Faculty research areas, publications, and awards
| Research Areas | Publications | Awards |
Dr. David R. Bellhouse Professor
- 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
Dr. Serge B. Provost Professor
- 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




