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Department

Dept of Statistics

probability, mathematical probability, statistical mechanics

Shirshendu Ganguly

Shirshendu Ganguly

Dept of Statistics

probability theory, statistical mechanics

Vadim Gorin with book "Probability" by Albert Shiryaev

Vadim Gorin

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

integrable probability, random matrices, asymptotic representation theory, 2d statistical mechanics, interacting particle systems, high-dimensional statistics

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

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Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Dept of Mathematics

mathematical analysis, probability, dynamical systems

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, probability theory, partial differential equations

Ilan Adler

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

mathematical programming, computational game theory, applied probability

NikitaZhivotovskiy

Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Dept of Statistics

mathematical statistics, applied probability, statistical learning theory

Thomas Courtade

Thomas Courtade

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang sitting in a chair working on laptop

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang

Dept of Philosophy

Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy

Michael Lindsey

Michael J. Lindsey

Dept of Mathematics

applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, probability, numerical analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo methods

Venkat Anantharam

Venkat Anantharam

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

game theory, applied probability, electrical engineering, communications, control, communication networks, error control coding

Yun S. Song

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, machine learning, applied probability and statistics, computational biology, computational genomics, human genetics

photographed in front of the blackboard in his office

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

Xin Guo

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

stochastic control and games, theory of machine learning and applications to medical and financial data analysis, applied probability and stochastic models

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences

Alistair Sinclair

Dept of Statistics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

algorithms, applied probability, statistics, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization

Steven N. Evans

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

large random combinatorial structures, random matrices, superprocesses & other measure-valued processes, probability on algebraic structures -particularly local fields, applications of stochastic processes to biodemography, mathematical finance, population genetics, phylogenetics & historical linguistics