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Chris Volinsky, Director Modeling graph and network data, graph matching; statistical computation and visualization; data mining; Bayesian methodology; Bayesian model averaging; baseball analysis (sabermetrics).

Members of the Statistics Research Department

Rick Becker Visualization, statistical computing, graphics; co-inventor of the S language.

Suhrid Balakrishnan Machine learning and knowledge discovery. Currently studying latent variable models with application to collaborative filtering problems.

Bob Bell Statistical inference for data from complex samples, probabilistic record linkage, machine learning methods, robust estimation.

Simon Byers

Sumit Chopra Machine learning, pattern recognition, learning and inference algorithms for large data sets.

Tamraparni Dasu Nonparametric methods that are robust and easily implementable on large multivariate data; data streams; data quality: co-author of Exploratory Data Mining and Data Quality.

Ji-Meng Loh Spatial statistics; bootstrap; anomaly detection.

DeDe Paul Consumer behavior modeling; data mining support for marketing; measuring consumer word-of-mouth impacts.

David Poole Computer-intensive statistical procedures, capture-recapture methods, analysis of call detail for traffic engineering purposes, statistical use of simulation models, particularly population dynamics models for marine mammals.

Vaidyanathan (Ram) Ramaswami Applied probability, algorithmic methods, performance analysis and queueing theory, network monitoring algorithms, internet performance.

Kenny Shirley Bayesian modeling, multilevel models, hidden Markov models, and time series models

Debby Swayne Direct manipulation data visualization software and methods; co-developer of xgobi and of the newer ggobi.

Simon Urbanek Statistical computing, data visualization, interactive analysis of statistical forests (KLIMT); co-developer of iPlots; member of the R core development team.

Allan Wilks Statistical computing, computational geometry, graphics languages, visualization, network data analysis; co-developer of S.

Visitors and Colleagues in Other Departments

John Chambers Statistical computing and languages; co-developer of S and member of the R core development team; author of Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language.

Richard Drechsler Data visualization, scripting languages; co-creator of the YOIX language.

Colin Goodall Signatures, models, visualization, and computational systems for telecommunications usage/fraud and for health care outcomes: real-time alerting and reporting. Statistical analysis of shape. Data mining. Robust and exploratory data analysis

Patrick Haffner Machine learning, kernel machines, speech and language understanding, OCR and document image processing and compression.

Yifan Hu Optimization, graph drawing and network analysis, sparse linear algebra and parallel computing.

Walter Willinger Statistical analysis and visualization of large sets of network traffic data, probabilistic and statistical aspects of long-range dependent processes and heavy-tailed distributions, with applications to telecommunications and economics.

Alumni with long and successful careers in our Lab

Deepak Agarwal	Yahoo Research
Andreas Buja	The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Corinna Cortes	Google Labs
Bill DuMouchel	Lincoln Technologies
Trevor Hastie	Stanford University
Yehuda Koren	Yahoo Research
Colin Mallows
Daryl Pregibon	Google Labs

Past visitors

Daniel Asimov
Sid Dalal	Rand Corporation
Shawndra Hill	The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Heike Hofmann	Iowa State University
Alan MacEachren	Penn State
Nandini Raghavan	Johnson & Johnson
Matt Schonlau	The Rand Corporation
Werner Stuetzle	The University of Washington, Seattle
Martin Theus	The University of Augsburg

Past summer students

Milena Banjevic	Merrill Lynch
Zach Cox	Charles River Analytics
Alan Gous	Cariden Technologies
Carrie Grimes	Google
Giles Hooker	Cornell
Valerie Hyde	IBM
Rafal Kustra	University of Toronto
Dongyu Lin	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Minka	Microsoft
Jen Neville	Purdue
Clayton Noll	Harvard
Susan Paddock	RAND
Steven Scott	Google
Eric Vance	Duke
Claudia Tebaldi	University of British Columbia
Casey Wolos	Harvard
Gina Maria Pomann	NC State
Anoushka Anand	U of Illinois
Piotr Mirowski	Bell Labs
Amitabha Ghosh	University of Southern California; Princeton University



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