Department of Statistics

  • Research Interests: Biostatistics, disease modeling, application of machine learning and deep learning techniques to health data

  • Research Interests: Survey methods, longitudinal data analysis, bayesian learning, time series analysis, statistics for public policy

  • Research Interests: Statistical modeling, biostatistics, financial math

  • Advisor: Ben Seiyon Lee | Research Interests: Statistical modeling, computational statistics, uncertainty quantification

  • Advisor: Lily Wang, Martin P. Slawski | Research Interests: Functional data analysis, dataset shift, optimization, statistical modeling in clinical study

  • Research Interests: Statistical learning, Bayesian statistics

  • Research Interests: Causal inference, neuroimaging statistics, AI for science, interpretable machine learning, network data analysis

  • Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, MCMC methods, stochastic processes, statistical machine learning

  • September 28, 2025

    To foster new connections, the Department of Statistics hosts Fever Talks to introduce department faculty to students and the broader George Mason University community.

  • May 12, 2025

    Statistics PhD candidate Shenghao Ye is the first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a prestigious journal, revealing how Tibetan women have adapted to thrive and reproduce successfully in high-altitude environments.