# Faculty ![Faculty teaching](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/statistics-2/files/glickman_teach_1.jpg?itok=RYEPZaWa) The Statistics Department Faculty members are listed here. Other department members include, [**Researchers**](/researchers)**,** [**Graduate Students**](/graduate-students), and [**Staff**](/staff). Department Faculty Affiliated Faculty Emeritus Faculty ## Department Faculty [### Morgane Austern ](/people/morgane-austern) Assistant Professor Research Interests: Applied Probability, Learning on structured data, Machine learning theory, High dimensional statistics, Information and ergodic theory ![Morgane Austern](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/img-20210401-wa0022.jpg?itok=pns2UGy0) [### Joseph K. Blitzstein ](/people/joseph-k-blitzstein) Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Senior Director of Education Director of Undergraduate Studies Research Interests: Inference for network data, Foundational issues in Statistics and Data Science, Statistics Education Education Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, June 2006. M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2003. B.S. in... ![blitzstein](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/blitzstein_1_0.jpg?itok=s4tNmHtI) [### Mark E. Glickman ](http://www.glicko.net/) Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Director of Master's Study, Joint Director of Graduate Studies Research Interests: Statistical methods in games and sports, Applications to health services research; Sports Analytics Lab ![Glickman](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/glickman_resize.jpg?itok=piFuoiLY) [### Kosuke Imai ](/people/kosuke-imai)Professor of Government and Statistics Research Interests: Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Survey Research, Applied Bayesian Statistics, Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences ![Kosuke Imai](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/imaik-websiteresized-08-16-2022_0.jpg?itok=Q4anBggD) [### Lucas Janson ](http://lucasjanson.fas.harvard.edu/) (He / him / his) Professor of Statistics Research Interests: High-dimensional inference, Statistical machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Genomics, Robotics ![Lucas Janson](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Janson-reseized-directory.JPG?itok=8rJ6ms9e) [### Sham Kakade ](/people/sham-kakade) (He, him, his) Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Statistics Research Interests: Machine Learning and AI Theory, Reinforcement learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics ![Kakade](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/rsz_5photo_kakade.jpg?itok=DtQhXOTB) [### Tracy Ke ](/people/tracy-ke) Associate Professor of Statistics Research Interests: High-dimensional statistics, Machine learning, Social network analysis, Text mining, Bioinformatics and statistical genetics ![Tracy Ke ](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/ke-tracy-profile-resized.jpg?itok=VSmlApFJ) [### Samuel Kou ](/people/samuel-kou) Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Stochastic inference in single molecule biophysics, chemistry and biology, Bayesian inference of stochastic models, Nonparametric methods, model selection and empirical Bayes, Monte Carlo methods, Economic and financial modeling... ![Kou](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/rsz_kou.jpg?itok=J_rfULND) [### Xihong Lin ](/people/xihong-lin) Statistics Department Chair, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biostatistics: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health National Academy of Sciences Member, National Academy of Medicine Member Research Interests: Scalable statistical inference for big data, Statistical Machine Learning and AI, Integrative data analysis, Causal inference and mediation analysis, Statistical genetics and genomics, Analysis of complex observational data... ![Xihong Lin](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/lin-2015.jpg?itok=XIfNGAf8) [### Xiao-Li Meng ](/people/xiao-li-meng) Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Statistical theory and principles for data science, Philosophical and foundational issues in statistics, Statistical computing and computational statistics, Signal extractions and uncertainty assessments Statistical Theory and... ![Xiao-Li Meng](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/meng.jpg?itok=JX48GnwB) [### Susan Murphy ](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~samurphy)Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science, Associate Faculty, Kempner Institute, Harvard University Joint Director of Graduate Studies Research Interests: Mobile health (mhealth), Reinforcement learning (RL), Sequential experimentation, Causal inference ![Susan Murphy](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Susan%20Murphy_png.png?itok=fSO2Yv99) [### Natesh S. Pillai ](https://nateshpillai.com/) Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Interface of applied probability and statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, Statistics inference for high dimensional problems ![Natesh Pillai](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/pillai.jpg?itok=_IcxfZlv) [### Kevin Rader ](/people/kevin-rader) Senior Preceptor in Statistics, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Research Interests: Sports Analytics, Biomedical Applications, Statistical Pedagogy, Survival Analysis, Complex Surveys, Nonparametric Methods ![Kevin Rader](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/rader.jpg?itok=yqt7jg0I) [### Mark Sellke ](/people/mark-sellke) (He / him / his) Assistant Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Spin glasses, Machine learning theory, High-dimensional statistics ![Mark Sellke](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Mark%20Sellke_updated%20photo.png?itok=TflsjeUh) [### Subhabrata Sen ](/people/subhabrata-sen) Associate Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Applied Probability, Statistics of Networks, Signal Detection ![Subhabrata Sen](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/sen_1.jpg?itok=lWQXClIw) [### Neil Shephard ](https://scholar.harvard.edu/shephard) Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science Research Interests: Econometrics, Bayesian inference, Bayesian computation, Stochastic processes, Finance Education Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1990. M.Sc. in Statistics, London School of Economics, June 1987. B.A. in Economics and Statistics, York... ![Neil Shephard](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/shephard.jpg?itok=ozGSrtxI) [### Pragya Sur ](/people/pragya-sur-0) Assistant Professor of Statistics Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning Theory, Statistical Foundations of AI, Causal Inference in High Dimensions ![Pragya Sur](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/2025Pragya_Headshot%203_updated.jpg?itok=VGj5OkK3) [### Julie Vu ](/people/julie-vu) Curriculum/Pedagogy Specialist Research Interests Statistics Education, Statistical Genetics, Genetic Association Studies ![Julie Vu](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/JulieVu_updated%20headshot.png?itok=uJE_s92P) [### James Xenakis ](/people/james-xenakis) (He/Him/His) Lecturer in Statistics Research Interests: Statistics pedagogy, Statistical genetics, Compositional data analysis ![James Xenakis Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/xenakiswebsite3.jpg?itok=fl_-T5Y5) [### Alexander Young ](/people/alexander-young) [alexander\_young@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:alexander_young@fas.harvard.edu)(He / him / his) Undergraduate Advisor and Lecturer Research Interests: Entropy and Mutual Information estimation and applications, Mathematical and statistical modeling of complex systems, Scalable MCMC algorithms, UQ for Mathetmatical Models of nonlinear and multiscale phenomena, Applied Probability ![Alexander Young](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/YoungA-resized-directory.JPG?itok=im99UVBF) ## Affiliated Faculty [### Iavor Bojinov ](/people/iavor-bojinov)Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Research Interests: Experimentation and Causality Iavor Bojinov's research interest is at the interface of causal inference, experimental design, and large-scale computing with the overall goal of democratizing statistical methods in order to help firms... ![Iavor Bojiinov](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/BojinovI-DirectoryResized-08-16-2022.jpg?itok=Nj2GKqmr) [### Cynthia Dwork ](/people/cynthia-dwork)Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research ![Cynthia Dwork](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/cynthia-dwork_photo-by-kevin-grady_373px.jpg?itok=vFGgCE3-) [### Yue Lu ](/people/yue-lu) Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics Research Interests Random Matrix Theory, High-dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning Theory, Signal Processing ![Yue Lu](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Yue%20Lu.png?itok=LL_91R_U) [### Alex Luedtke ](/people/alex-luedtke-0) Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Research Interests: Causal inference, Machine learning, Semiparametrics, Automated estimation ![Alex Luedtke](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/AlexLeudtke%20Headshot.png?itok=1p4jUBSB) [### Luke Miratrix ](/people/luke-miratrix) He/him/his Professor of Education (GSE) Research Interests: Causal inference, Randomized experiments, Text analysis, Simulation design ![Luke Miratrix](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Miratrix-resized-directory-9-8-2023.jpg?itok=ijK4gzEJ) [### Giovanni Parmigiani ](/people/giovanni-parmigiani) (He / him / his) Professor of Biostatistics Research Interests: Bayesian decision theory Multi-study statistical methods Machine learning for precision prevention and treatment in health care Statistical techniques in cancer biology ![Giovanni Parmigiani](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/screenshot_14.png?itok=7_djOscP) [### Anna Seigal ](/people/anna-seigal) (She / Her / Hers) Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at SEAS Research Interests: Algebraic statistics, Tensors and multilinear algebra, Applied algebraic geometry ![Anna Seigal](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/seigal-resized.jpg?itok=QyPgM63o) [### Jose Zubizarreta ](/people/jose-zubizarreta) Department Affiliate, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Research Interests: Causal inference Design and analysis of experiments Design and analysis of observational studies Health outcomes research Public policy ![Jose Zubizarreta](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Zubizarreta%2C%20Jose-resized-1-15-2025.jpg?itok=9gjyBjej) ## Emeritus Faculty [### Herman Chernoff ](/people/herman-chernoff) Emeritus Professor of Statistics Professor Chernoff is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at MIT and of Statistics at Harvard University. His major fields of research have been in large Sample Theory, Optimal Design of Experiments, Sequential Analysis, and Sequential Design of... ![Herman Chernoff](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/statistics-2/files/chernoff.jpg?itok=Arqt3y0t) [### David P. Harrington ](/people/david-p-harrington) Emeritus Professor of Statistics Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ![David Harrington](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/David%20Harrington.png?itok=tq5a-bUo) [### Jun S. Liu ](/people/jun-s-liu) Emeritus Professor of Statistics Research Interests: Statistical missing data problems, Imputation methodology, Gibbs sampling, Markov structure, Image reconstruction, Bayesian methodology ![Jun Liu](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Jun%20Liu_Poster%20Directory.png?itok=Ryni1MUI) [### Donald B. Rubin ](/people/donald-b-rubin) Emeritus Professor of Statistics Research Interests Causal inference in experiments and observational studies. Inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and in missing data problems. Application of Bayesian and empirical Bayesian techniques. Developing and applying statistical models... ![Don Rubin](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Don%20Rubin.png?itok=2IdAxGDU)