Faculty
The Statistics Department Faculty members are listed here. Other department members include, Researchers, Graduate Students, and Staff.
Department Faculty
Morgane Austern
maustern@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor
Research Interests: Applied Probability, Learning on structured data, Machine learning theory, High dimensional statistics, Information and ergodic theory
Joseph K. Blitzstein
blitz@fas.harvard.eduProfessor 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...
Mark E. Glickman
glickman@stat.harvard.eduSenior 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
Kosuke Imai
Professor of Government and Statistics
Research Interests: Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Survey Research, Applied Bayesian Statistics, Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences
Lucas Janson
ljanson@fas.harvard.edu(He / him / his)
Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: High-dimensional inference, Statistical machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Genomics, Robotics
Sham Kakade
sham@seas.harvard.edu(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
Tracy Ke
zke@fas.harvard.eduAssociate Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: High-dimensional statistics, Machine learning, Social network analysis, Text mining, Bioinformatics and statistical genetics
Samuel Kou
kou@stat.harvard.eduAbbott 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...
Xihong Lin
xlin@hsph.harvard.eduStatistics 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...
Xiao-Li Meng
xlmeng@fas.harvard.eduWhipple 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...
Susan Murphy
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
Natesh S. Pillai
pillai@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Statistics
Research Interests: Interface of applied probability and statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, Statistics inference for high dimensional problems
Kevin Rader
rader@stat.harvard.eduSenior Preceptor in Statistics,
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests: Sports Analytics, Biomedical Applications, Statistical Pedagogy, Survival Analysis, Complex Surveys, Nonparametric Methods
Mark Sellke
msellke@fas.harvard.edu(He / him / his)
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: Spin glasses, Machine learning theory, High-dimensional statistics
Subhabrata Sen
subhabratasen@fas.harvard.eduAssociate Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: Applied Probability, Statistics of Networks, Signal Detection
Neil Shephard
shephard@fas.harvard.eduFrank 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...
Pragya Sur
pragya@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning Theory, Statistical Foundations of AI, Causal Inference in High Dimensions
Julie Vu
julievu@g.harvard.eduCurriculum/Pedagogy Specialist
Research Interests Statistics Education, Statistical Genetics, Genetic Association Studies
James Xenakis
jxenakis@fas.harvard.edu(He/Him/His)
Lecturer in Statistics
Research Interests: Statistics pedagogy, Statistical genetics, Compositional data analysis
Alexander Young
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
Affiliated Faculty
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...
Cynthia Dwork
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School
Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Yue Lu
yuelu@seas.harvard.eduGordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics
Research Interests Random Matrix Theory, High-dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning Theory, Signal Processing
Alex Luedtke
luedtke@hms.harvard.eduProfessor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: Causal inference, Machine learning, Semiparametrics, Automated estimation
Luke Miratrix
lmiratrix@g.harvard.eduHe/him/his
Professor of Education (GSE)
Research Interests: Causal inference, Randomized experiments, Text analysis, Simulation design
Giovanni Parmigiani
gp@jimmy.harvard.edu(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
Anna Seigal
aseigal@seas.harvard.edu(She / Her / Hers)
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at SEAS
Research Interests: Algebraic statistics, Tensors and multilinear algebra, Applied algebraic geometry
Jose Zubizarreta
zubizarreta@hcp.med.harvard.eduDepartment 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
Emeritus Faculty
Herman Chernoff
chernoff@stat.harvard.eduEmeritus 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...
David P. Harrington
davidharrington@g.harvard.eduEmeritus Professor of Statistics
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jun S. Liu
jliu@stat.harvard.eduEmeritus Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: Statistical missing data problems, Imputation methodology, Gibbs sampling, Markov structure, Image reconstruction, Bayesian methodology
Donald B. Rubin
rubin@stat.harvard.eduEmeritus 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...
