS, and International Statistical Institute. Former Ed. of Annals of Statistics, J. of Multivariate Analysis. Former Assoc. Ed. of JASA, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference.

	Richard F. Gundy
	Professor, Ph.D. Indiana (Experimental Psychology); Ph.D. Chicago (Statistics).
	Hill 455
	Email: gundy rci rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in probability theory, harmonic analysis. NSF Grants for Research. Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

	Donald R. Hoover
	Professor, Ph.D. Stanford, MPH Epidemiology UCLA
	Hill 473
	Email: drhoover stat rutgers edu
	Research Interests: Clinical trials, epidemiology, longitudinal methods, group randomization and multiple comparisons. Associate Editor, Journal of Urban Health. National Institute of Health Grants. Core member, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

	Ying Hung
	Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
	Hill 507
	Email: yhung stat rutgers edu
	Research Interests: Experimental design, computer experiments.

	Rebecka Jornsten
	Associate Professor, Ph.D. UC Berkeley
	Hill 451
	Email: rebecka stat rutgers edu
	Research interests: Applied statistics, image and signal processing, and time series analysis

	John Kolassa
	Professor and Graduate Director, Ph.D. University of Chicago
	Hill 504
	Email: kolassa stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in asymptotics. Biostatistics. Former Associate Editor, JASA. NIH, NSF Research grants. Fellow, ASA.

	Regina Y. Liu
	Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Columbia
	Hill 506
	Email: rliu stat rutgers edu
	Research Interests: Data Depth, Text Mining, Nonparametric Inferences, Resampling. NSF Grant. Fellow of ASA, IMS. Editor: J. of Multivariate Analysis. Associate Editor: Annals of Statistics, JASA, TEST - J. of Spanish Soc. of Statistics and O.R.

	Joseph Irwin Naus
	Professor, Ph.D. Harvard
	Hill 571
	Email: naus stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in applied probability, sampling theory, data quality control, clustering and coincidence models, matching in DNA sequences. NSF Grants for research, CCNY and Rutgers. Fellow, ASA.

	Harold B. Sackrowitz
	Professor and Undergraduate Director, Ph.D. Columbia
	Hill 563
	Email: sackrowi rci rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in statistical inference and decision theory, multiple endpoint procedures, order restricted inference. National Science Foundation Research Grants and NSA research grants.

	Lawrence Shepp
	Professor of Statistics and Board of Governors Professor, Ph.D. Princeton
	Hill 580
	Email: shepp stat rutgers edu
	Major research interests: Mathematical models in economics and finance, pure and applied probability, tomography and medical imaging. Member National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Science.

	Kesar Singh
	Professor, Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute
	Hill 567
	Email: kesar stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in nonparametric statistics, asymptotics, large deviations. Resampling procedures: Bootstrap and Jackknife, Notions of data depth, Angular data, Confidence distributions, Mathematical finance. National Science Foundation Grant. Fellow, IMS. Elected Member of International Statistical Institute.

	William Edward Strawderman
	Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers
	Hill 561
	Email: straw stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in decision theory, Bayesian analysis, multivariate statistics. Operations research and applied statistics analyst, Bell Telephone Laboratories. National Science Foundation Grants for Research. Assoc. Ed. IMS Lecture Note Series, Assoc. Ed. JASA, Former Assoc. Ed. Annals of Statistics, Member of Council IMS, Former President Northern N.J. Chapter of ASA. Adjunct Professor, UMDNJ. Fellow ASA, IMS.

	Zhiqiang Tan
	Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago
	Hill 459
	Email:
	Research interests:

	David E. Tyler
	Professor, Ph.D. Princeton
	Hill 463
	Email: dtyler stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in multivariate analysis, robust statistics, directional data, computer vision and time series. NSF Grant for research in robust multivariate statistics. Associate Editor, J. Royal Statistical Society B, J. Statistical Planning and Inference. Fellow, IMS.

	Minge Xie
	Associate Professor and Director, Office of Statistical Consulting, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Hill 565
	Email: mxie stat rutgers edu
	Teaching and research in longitudinal data analysis, modeling and statistical inference, with applications to biomedical sciences, social sciences and industries.

	Cun-Hui Zhang
	Professor, Ph.D. Columbia
	Hill 569
	Email: czhang stat rutgers edu
	Empirical Bayes methods, functional MRI, network data, survival analysis, statistical inference and probability theory. Fellow, IMS.

	Tong Zhang
	Associate Professor, Ph.D. Stanford (Computer Science)
	Hill 457
	Email: tongz rci rutgers edu
	Research interests: Machine learning, data mining.

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Staff

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	Graduate/Undergraduate Secretary
	Hill 501, Tel 732-445-2693, Fax 732-445-3428

	Myrna Tengco
	Administrator
	Hill 501, Tel 732-445-2691, Fax 732-445-3428
	Email: mtengco stat rutgers edu

	Mayra Howell
	Administrative Assistant
	Hill 479, Tel 732-445-2696
	Email: mayrah stat rutgers edu

	Marcy Collins
	Administrative Assistant
	Hill 573, Tel 732-445-2694
	Email: collins stat rutgers edu

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	Systems Administrator
	Hill 476, Tel 732-445-2697