Committees

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