Table 1. Current Professors of Statistics and Professors of Teaching Practice,
Year | First | Last | Research areas |
1988 | Steve | MacEachern | Bayesian Statistics, Model Uncertainty and Selection, Nonparametric Methods, Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods, Robust Methods |
1990 | Mario | Peruggia | Bayesian Statistics, Model Uncertainty and Selection, Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods, Time Series Analysis, Statistical Graphics |
1995 | Shili | Lin | Statistical Genomics and Bioinformatics, High-Dimensional Data, Model Uncertainty and Selection, Bayesian Statistics, Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods |
1996 | Omer | Ozturk | Robust Methods, Nonparametric Methods, Uncertainty Quantification, Statistics Education |
2002 | Yoonkyung | Lee | Statistical Learning, Multivariate Analysis, Classification |
2004 | Deborah | Rumsey | Statistics Education, Learning Spaces, Teacher Training and Support |
2005 | Christopher | Hans | Bayesian Statistics, Model Uncertainty and Selection, Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods, Statistical Computing, Graphical Models |
2006 | Desheng | Liu | Spatial Statistics, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing |
2005 | Xinyi | Xu | Bayesian Statistics, Model Uncertainty and Selection, Decision Theory, High-Dimensional Data Analysis |
2006 | Eloise | Kaizar | Meta Analysis, Survey Sampling, Bayesian Statistics |
2006 | Radu | Herbei | Applied Probability, Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods, Inverse Problems, Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Statistics |
2006 | Laura | Kubatko | Statistical Genetics, Phylogenetics, Population Genetics, Computational Biology |
2008 | Asuman | Turkmen | Robust Methods, Statistical Genetics, Multivariate Analysis |
2012 | Sebastian | Kurtek | Shape Analysis, Functional Data Analysis, Image Analysis, Statistical Computing, Bayesian Statistics |
2012 | Vincent | Vu | High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Statistical Learning, Statistical Computing, Multivariate Analysis |
2013 | Jonathan | Baker | Mathematics and Statistics Education, Instructional Technology, Active Learning, Distance Education |
2013 | David | Sivakoff | Applied Probability, Percolation, Interacting Particle Systems, Stochastic Processes, Network Analysis |
2014 | Oksana | Chkrebtii | Uncertainty Quantification, Inverse Problems, Bayesian Statistics, Functional Data Analysis, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics |
2014 | Michelle | Everson | Statistics Education, Distance Education, Teacher Training and Support |
2015 | Dena | Asta | Network Analysis, Nonparametric Methods |
2015 | Jennifer | Sinnott | Survival Analysis, Statistical Genetics, High-Dimensional Data Analysis |
2016 | Yuan | Zhang | Statistical network analysis, Nonparametric inference, U-statistics, Conformal prediction |
2017 | Subhadeep | Paul | Network Analysis, Statistical Learning, Neuroimaging Data Analysis, High-Dimensional Data Analysis |
2019 | Thomas | Metzger | Bayesian statistics, Model selection, Statistical education |
2021 | Andrew | Richards | Statistics education |
2021 | Steephanson | Anthonymuthu | Statistics education |
2022 | Xiaoxuan | Cai | Causal Inference, Missing Data, Mediation Analysis, Observational Studies, Survival Analysis, Time Series |
2023 | Sally | Paganin | Bayesian Statistics, Models for latent variables, Statistical Computing, Statistical Genomics |
2024 | Arnab | Auddy | High Dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning Methods, Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs, Spectral Methods for Matrices & Tensors, Nonparametric Statistics |
2024 | Kate | Hu | Use of auxiliary Information and proxies for bias adjustment and precision improvement, Cost-effective study design, Z-estimation |
2024 | Isa | Marques | Modeling in space and time, Bayesian modeling and inference, Computational statistics, Environmental and ecological sciences and sustainability |
2024 | Jillian | Morrison | Data visualization, Statistics and Data Science Education, Interdisciplinary Research |
2024 | Max | Russo | Computational Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Decision Theory, High Dimensional Data Analysis, Clinical Trials Design and Analysis |
2024 | Paul | Wiemann | Bayesian statistics, Computational statistics, Variational approximation, MCMC, Shrinkage priors, Spatial statistics |
Table 2. Former faculty who retired or left during 1999-2024
Years in department | First name | Last name | Status |
1980-2015 | Mark | Berliner | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1983-2006 | Saul | Blumenthal | Retired |
1990-2011 | Michael | Browne | Retired |
2003-2019 | Kate | Calder | Left to University of Texas |
2003-2004 | Arijit | Chakrabarti | Indian Statistical Institute. |
2015- 2023 | Lo-Bin | Chang | Left to Eisai Biostatistics |
2001-2023 | Peter | Craigmile | Left to Hunter College CUNY |
1998-2012 | Noel | Cressie | Left to University of Wollongong |
1988-2021 | Douglas | Critchlow | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1980-2011 | Angela | Dean | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1994-2005 | Hani | Doss | Left to University of Florida |
1974-2005 | Michael | Fligner | Retired |
1983-2013 | Prem | Goel | Retired, Emeritus |
2003-2006 | Tailen | Hsing | Left to University of Michigan |
2001-2005 | Ernest | Fokoue | Left to Kettering University |
1977-2012 | Hsu | Jason | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
2017-2020 | Jared | Huling | Left to University of Minnesota |
1993-2003 | Mark | Irwin | Left to Harvard University |
2017-2018 | Vishesh | Karwa | Left to Temple University |
1999-2003 | Stanley | Lemeshow | Left to OSU College of Public Health |
2003-2013 | Jack | Miller | Left to University of Michigan |
2010 | Elizabeth | Mannshardt | Left to North Carolina State University |
1980-2015 | Haikady | Nagaraja | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1984-2017 | William | Notz | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1984-2013 | Dennis | Pearl | Retired, to Penn State |
2013-2024 | Matt | Pratola | Left to Indiana University |
1989-2010 | Thomas | Santner | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1993-2003 | Xiaotong | Shen | Left to University of Minnesota |
2005-2014 | Tao | Shi | Left to Citadel LLC |
1984-2015 | Elizabeth | Stasny | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1982-2012 | Joseph | Verducci | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
1973-2011 | Douglas | Wolfe | Retired, Emeritus in residence |
2001-2003 | Roger | Woodard | Left to North Carolina State University |
2014-2025 | Yunzhang | Zhu | Amazon.com Inc. |
Deceased
Sadly, several former faculty members passed away in this period. These were Ransom Whitney (2007), Ramesh Srivastava (2012), Jagdish Rustagi (2014), Jean Powers (2015), Saul Blumenthal (2018), and Michael Browne (2018).
Table 3. Current staff
Name Administrative Position
Christine Bishop Accountant and Grants Administrator
Maria Cabral Student Receptionist
Caitlin Donahue Graduate Program Coordinator
Antonio Hernandez Academic Advisor
Michael Jeter Fiscal Associate
Cassie Johnson Administrative Assistant
John Pieper Senior Department Manager
Jean Scott Program Coordinator
Jennifer Wells Academic Program Specialist
Table 4. Undergraduate and graduate level books authored by faculty
Undergraduate texts 1999-2024:
2007 Rumsey, D. Intermediate Statistics for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons.
2010 Rumsey, D. Essentials of Statistics for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons.
2011 Rumsey, D. Statistics for Dummies, 2nd Edition, and accompanying 2019 Workbook, 2nd Edition; John Wiley & Sons.
2015 Rumsey, D. U-Can Statistics! John Wiley & Sons.
2017 Wolfe DA and Schneider, G. Intuitive Introductory Statistics, Springer
2020 Moore, D.S. and Notz, W.I. Statistics Concepts and Controversies, 10th Edition. with chapters contributed by Miller, J. and Everson, M. , Macmillan Learning
2021 Moore, D.S., Notz, W.I. and Fligner, M. Basic Practice of Statistics, 9th Edition, Macmillan Learning
2021 Rumsey, D. Statistics II for Dummies, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
2022 Rumsey, D. Statistics for Dummies, All in One. John Wiley & Sons.
2024 Rumsey, D. Probability for Dummies, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
Graduate and Research Texts 1999-2024
2000 Berliner, L.M., Nychka, D., and Hoar, T., editors. Studies in the Atmospheric Sciences, Springer.
2003 David, H.A. and Nagaraja, H.N., Order Statistics, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons.
2005 Balakrishnan, N., Kannan, N., and Nagaraja, H.N., editors. Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability, Birkhauser.
2006 Dean, A. and Lewis, S. editors. Screening: Methods for Industrial Experimentation,
Drug Discovery and Genetics, Springer Verlag.
2007 Verducci, J.S., Shen, X., and Lafferty, J. (editors) Prediction and Discovery, Contemporary Mathematics Series, volume 443.
2008 Reprint Arnold, B.C., Balakrishnan, N., and Nagaraja, H.N., A First Course in Order Statistics, SIAM (Originally published 1992, John Wiley & Sons.
2009 Lin, S., Zhao, H. Handbook on Analyzing Human Genetics Data: Computational
approaches and software. Springer, New York.
2010 Knowles, L.L. and Kubatko, L.S. editors. Estimating Species Trees: Practical and
Theoretical Aspects, Wiley-Blackwell.
2011 Cressie, N. and Wikle, C.K. Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data. John Wiley & Sons
2013 Hollander M., Wolfe D.A., and Chicken E. Nonparametric Statistical Methods. John Wiley & Sons.
2014 Rustagi J.S., Wolfe D.A., editors. Teaching of Statistics and Statistical Consulting. Academic Press.
2015 Dean, A., Morris M., Stufken, J., Bingham, D., editors. Handbook of Design and
Analysis of Experiments, Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods.
2017 Dean, A., Voss, D., and Draguljic, D., Design and Analysis of Experiments, 2nd
Edition, Springer-Verlag
2017 Jermyn, I.H., Kurtek, S., Laga, H., Srivastava, A. Elastic Shape Analysis of Three-
Dimensional Objects, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision, Morgan & Claypool.
2017 Choudhary P.K. and Nagaraja H.N., Measuring Agreement: Models, Methods and Applications, John Wiley.
2019 Santner, T.J., Williams, B. and Notz, W.I., The Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments, 2nd Edition. Springer Verlag.
2020 Wolfe, D.A. and Schneider, G. Primer for Data Analytics and Graduate Study in Statistics. Springer.
2022 Lin, S., Scholtens, D., Datta, S. Bioinformatics Methods: From Microarrays to NextGeneration Sequencing. CRC Press.
2022 Argiento, R., Camerlenghi, F., Paganin, S., editors. New Frontiers in Bayesian Statistics. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, Springer.
2022 Cui, X., Dickhause, T., Ding Y., and Hsu, J.C., editors, Handbook of Multiple
Comparisons, Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods
Table 5. Faculty and Staff Professional and University awards 1999-2024
Awards from Professional Societies
Year | First | Last | Award | |||
2001 | Mark | Berliner | Distinguished Achievement Medal, ASA | |||
2003 | Michael | Browne | Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in Multivariate Experimental Psychology | |||
2003 | Joseph | Verducci | American Presidential Award: Statistics in Chemistry | |||
2003 | Stanley | Lemeshow | Wiley Lifetime Award | |||
2005 | Xinyi | Xu | Leonard J. Savage Dissertation Award | |||
2006 | Noel | Cressie | Distinguished Achievement Medal, American Statistical Association | |||
2009 | Noel | Cressie | R. A. Fisher Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings | |||
2009 | Joseph | Verducci | Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland | |||
2011 | Peter | Craigmile | El-Shaarawi Young Researcher’s Award | |||
2011 | Michelle | Everson | Waller Education Award, American Statistical Association | |||
2019 | William | Notz | Founders Award, American Statistical Association | |||
2023 | William | Notz | Waller Education Award, Career, American Statistical Association | |||
University Awards
Year | First | Last | Award |
2004 | Noel | Cressie | Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
2005-8 | Michael | Browne | Roger E. Kirk Scholar in Residence, Dept. of Psychology |
2006 | Noel | Cressie | Distinguished University Scholar, OSU |
2006 | Elizabeth | Stasny | Harlan Hatcher Memorial Award, Colleges of Arts and Sciences |
2009 | Paul | Brower | Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award |
2010 | Paul | Brower | University Distinguished Staff Award |
2010 | Kythrie | Silva | Distinguished Staff Award, College of Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences |
2011 | Lisa | Van Dyke | Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award |
2014 | Brian | Smith | Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award |
2018 | Jean | Scott | University Distinguished Staff Award |
2019- | Steven | MacEachern | Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistics |
2019 | Peter | Craigmile | Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award |
2021 | Michelle | Everson | Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer |
2022 | Brooke | O'Leary | Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award |
Table 6. Fellowships awarded by professional societies 1999-2024
Year Name Elected Fellow of
2000 H.N. Nagaraja American Statistical Association
2001 William Notz American Statistical Association
2001 Jason Hsu American Statistical Association
2001 Mark Berliner Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2002 Angela Dean Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2002 Dennis Pearl American Statistical Association
2004 Shili Lin American Statistical Association
2004 Mario Peruggia American Statistical Association
2004 Mark Berliner American Association for the Advancement of Science
2005 Joseph Verducci American Statistical Association
2006 Steven MacEachern American Statistical Association
2006 Deborah Rumsey American Statistical Association
2008 Noel Cressie Spatial Econometric Association
2008 Thomas Santner American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009 Shili Lin American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010 Omer Ozturk American Statistical Association
2015 Yoonkyung Lee American Statistical Association
2016 Peter Craigmile American Statistical Association
2019 Laura Kubatko American Association for the Advancement of Science
2020 Steven MacEachern International Society for Bayesian Analysis
2020 Peter Craigmile Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2021 Steven MacEachern Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2022 Xinyi Xu American Statistical Association
2024 Shili Lin Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Department members who became ASA and IMS Fellows before 1999, include:
ASA Fellows: Mark Berliner, Saul Blumenthal, Noel Cressie, Angela Dean, Prem Goel, Tailen Hsing, Stanley Lemeshow, Tom Santner, Ransom Whitney, Douglas Wolfe
IMS Fellows: Robert Bartoszynski, Saul Blumenthal, Noel Cressie, Hani Doss, Prem Goel, Tailen Hsing, Tom Santner, Douglas Wolfe
Table 7. Professional service 1999-2024
Year | First | Last | Service | |
1996-2020 | Noel | Cressie | Member of Advisory Editorial Board, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, John Wiley & Sons | |
1998-2001 | William | Notz | Associate Dean, College Math & Physical Sciences | |
2002-4 | William | Notz | Editor of Technometrics | |
2004 | Thomas | Santner | Chair, Council of Sections Governing Board, ASA | |
2005 | Thomas | Santner | Committee on Nominations, ASA | |
2005 | Mario | Peruggia | Chair, Section on Statistical Graphics, ASA | |
2007-9 | William | Notz | Editor, Journal of Statistics Education | |
2007-9 | Thomas | Santner | Board of Directors, ASA | |
2009-10 | Joseph | Verducci | Co-Founder and Chair, ASA Section on Statistical Learning & Data Mining | |
2008 | William | Notz | Chair, Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences, ASA | |
2010-12 | Joseph | Verducci | Editor-in-Chief, J. of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining | |
2012 | Angela | Dean | Chair, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, ASA | |
2013-15 | Michelle | Everson | Editor Journal of Statistics Education | |
2014-2016 | Shili | Lin | Standing member, GCAT Study Section, NIH | |
2015 | William | Notz | Chair, Section on Statistical Education, ASA | |
2015-now | Mario | Peruggia | Co-Editor Bayesian Analysis | |
2016 | Steven | MacEachern | President of International Society for Bayesian Analysis | |
2016-2020 | Shili | Lin | Standing member, BMRD Study Section, NIH | |
2018 | Shili | Lin | President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics | |
2020 | Steven | MacEachern | Chair, Caucus of Academic Representatives, ASA | |
2020 | Laura | Kubatko | President of the Society of Systematic Biologists | |
2020-now | Shili | Lin | Board of Directors, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute | |
2020-24 | Mario | Peruggia | Board of Directors, International Soc. Bayesian Analysis | |
2023-now | Yoonkyung | Lee | Board of Directors, Korean International Statistical Society | |
2024-now | Jonathan | Baker | Director, AMGEM STEM Gateway Learning Center | |
2024-now | Shili | Lin | NISS Statistics Serving Society (S3) Ingram Olkin Forums |
Table 8. Chotey Lal and Mohra Devi Rustagi Lecturers 1999-2024.
Professor Susan A Murphy | Harvard University | 2024 |
Professor Yee Whye Teh | University of Oxford | 2023 |
Professor Michael I. Jordan | University of California, Berkeley | 2022 |
Professor Richard Samworth | University of Cambridge | 2021 |
Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal | University of Toronto | 2020 |
Professor Nancy Reid | University of Toronto | 2019 |
Professor Dennis Cook | University of Minnesota | 2018 |
Professor Larry Wasserman | Carnegie Mellon University | 2017 |
Professor Bin Yu | University of California, Berkeley | 2016 |
Professor Elizabeth Thompson | University of Washington | 2015 |
Professor David Madigan | Columbia University | 2014 |
Dr. Alice S. Whittemore | Stanford University (Medicine) | 2013 |
Professor Stephen E. Fienberg | Carnegie Mellon University | 2012 |
Professor Xiao-Li Meng | Harvard University | 2011 |
Professor Gary G. Koch | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 2010 |
Dr. Gregory Campbell | Food and Drug Administration | 2009 |
Professor Jerry Friedman | Stanford University | 2008 |
Professor James Berger | SAMSI & Duke University | 2007 |
Professor Nan Laird | Harvard University | 2006 |
Professor Raymond J. Carroll | Texas A&M University | 2005 |
Professor Michael Stein | University of Chicago | 2004 |
Professor C.R. Rao | Pennsylvania State University | 2003 |
Professor Richard L. Smith | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 2002 |
Professor Thomas Kailath | Stanford University | 2001 |
Professor Herbert A. David | Iowa State University | 2000 |
From inception in 1988 to 1999, the following professors gave Rustagi lectures:
Herman Chernoff (Harvard), Carl Morris (Texas), Neils Keiding (Copenhagen, Denmark), Larry Brown (Cornell), Herbert Robbins (Rutgers), Vijay Nair (Michigan), Valery B. Nevzoro (St. Petersburgh State, Russia), Donald Rubin (Harvard), Edward Wegman (George Mason), Terry Speed (California, Berkeley), Wing Hung Wong (UCLA).
Table 9. Conferences held on the OSU campus and organized by Ohio State Faculty and Staff.
Year Conference
2000 First Midwest Conference for New Directions in Experimental Design (Dean)
2000 Workshop on Hierarchical Modeling in Environmental Statistics (Cressie)
2004 Ohio Statistics Conference (Miller)
2005, 7, 9 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) (Pearl)
2007 First North American Workshop in Cladistic Methods (Kubatko)
2010 The Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Statistical Learning,
(Verducci, Shi, MacEachern, Lee, Ozturk, Xu, Wolfe)
2010 Celebration of lifetime of scientific contributions of Michael Browne
(Depts Statistics & Psychology; Soc. Multivariate Experimental Psychology;
Scientific Software International)
2016 ENVR/EnviBayes Workshop on Bayesian Environmetrics (Calder, Craigmile)
(including a special invited session and dinner to honor Mark Berliner)
2016-24 American Statistical Association DataFest (Hans)
2018-24 Florence Nightingale Day (Lin, Kohlschmidt, Baker, T.Berliner, Mo,
Nicolet, Turkmen)
2022 TDAI Foundations CoP Deep Learning Summer School, (Lee)