Faculty

DEAN C. ADAMS

Associate Professor.  (Courtesy appointment with the Department of Statistics). Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, 1999, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 
Interests:  Quantitative biology and biostatistics, statistical shape analysis (morphometrics), ecology and evolutionary biology. 
Office: 241 Bessey Hall (Ph: 294-3834)

YASUO AMEMIYA

Professor. (Collaborator:  Statistical Analysis and Forecasting, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center )
Ph.D., 1982, Iowa State University (Statistics)
Interests:  Multivariate analysis, latent variable modeling, forecasting, longitudinal data analysis, statistical method development for problems in business, economics, finance, marketing behavioral/health sciences, IT systems development, monitoring and planning. 

KRISHNA ATHREYA

Professor; Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ph.D., 1967, Stanford. 

Interests:  Probability, stochastic processes, stochastic modeling, mathematical statistics.

Office: 315A Snedecor (Ph: 294-2617)

             416C  Carver    (Ph: 294-5864)

THEODORE B. BAILEY

Professor. Ph.D., 1972, Minnesota . 

Interests:  Applied statistics, quantitative genetics, biotechnology.

Office: 121 Snedecor (Ph: 294-8253)

JURI BHATTACHARYYA

Temporary Instructor. M. Sc., 1984, University of Western Ontario , Canada .

Interests: Applied Statistics, Spatial Time-series, Survey.

Office: 312 Snedecor (Ph: 294-2463)

DOUGLAS G. BONETT

Professor. Ph.D., 1983, UCLA. 

Interests:  Psychometrics and biostatistics. 

Office: 210E Snedecor (Ph: 294-2423)

VOLKER BRENDEL

Professor.  (Courtesy appointment with the Department of Statistics). Ph.D., Life Sciences, 1986, The Weizmann Institute of Science , Israel . 

Interests:   Bioinformatics, Computational Molecular Biology, Plant Genetics.

Office: 2112 Molicular Biology (Ph: 294-9884)

PETRUTZA C. CARAGEA

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Statistics, 2003, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Interests: Spatial statistics, mathematical statistics, time series, environmental statistics.

Office: 314 Snedecor (Ph: 294-5582)

ALICIA L. CARRIQUIRY

Professor. Ph.D., 1989, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Linear models, Bayesian statistics, general methods.

Office: 102D Snedecor (Ph: 294-7782)

SONG XI CHEN

Professor. Ph.D., 1993, Australian National University .

Interests: Empirical likelihood, financial econometrics, statistical inference for various risk measures, testing of diffusion models, smoothing methods for curve estimation, surveys: line transect and capture-recapture.

Office: 315B Snedecor (Ph: 294-2729)

DIANNE COOK

Professor. Ph.D., 1993, Rutgers University . 

Interests:  Dynamic graphics, exploratory data analysis, multivariate methods, statistical computing. 

Office: 325 Snedecor (Ph: 294-8865)

PHILIP DIXON

Professor. Ph.D., 1986, Cornell. 

Interests:  Ecological and environmental statistics, methods of trend analysis, censored data and spatial statistics. 

Office: 120 Snedecor (Ph: 294-2142)

KARIN DORMAN

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2001. University of California at Los Angeles . 

Interests:  Biomathematics, computational biology, stochastic modeling, bioinformatics.

Office: 210C Snedecor (Ph: 294-8392)

Email: Available from her website

RICHARD EVANS

Assistant Professor.  (Courtesy appointment with the Department of Statistics), Ph.D., Mathematics and Statistics, 1997, SUNY 
Interests:  Bayesian inference, screening, biometry, biostatistics. 
Office: 1710 Veterinary Medicine (Ph: 294-3836)

AMY G. FROELICH

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2000, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign 

Interests:  Psychometrics, statistical issues in educational measurement, non-parametric estimation methods, bootstrap methods, statistics education.

Office: 324 Snedecor (Ph: 294-5584)

ULRIKE GENSCHEL ulrike@iastate.edu

Lecturer. Ph.D., 2005, University of Dortmund, Germany

Interests:  Robust Statistics, dimension reduction procedures, statistics education.

Office: 326 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7766)

ARKA GHOSH

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2005, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill

Interests:  Applied Probability, Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Statistics.

Office: 303 Snedecor, (Ph: 294-2240)

HEIKE HOFMANN

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2000, Augsburg , Germany .

Interests:  Graphical data analysis, categorical data, interactive graphical systems.

Office: 122 Snedecor (Ph: 294-8948)

DEAN L. ISAACSON

Professor. Ph.D., 1968, Minnesota . 

Interests:  Probability and stochastic processes. 

Office: 102C Snedecor (Ph: 294-7736)

MARK S. KAISER

Professor. Ph.D., 1990, Missouri-Columbia. 

Interests:  Statistical estimation methods, hierarchical modeling techniques. 

Office: 102E Snedecor (Ph: 294-8871)

KENNETH J. KOEHLER

Chair; Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1977, Minnesota . 

Interests:  Statistical methods, contingency tables, multivariate methods.

Office: 102F Snedecor (Ph: 294-4181)

SOUMENDRA N. LAHIRI (On Leave 2006-2007 Academic Year)

Professor. Ph.D., 1989, Michigan State . 

Interests:  Resampling methods, asymptotic expansion, nonparametric curve estimation, spatial statistics.

Office: 315E Snedecor (Ph: 294-2271)

MIKE LARSEN

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 1996, Harvard.

Interests: Survey sampling, missing data problems, mixture and latent class models, Bayesian modeling, small area estimation, administrative records and record linkage.

Office: 220 Snedecor (Ph: 294-5189)

PENG LIU

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2006, Cornell University.

Interests: Statistical genomics, bioinformatics, Bayesian statistics, statistical inference for high-dimensional data, biostatistics.

Office: 111A Snedecor (Ph: 294-7806)

FREDERICK O. LORENZ

Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1980, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Statistical methods, sociological research methods.

Office: 210B Snedecor (Ph: 294-8196)

             310 East (Ph: 294-8314)

TAPS MAITI

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1996, India .

Interests: Survey Sampling, Small Area Estimation, Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods, Social and Environmental Statistics, Biostatistics, Statistical Methods for Gene Expression Data.

Office: 221 Snedecor (Ph: 294-3225)

RANJAN MAITRA

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1996, University of Washington .

Interests: Statistical computing, spatial statistics and image analysis, multivariate methods, analysis of large datasets.

Office: 123 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7757)

MERVYN G. MARASINGHE

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1980, Kansas State . 

Interests:  Statistical computing, linear models, graphical statistics. 

Office: 118-2 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7774)

WILLIAM Q. MEEKER, JR.

Professor; Distinquished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ph.D., 1975, Union College . 

Interests:  Industrial statistics, reliability, statistical computing.

Office: 304C Snedecor (Ph: 294-5336)

MAX MORRIS

Professor. Ph.D., 1977, Virginia Tech. 

Interests:  Experimental design, spatial sampling and modeling, change detection techniques, and the design and analysis of computer experiments.

Office: 304B Snedecor (Ph: 294-2775)

DAN NETTLETON

Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1996, Iowa .

Interests:  Statistical genetics, order restricted inference, categorical data analysis.

Office: 111A Snedecor (Ph: 294-7754)

DAN NORDMAN dnordman@iastate.edu

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2002, Iowa . State

Interests:  Empirical Likelihood, Resampling, Time Series, Spatial Statistics.

Office: 124 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7777)

SARAH M. NUSSER

Professor.
Ph.D., 1990, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Survey sampling, general methods. 

Office: 222 Snedecor (Ph: 294-9773)

JEAN-DIDIER OPSOMER

Professor; Director, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (CSSM). Ph.D., 1995, Cornell. 

Interests:  Nonparametric regression, survey sampling, environmental statistics.

Office: 218 Snedecor (Ph: 294-9773)

CARL W. ROBERTS (On Leave 2006-2007 Academic Year)

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1983, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 

Interests:  Statistical methods, sociology of culture, sociology of knowledge, text analysis, mass communications.

Office: 210D Snedecor (Ph: 294-8929)

DERRICK ROLLINS

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1990, Ohio State . 

Interests:  Statistical process control, gross error detection, on-line process control, artificial neural networks, stochastic modeling of powder mixtures, mathematical modeling of grain dryers. 

Office: 304F Snedecor (Ph: 294-8192)

            1035 Sweeney (Ph: 294-5516)

DANIEL J. SARGENT

Assistant Professor. (Collaborator:  Cancer Center Statistics, Mayo Clinic).

Ph.D., 1996, University of Minnesota . 

MACK C. SHELLEY II

Professor; University Professor; Director of RISE. Ph.D., 1977, Wisconsin . 

Interests:  Social statistics, applied multivariate statistics, education research and evaluation, public policy, times series and forecasting.

Office: 323 Snedecor (Ph: 294-8346)

             E005A L'marcino (Ph: 294-9282)

PETER J. SHERMAN

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1984, Wisconsin . 

Interests:  Estimation theory, random processes, dynamical systems.

Office: 2339 Howe (Ph: 294-0091)

JEFF A. SLOAN

Assistant Professor. (Collaborator:  Cancer Center Statistics, Mayo Clinic).

Ph.D., 1991, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg . 

W. ROBERT STEPHENSON

Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1979, University of Connecticut . 

Interests: Statistical process/quality control, statistics education, nonparametric statistics.

Office: 327 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7805)

TERRY M. THERNEAU

Professor. (Collaborator:  Mayo Clinic).

Ph.D., 1983, Stanford University . 

STEPHEN B. VARDEMAN

Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1975, Michigan State . 

Interests:  Engineering statistics, applied stochastic control, statistical process control, general theory. 

Office: 304D Snedecor (Ph: 294-2535)

HUAIQING WU

Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1997, Michigan .

Interests:  Measurement error, industrial statistics, experimental design, linear models.

Office: 304A Snedecor (Ph: 294-8949)

CINDY YUcindyyu@iastate.edu

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2005, Cornell University

Interests: Survey Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference of Stochastic Processes, Econometrics, Mathematical Finance.

Office: 216A Snedecor (Ph: 294-3319)

Emeritus Faculty

DAVID F. COX

Emeritus Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1959, Iowa State . 

Interests:   General methods.

C. PHILIP COX 

Emeritus Professor. M.A., 1947, Oxford . 

Interests:  Biometry and biostatistics, general theory, experimental design, general methods.

Office: 113 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7765)

H. A. DAVID 

Emeritus Professor; Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ph.D., 1953, London . 

Interests:  Order statistics, history of statistics.

Office: 111C Snedecor (Ph: 294-7749)

HERBERT T. DAVID

Emeritus Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1960, Chicago.

Interests:  General theory, engineering statistics, operations research.

WAYNE A. FULLER

Emeritus Professor; Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ph.D., 1959, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Time series, measurement error, survey sampling, econometric statistics.

Office: 202B Snedecor (Ph: 294-9773)

RICHARD GROENEVELD

Emeritus Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1967, Boston University . 

Interests:  Probability models, distribution theory. 

DAVID A. HARVILLE

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1965, Cornell University . 

Interests:  Linear models, experimental design, statistics in sports and competition.

ROY D. HICKMAN 

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1967, Iowa State . 

Interests:  General methods, econometrics, sample survey methodology

PAUL N. HINZ

Emeritus Professor; University Professor. Ph.D., 1967, Wisconsin .

Interests:   General methods, experimental design. 

DONALD K. HOTCHKISS 

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1960, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Biometry and biostatistics, experimental design, general methods. 

WILLIAM J. KENNEDY

Professor. Ph.D., 1969, Iowa State . 

Interests:  Statistical computing, general methods.

Office: 113 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7765)

EDWARD POLLAK

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1964, Columbia . 

Interests:  Genetic statistics, probability, stochastic processes, molecular biology. 

Office: 113 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7765)

ROBERT F. STRAHAN 

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1960, Michigan State . 

Interests:  Nonparametric statistics, general theory, sampling.

Office: 315F Snedecor (Ph: 294-2729)

SHASHI SUKHATME

Emeritus Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1960, Michigan State . 

Interests:  Nonparametric statistics, general theory, sampling.

Office: 113 Snedecor (Ph: 294-7765)

LEROY WOLINS

Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., 1956, Ohio .

Interests:  Psychometric statistics.