Faculty research areas, publications, and awards


  • History of probability, statistics and actuarial science
  • Survey sampling design and estimation
  • Analysis of complex survey data
Dr. John W. Braun Professor (Graduate Chair)
  • Inference for stochastic processes interacting particle systems, point process
  • Bootstrapping techniques
  • Smoothing techniques
  • Analysis of Markov chains with block-structured transition matrices
  • Industrial statistics: control charts, reliability
Dr. Matt Davison Professor
  • Energy finance
  • Options pricing
  • Portfolio optimization
  • Real options (with application in Defence and Medicine)
Dr. Wenqing He Associate Professor
  • Multivariate lifetime data analysis
  • Gene expression data analysis
  • Analysis of longitudinal data
  • Analysis of missing data
  • Data mining
  • Biostatistics
Dr. Bruce Jones Professor (Chair)
  • Actuarial Applications of Multi-State Models
  • Applications of Credibility Theory
  • Insured Lives Mortality
Dr. Reg Kulperger Professor
  • Inference for stochastic processes, interacting particle systems, point process
  • Bootstrapping techniques
  • Smoothing techniques
  • Asymptotic methods in statistics
Mr. Jonathan Lee Session Lecturer
  • Parallel Statistical Computing
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • Statistical Applications to Forestry
  • Data Visualization
Dr. Xiaoming Liu Assistant Professor
  • Actuarial Science
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Stochastic Processes
Dr. Ian B. MacNeill Professor Emertus
  • Time series analysis and forecasting
  • Changepoint and changeboundary problems
  • Limit theory for partial sum sequences and for iterated partial sum sequences
  • Modeling and forecasting rates of morbidity and mortality of chronic diseases
  • Monitoring methods for early detection of outbreaks of infections
  • Forecasting the extent of detected outbreaks of infections
Dr. Rogemar Mamon Associate Professor
  • Quantitative finance
  • Applications of stochastic processes to financial and actuarial modelling
  • Optimal estimation of Markov-modulated models: filtering, smoothing and prediction
Dr. Ian A. McLeod Professor
  • Time Series analysis
  • Wavelet methods for time series
  • Data visualization
  • Massive datasets and data mining
  • Neural networks for forecasting
  • Statistical computing
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Statistical software development
Dr. Duncan Murdoch Professor
  • Applied Statistics
  • Bayesian Methods
  • Statistical computing
  • Statistical graphics
  • Statistics of orientation data
  • Multivariate statistical analysis
  • Probabilistic models in environmental sciences
  • Serial correlation
  • Inference with incomplete data
  • Distribution theory, special functions
  • Quadratic forms, theory and applications
  • Functional linear models
  • Iterative techniques in actuarial science
  • Tests of exponentiality
Dr. Mark Reesor Associate Professor
  • Financial Mathematics - credit risk management and pricing
Dr. Jiandong Ren Associate Professor (Undergraduate Chair)
  • Catastrophe insurance
  • Actuarial Science
  • Risk management
Dr. Hristo S. Sendov Associate Professor
  • Optimization
  • Variational Analysis
  • Financial Mathematics
Dr. Kristina Paskova Sendova Associate Professor
  • Ruin theory
  • Risk theory
  • Actuarial applications of reliability theory
Dr. Hao Yu Professor (Associate Chair)
  • Statistical Computing, Parallel Programming and Rmpi
  • Financial Time Series
  • Stochastic Modeling and Residual Analyses
  • Approximation in Statistics and Probability
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