Dr. Amy Wagler

Data Analytics Lab Director
Associate Professor

Dr. Wagler has expertise in generalized linear models and simultaneous inference of quantities resulting from these models. She has worked on projects which applied generalized linear models employing latent variables for handling complex multivariate data sets.

Dr. Jongwha Chang

Resource Scientist
Associate Professor

Dr. Suneel B. Chatla

Resource Scientist
Assistant Professor

Dr. Chatla's research focuses on nonparametric methods for dependent and high-dimensional data.

Dr. Asim Kumer Dey

Resource Scientist
Assistant Professor

Dr. Dey’s research focuses broadly on statistical methods for complex networks, topological and geometric data analysis, data depth methods, extreme value modeling, and their applications to power systems, critical infrastructures, blockchain data analytics, environment, epidemiology, and finance.

Dr. Behzad Djafari-Rouhani

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Djafari-Rouhani's research focuses on analysis, functional analysis and nonlinear functional analysis.

Dr. Art Duval

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Duval's research focuses on algebraic combinatorics.

Dr. Jorge Ibarra, MD

Adjunct Clinical Affiliate

Dr. Ming-Ying Leung

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Leung's research centers on probabilistic modeling and statistical bioinformatics, focusing on the applications of Markov models, Poisson approximations, and the scan statistics to biomolecular sequence analysis. Her current research involves the prediction of RNA secondary structures in viral genomes, and posttranslational modification sites in proteins.

Dr. Oralia Loza

Resource Scientist
Associate Professor

Dr. Loza is trained in statistics (MA) and epidemiology (PhD) and teaches courses in these areas for the UTEP College of Health Sciences’ undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Their research interests are focused on substance abuse and risks behaviors for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among high-risk populations on the U.S.-Mexico border region including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) and other sexual and gender minority populations. These projects involve community-based participation and quantitative data analysis using statistical software, such as SPSS, for analysis.

Dr. Abhijit Mandal

Resource Scientist
Assistant Professor

Dr. Mandal's research interests are robust inference, nonparametric statistics, big data analysis, genetics, MCMC, signal processing.

Dr. M. Christina Mariani

Resource Scientist
Professor, Department Chair

Dr. Mariani's research centers on nonlinear partial differential equations, mathematical finance, mathematical physics.

Dr. Osvaldo Morera

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Michael Pokojovy

Resource Scientist
Assistant Professor

Dr. Pokojovy's research interests are manifold. They include, but are not limited to, nonparametric and robust techniques with application to big data analytics, statistical quality control, data mining, computational statistics, design and control of stochastic spatiotemporal systems, functional data analysis, etc. He has many years of successful experience with statistical and scientific computing and programming in R, Matlab, C/C++, etc. Dr. Pokojovy also has a strong background in various areas of applied mathematics.

Dr. Ori Rosen

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Rosen has been part of the Statistical Consulting Lab since 2005. Research interests include: bayesian computational methods, ecological inference, time series, functional data analysis.

Dr. Emil Schwab

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Scwab's research interests are arithmetic functions, inverse semigroups, Möbius inversion, special categories.

Dr. Granville Sewell

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Sewell's researcn interests are in the area of numerical analysis.

Dr. Naijun Sha

Resource Scientist
Associate Professor

Dr. Sha has been part of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory since 2002. Research interests include: classification and clustering, variable selection technique, bayesian approaches, bioinformatics.

Dr. Xiaogang Su

Resource Scientist
Professor

Dr. Su's research interests include: tree-based methods, variable selection, survival analysis, causal inference, machine learning, data mining.

Dr. Son-Young Yi

Resource Scientist
Associate Professor

Dr. Yi's research interests include: numerical methods for partial differential equations, multiscale analysis.

Dr. Xianyi Zeng

Resource Scientist
Assistant Professor

Dr. Zeng's research interests include: numerical partial differential equations, multi-physics computation, high performance computing.