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Georgie R. Baker
Senior Instructor (M.S. 1996, University of South Carolina)
Quality Control.
Graduate Coordinator and Assistant to the Chair.

Paramita Chakraborty
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2009, Michigan State University)
Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Differential Equations, Stochastic Modeling.

Don Edwards
Professor (Ph.D. 1981, Ohio State University)
Sampling, Response Surface Methodology, Measures of Inter-rater Agreement.

John M. Grego
Professor (Ph.D. 1989, Pennsylvania State University)
Robust Parametric Design, Semiparametric Mixture Models, and Statistical Consulting.
Department Chair.

Brian T. Habing
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Psychometrics - Item Response Theory, Scale Construction, Multivariate Statistics, and Educational Measurement.
Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Timothy E. Hanson
Professor (Ph.D. 2000, University of California at Davis)
Bayesian Statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Survival Analysis, Diagnostic Screening, Hierarchical Models, Nonparametric Priors.
Graduate Program Director.

Leslie Hendrix
Instructor (Ph.D. 2011, University of South Carolina)
Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistical Computing, Statistics Education.

David B. Hitchcock
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 2004, University of Florida)
Functional Data Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Environmental and Ecological Applications, History of Statistics.

Xianzheng (Shan) Huang
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 2006, North Carolina State University)
Joint Modeling, Robust Statistical Inference, Mixed Effect Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Xiaoyan (Iris) Lin
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2008, Missouri)
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling, Objective Bayesian Analysis, Item Response Theory.

Edsel A. Peña
Professor (Ph.D. 1986, Florida State University)
Mathematical Statistics, Semi- and Non-parametrics, Survival Analysis, Reliability, Applied Stochastic Processes.

Maureen Petkewich
Senior Instructor (M.S. 2003, University of South Carolina)
 

Wilma Sims
Manager, Statistical Consulting Laboratory (M.S. 2000, University of South Carolina)

Joshua M. Tebbs
Professor (Ph.D. 2000, North Carolina State University)
Categorical Data, Statistical Methods for Pooled Data (Group Testing), Order-restricted Inference, Applications in Epidemiology and Public Health.

Hao Wang
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2010, Duke University)
Bayesian Time Series/Econometrics; High-Dimensional Inference and Computation; Statistical Disclosure Limitations.

Lianming Wang
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2006, University of Missouri)
Survival Analysis, Bayesian analysis, Non- and Semi-Parametrics, Multivariate Analysis.

Ou Zhao
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2008, University of Michigan)
Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics, Time Series Analysis.


Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Stephen D. Durham
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Davis)
Applied Probability, Stress-Strength Analysis, Adaptive Sampling, Bioassay.

James D. Lynch
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1974, Florida State University)
Reliability, Life Testing, Probability, Stochastic Processes, Mixture Models.

William J. Padgett
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1971, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State University)
Reliability, Life Testing, Survival Analysis, Nonparametric Estimation, Bayesian Estimation, Statistical Quality Control.

John D. Spurrier
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1974, U. of Missouri)
Nonparametrics, Multiple Comparisons, Statistical Education.


Adjunct Faculty

Tammiee S. Dickenson
Research Associate Professor, Office of Program Evaluation, USC College of Education (Ph.D. 2005, University of South Carolina)
Research Interests: Applied Multilevel Modeling Including Growth Models, Item Response Theory.

James W. Hardin
Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ph.D. 1992, Texas A&M)
Research Interests: Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Estimating Equations, Survival Models, and Computational Statistics.

Huynh Huynh
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology (Ph.D. 1969, University of Iowa)
Research Interests: Educational Research.

Elizabeth H. Slate
Duncan McLean and Pearl Levine Fairweather Professor, Florida State University, Department of Statistics (Ph.D. 1991, Carnegie Mellon)
Research Interests: Biostatistics and Survival Analysis.

R. Cary Tuckfield
Section Leader - Statistical Consulting, Savannah River Technology Center (Ph.D. 1985, Indiana University)
Research Interests: Environmental Statistics, Ecology, Applied Statistics.

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