Administration
Here are found the committees for both the Department and Graduate Program in Statistics.
Committees of the Department of Statistics, 2024-25
Department Chair: Jiming Jiang
Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Affairs: Ethan Anderes
Vice-Chair for Graduate Affairs: Jie Peng
Director of Data Science Major: Alexander Aue
Faculty Teaching Evaluations Committee
- Ethan Anderes (chair)
- Fushing Hsieh
- Staff Liaison: Kim McMullen & Jeff Katz
Infrastructure Committee: Computing, Information, Library
- Krishna Balasubramanian (Chair)
- Xiucai Ding
- Thomas Lee
- Staff Liaison: Nehad Ismail
Undergraduate Matters: Advising, Curriculum, Awards
- Ethan Anderes (Vice Chair Undergraduate Affairs)
- Alex Aue
- Fushing Hsieh
- Bala Rajaratnam
- Staff Liaison: Kim McMullen & Jeff Katz
TA Committee: Assignments, Mentoring, Supervision
- Jie Peng (Chair & TA Supervisor)
- Ethan Anderes
- Ricardo Masini
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
Faculty Awards and Nominations Committee
- Jiming Jiang (Chair)
- Prabir Burman
- Jane-Ling Wang
Personnel Action Committee
- TBD
- Staff Liaison: Pete Scully
Faculty Search (for Joint Position with Linguistics)
- Wolfgang Polonik (Chair)
- Spencer Frei
- Can Le
- Staff Liaison: Pete Scully
Visiting Assistant Professor and Lecturer Committee
- Bala Rajaratnam (Chair)
- Fushing Hsieh
- Miles Lopes
- Staff Liaison: Pete Scully
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
- Wolfgang Polonik (Chair)
- Prabir Burman
- Jairo Fúquene Patiño
- Xiao Hui Tai
- Jie Peng
- Maxime Pouokam
- JoAnna Whitener
- Staff Liaisons: Amy McFarland (graduate program), Jeff Katz, Viviana Gonzalez (undergraduate program)
- Liaison with L&S DEI Committee: Olga Rodriguez
Laboratory for High-Dimensional Data Analysis Visitor Program
- Wolfgang Polonik (chair)
- Hans-Georg Müller
- Duncan Temple Lang
- Staff Liaison: Pete Scully
Publicity and Event Planning: Newsletter, fundraising
- Chris Drake (Chair)
- Shizhe Chen
- Xiucai Ding
- Jiming Jiang
- Mina Karzand
- Hans-Georg Müller
- Staff Liaisons: Pete Scully & Andi Carr
Statistical Laboratory
- Prabir Burman (Director)
- Andrew Blandino (Senior Statistician)
- Staff Liaisons: Daniel Chang & Olga Rodriguez
Representatives to Academic Senate Assembly
- Hans-Georg Müller (representative) to June 30, 2025
- Alexander Aue (alternate) to June 30, 2025
- Ethan Anderes (alternate) to June 30, 2023
Representatives to College Assembly L&S
- Ethan Anderes (representative) to June 30, 2025
- Mina Karzand (representative) to June 30, 2025
- Miles Lopes(representative) to June 30, 2025
- Shizhe Chen (alternate) to June 30, 2025
Graduate Program in Statistics Committees, 2024-25
Program Chair: Jiming Jiang
Vice-Chair for Graduate Affairs: Jie Peng
GPS Executive Committee
Ballot for 24-25 Committee to be conducted.
- Jiming Jiang (Program Chair)
- Prabir Burman (to June 30, 2025; first term)
- Miles Lopes (to June 30, 2024; second term)
- Jie Peng (to June 30, 2024; first term)
Admissions Committee
- Wolfgang Polonik (Admissions Chair) - to June 30, 2025
- PhD Admissions:
- Wolfgang Polonik (Chair)
- Prabir Burman
- Xiucai Ding
- Qijia Jiang
- Hans-Georg Müller
- Dogyoon Song
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
- MS Admissions
- Jie Peng (Chair)
- Shizhe Chen
- Can Le
- Xiaodong Li
- Duncan Temple Lang
- Jane-Ling Wang
- Staff Liaison: Amy McFarland
Graduate Advising Committee
effective 9/1/24
- PhD Advising, including Awards
- Jie Peng (Chair & Primary PhD Adviser) - to August 31, 2025
- Mina Karzand - to August 31, 2025
- Xiaodong Li - to August 31, 2025
- Hans-Georg Müller - to August 31, 2025
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
- MS Advising:
- Miles Lopes (MS Adviser) - to August 31, 2025
- Alexander Aue - to August 31, 2025
- Chris Drake - to August 31, 2025
- Xiao Hui Tai - to August 31, 2025
- Staff Liaison: Amy McFarland
Membership Committee
- Jane-Ling Wang (Chair)
- Fushing Hsieh
- Thomas Lee
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee
- Hans-Georg Müller (Chair)
- Hao Chen
- Chris Drake
- Can Le
- Bala Rajaratnam
- Student Representative: TBD
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
Student GSA Representatives
- TBD
Examinations Committees
Written M.S. Comprehensive Exam Committee (March 2025):
- Mina Karzand (200A section), Exam Chair
- Can Le (200B section)
- Jie Peng (206 section)
- Shizhe Chen (207 section)
- Staff Liaison: Amy McFarland
Written Ph.D. Pre-Qualifying Exam Committees (March 2025):
- Ethan Anderes (231A section), Exam Chair
- Wolfgang Polonik (231B section)
- Xiaodong Li (232A section)
- Jiming Jiang (232B section)
- Staff Liaison: Andi Carr
Committees effective 9/1/2024