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Professors

Erdogan Gunel , Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo)
Bayesian inference, Biostatistics, Categorical data analysis.
Email: egunel@stat.wvu.edu

E. James Harner , Ph.D. (Cornell U.) Chair.
Dynamic graphics, Statistical computing and modeling, Statistical education.
Phone: 304/293-3607 x1051
Email: jharner@stat.wvu.edu

William V. Thayne, Ph.D. (U. Ill.) Emeritus.
Experimental design, Statistical genetics, Regression analysis.
Email: wthayne@stat.wvu.edu

Edwin C. Townsend, Ph.D. (Cornell U.) Emeritus.
Experimental design, Regression analysis.

Stanley Wearden , Ph.D. (Cornell U.) Emeritus.
Biostatistics, Statistical genetics, Population biology.
Email: swearden@stat.wvu.edu

Associate Professors

Daniel M. Chilko , M.S. (Rutgers U.). Emeritus.
Statistical computing, Computer graphics.
Email: dchilko@stat.wvu.edu

Gerald R. Hobbs, Jr. , Ph.D. (Kansas St. U.).
Biostatistics, Nonparametric statistics, Regression analysis.
Email: ghobbs@stat.wvu.edu

Robert Mnatsakanov , Ph.D. (Moscow Inst. Electr. & Math.)
Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Inverse problems, Mixture models, Change-set problems.
Email: rmnatsak@stat.wvu.edu

Adjunct Associate Professor

Michael E. Andrew, Ph.D. (U. of Wyoming).
Design and analysis of experiments, Epidemiological analysis, Multiple logistic regression, Survival analysis methods.

Assistant Professors

Mark Culp, Ph.D. (U. of Michigan)
Computational statistics, Semi-supervised learning, Ensemble algorithms, Parallel programming, Nonparametric statistics.
Email: mculp@stat.wvu.edu

Philip Turk, Ph.D. (Montana State U.)
Adaptive cluster sampling.
Email: pturk@stat.wvu.edu

Clinical Assistant Professors

Stacey Culp, Ph.D. (U. of Michigan)
Functional data analysis, Statistical consulting.
Email: sculp@stat.wvu.edu .

Huey Miin Lee, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins U.)
Bioinformatics, Statistical Education.
Email: hlee@stat.wvu.edu

Research Assistant Professor

Fekedulegn B. Desta , Ph.D. (WVU)
Categorical data analysis, Multivariate statistical methods, Nonlinear regression, Forest growth modeling, dendrochronology, SAS programming.
Email: fdesta@stat.wvu.edu

Lecturer

Sarah Quesen, M.P.H. (WVU)
Biostatistics, Health Policy, Statistical Education.
Email: squesen@stat.wvu.edu

Research Associates

Anthony A. Billings , M.S. (WVU); A.B.D. (CMU)
Statistical computing, Statistical modeling, Robust estimation, Nonlinear dynamic systems, Statistical education.
Email: abilling@stat.wvu.edu

Dajie Luo, M.S. (WVU)
Statistical computing, R development, Java development.
Email: dluo@stat.wvu.edu

Jun Tan , M.S. (WVU)
Statistical computing, Parallel computing, Oracle database design, Java development, Unix systems administration.
Email: jtan@stat.wvu.edu

Shengqiao Li , M.S. (WVU)
Statistical computing, SAS development, Java development
Email: shli@stat.wvu.edu

In Memory

Harshinder Singh , Ph.D. (Panjab U.)
Probabilistic Modeling of Molecular Vibrations, Applied Probability, Reliability and Software Reliability, Order Restricted Statistical Inference, Categorical Data Analysis.

George Seidel , Ph.D. (WVU)
Biostatistics, Population biology, Statistical consulting.