Please keep us updated by sending an email to Kirsten Wellman. This page also lists a few graduates of the university who did not take a statistics degree, but were otherwise closely associated with this department.
2024
- Angzhi Fan
- Yuhan Philip Liu, Quantitative Researcher, Cubist Systematic Strategies
- Wanrong Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
2023
- Yonghoon Lee
- Zhan Lin, Quantitative Researcher, Millennium
- Lijia Zhou, Quantitative Researcher, Chicago Trading Company
2022
- Ahmed Bou-Rabee, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
- Pinhan Chen, Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities
- Xialiang Dou, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma
- Nathan Gill, Assistant Professor of Preventative Medicine (Biostatistics), Northwestern University
- Andrew Goldstein, Applied Scientist, Uber
- Yi Liu, Applied Scientist, Amazon
- Lizhen Nie, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma
- Abby Stevens, Computational Data Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- Jiacheng Wang
- Qing Yan
2021
- You-Lin Chen
- Byol Kim, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Sen Na, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
- Enakshi Saha, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
- Micol Tresoldi
- Yuxin Zou, Senior Statistical Geneticist, Regeneron Genetics Center
- Jason Willwerscheid, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Providence College
2020
- Takintayo Akinbiyi
- Yongrui Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, Rice University
- Ran Dai, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics,
- Jonathan Eskreis-Winkler, Senior Data Scientist, Etsy
- Youngseok Kim, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma Investments
- Tae Hyun Kim, Applied Scientist, Microsoft
- Haoyang Liu, Algorithmic Trader, Hudson River Trading
- Zhipeng Lou, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
- Gregory Naisat, Software Developer, Rx.Me
- Petr Panov, Quantitative Researcher, Optiver
- Lei Sun
- Minzhe Wang, Quantitative Researcher, Jump Operation
- Changji Xu, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma
- Fengshuo Zhang, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma Investments
- Bumeng Zhuo, Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma Investments
2019
- Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour, Vice President of Data Science, Root Insurance Company
- Yuefeng Han
- Joelle Mbatchou, Senior Statistical Geneticist, Regenron Pharmaceuticals, Inc
- Christopher McKennan, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
- Fan Yang, Junior Quantitative Researcher, Akuna
- Jing Yu, Associate in Quantitative Analysis, Citi
2018
- Likai Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis
- Soudeep Deb, Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Kushal Dey, Postdoctoral Researcher, Alkes Price Lab, Harvard Scool of Public Health
- Wooseok Ha, Postdoctoral Scholar, Foundations of Data Analysis Institute, University of California, Berkeley
- Mohammad Jahangoshahi, Quantitative Researcher, Susquehanna International Group, LLC
- Sayar Karmakar, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
- Mengyin Lu, Research Scientist, JD Digits
- Vivak Patel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin
- Ulises Pereira, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computational Laboratory of Cortical Dynamics, New York University
- Yunfan Tang, Quantitative Trader, Tower Research Capital
- Sze Wai Wong, Junior Associate, McKinsey and Company
2017
- Subhajit Goswami, Reader, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
- Ang Li, Data Scientist, Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership
- Li Li
- Si Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University
- Wei Wang
- Wanting Xu, Quantitative Researcher, Morgan Stanley
- Danna Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
- Xiang Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
2016
- Marc Goessling, Data Scientist, simMachines
- Zhe Liu, Research Scientist, Facebook
- Andrew Poppick, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton College
- Yoann Potiron, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
- Rishideep Roy, Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Zhengrong Xing, Data Scientist, Quora
- Mengyu Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Central Florida
- Yuancheng Zhu, Researcher, Renaissance Technologies LLC
2015
- Walter Dempsey, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
- Somak Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
- Michael Horrell, Head of Data Science, Uptake Technologies, LLC
- Eric Janofsky, Senior Data Scientist, Uber
- Lian Huan Ng, Graham School Instructor in Data Analytics, University of Chicago
- Dinah Shender, Quantitative Analyst, Google
- Wei Su
- Miaoyan Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ruming Wang, Associate, Goldman Sachs
2014
- Christopher Fox, Lead Data Scientist, Fulcrum Analytics
- Duo Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
- Sheng Zhong, Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie
2013
- Stefano Castruccio, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
- Desislava Petkova, Data Scientist, UCB
- Matthew Reimherr, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
- Yunda Zhong, Quantitative Trading Researcher, Susquehanna International Group, LLP
2012
- Rina Foygel Barber, Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
- Winfried Barta, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC
- Changgee Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Xiaohui Chang, Associate Professor of Business Analytics, College of Business, Oregon State University
- Harry Crane, Associate Professor and Co-Graduate Director, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
- Joseph Guinness, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University
- Han Han, Quantitative Analyst, Google, California
- Darongsae Kwon, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
- Myoungji Lee, Research Scientist, Lyft
- Christina Dan Wang, Assistant Professor of Finance, New York University, Shanghai
- Ting Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
2011
- Marcin Hitczenko, Statistician, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- Alan Huang, Lecturer, Statistics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
- Yinxiao Huang, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
- Xiaoquan Wen, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
- Han Xiao, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University
2010
- Michael Finegold, Chief Data Scientist, Fulcrum Analytics
- Yibi Huang, Lecturer and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
- Christina Dan Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, New York University, Shanghai
- Wenlong Wang, Quantitative Analyst, Magnetar Capital
2009
- Phillip Lynch, Head Trader, DRW Trading Group
- Zuoheng Anita Wang, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University
- Qinqqing Xu, Trader, Sharada Capital Management
- Zhou Zhou, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
2008
- Oli Atlason, Senior Quantitative Researcher, 3Red Partners
- Omar De la Cruz Cabrera, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University
- Baoguan Ke, Associate, Morgan Stanley
- Su Yeon Kim, Research Assistant Professor, KAIST
- Yingying Li, Professor, Department of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- David S. Matteson, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University
- Dale W. R. Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Minsun Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University
- Xinghua Zheng, Associate Professor, Department of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Chava Zibman, Mathematical Statistician, FDA
2007
- Angela Hugeback, Freelance Statistician and Data Scientist, Hugeback Innovations, LLC
- Chae Young Lim, Associate Professor, Seoul National University
- Zhibiao Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
2006
- Elliot Bernstein, Research Analyst, Wellington Management Company
- Abigail L. Jager, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
- Irina A. Ostrovnaya, Assistant Attending Biostatistician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
- Xiaofeng Shao, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign
- Jie Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
2005
- Ethan Anderes, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
- Hae Kyung Im, Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
- Mikyoung Jun, Professor and Director of MS Program in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
- Timothy A. Thornton, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Maoxia Zheng, Biostatistics Site Head, Genentech
2004
- Peter Bouman, Principal Data Scientist, Uptake
- David J. Clifford, Science Lead, X
- Wanli Min, Chief Data Scientist, Alibaba Cloud
- Rituparna Sen, Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
- Liping Tong, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University
2003
- Regina Dolgoarshinnykh, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
- George Kordzakhia, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, FDA
- Martin Romero, Researcher, Mexican Petroleum Institute, and Sampling Expert, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
- Jongwoo Song, Professor, Department of Statistics, Ewha Women's University
- Zhiqiang Tan, Professor, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University
- Leah Welty, Director, Biostatistics Collaboration Center, Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics) and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2002
- James Servidea, US Department of Defense
- Zhengyuan Zhu, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics Methodology (CSSM), and Professor in the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2001
- Virgil Radu Craiu, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
- Danielle J. Harvey, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis
- Ji Meng Loh, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey's Science & Technology University
- Seongjoo Song, Professor, Department of Statistics, Korea University
- Andrew L. Strahs, Vice President of Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, and Data Management, Clementia Pharmaceuticals
- Lei Sun, Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
- Ricardo Velazquez, Director General de Investigación y Asuntos Internacionales, IPAB
- Jian Zhang, Adams Street Partners, LLC
- Lan Zhang, Professor, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago
2000
- Takaki Hayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University,
- Ernst-Jan C. Wit, Professor and Chair, Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Groningen
1999
- Dongseok Choi, Professor, School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University
- Dan Nicolae, Professor and Chair, Departments of Statistics; Human Genetics; Medicine; Section of Genetic Medicine; the College; Senior Fellow: Computation Institute, The University of Chicago
1998
- Montserrat Fuentes, President, St. Edward's University
- Jiayu Li, Analyst at UBS Financial Services Inc., Chicago, IL
- Saunak Sen, Professor and Chief of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Florin A. Vaida, Professor, Division of Family Medicine And Public Health, University of California at San Diego
- Steve C. Wang, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
1997
- Chih-Rung Chen, Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Nancy C. Clements, Emmes Corporation, Maryland
- Jennifer Bo Liang, Citibank, New York
- Jeffrey Picka, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick
- Anna Pluzhnikov, Research Associate, Department of Human Genetics,The University of Chicago
- Kaare K. Simonsen, Director, FX Overlay at HSBC
1996
- Dongping Fang, Advanced Analytics, IBM Research, Chicago
- Michael L. Frigge, deCode Genetics, Iceland
- Hui-Nien Hung, Professor, Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University
- Nicole A. Lazar, Professor of Statistics, Director of Online Programs, Penn State University
1995
- Walter T. Ambrosius, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- John Barnard, Section Head, Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- L. Brant Collins, Software Engineer, Allstate
- Li Ming Dong, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University
- David A. van Dyk, Chair Professor, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
- Qi-Yu Zhang, Director of Statistics, BD Bioscience, San Jose, California
1994
- Siu-Kai Chan
- Mark E. Irwin, Senior Decision Support Analyst at United Concordia
- Emmanuel N. Lazaridis, Governance, Tech, and Digital Strategist, Strategic Arrow Limited
- Sangun Park, Professor, Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
- Zhenming Shun, Vice President, Head of Statistics and Data Management, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
- Fred A. Wright, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1993
- Ernesto M. Flores-Roux, President, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones
- Mark S. Levenson, Deputy Director, Office of Biostatistics Organization, Division of Biometrics VII, US Food and Drug Administration
- Peter M. Meyer, Senior Ads Quality Statistician, Google, Inc.
- Patricia E. Styer, Quality Improvement Analyst, CareOregon, Portland, OR
1992
- Ming Long Lam, Full Stack Data Scientist and Machine Learning Instructor, SAS Institute
- Bing Li, Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
- Xiaojing Xiang
- Jianming Ye, Professor and Dean, School of Management, Xiamen University
- Biao Zhang, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo
1991
- Richard Chappell, Professor, Departments of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Statistics, University of Wisconsin
- Melinda L. Drum, Retired (formerly Research Associate (Assistant Professor)), Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago
- Carla H. Inclan,Statistician, Legal Fair Lending Analytics
- Jun Liu, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, Harvard University
- Xufeng Niu, Chair and Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- Xiaotong Shen, John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
1990
- Michael L. Beach, M.D., Ph.D.,Professor (Community and Family Medicine in Biostatistics; Anesthesiology), Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dartmouth Medical School
1989
- Mark S. Handcock, Professor, Department of Statistics, UCLA
- Valen E. Johnson, Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
- John E. Kolassa, Professor and Director of Graduate Program, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
- Louis P. Rizzo, Senior Statistician, Westat
1988
- Philip N. Norton, Vice Chairman, Midwest Region, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Chicago
- Stacy Neal Thomas
- Daming Xu, formerly Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
1987
- Thomas A. Severini, Professor, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
- Steven J. Skates, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Paul Vos, Professor, Department of Public Health, East Carolina University
1985
- Daniel F. Heitjan, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Southern Methodist University; Professor, O’Donnell School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- Theodore G. Karrison, Research Associate (Associate Professor) and Director, Biostatistics Lab, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
- Kim-Hung Li, Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Nathaniel Schenker, Adjunct Professor, JPSM; and Associate Director for Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland at College Park
1984
- Maureen Lahiff, Lecturer, Biostatistics, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, and Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
1983
- Susan Shott
1982
- Daniel W. Schafer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis
- Martin A. Tanner, Professor, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University
1981
- C. Hendricks Brown, Professor and Director, Prevention Science and Methodology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
- Pradip Kumar Sen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
1980
- James A. Fill, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University
- Robert E. Kass, Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
- Daniel M. Keenan, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
1979
- Kent R. Bailey, Senior Statistician, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Barbara R. Heller, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
1978
- Michael Friedman, Director of Biostatistics, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
- John I. Marden, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1977
- Andries G. De Wet
- Shang-Ping Lin
1976
- Lung Ying Lin, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Hsing University.
- Stella B. G. Machado, Director, Division of Biometrics VI, Office of Biostatistics Organization, US Food and Drug Administration
1975
- Suleman S. Verjee, Founder and CEO, Versante International, LLC
1974
- Robert E. Fay, III, Research Professor, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, and Senior Scientist, Westat
- James A. Koziol, Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation
- James McBride, Co-Director and Senior Author (retired), Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE), The University of Chicago
1972
- Timothy Tar Chen, Pastor, Grace Chinese Christian Church of Greater Memphis
- Henry T. Davis
- Alan R. Dyer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Jagdish C. Gupta
- James M. Landwehr, Director, Data Analysis Research, Avaya Labs
- John J. Wiorkowski, Professor, Department of Statistics, and Vice Provost, The University of Texas at Dallas
1971
- Francis Kinley Larntz, Jr. , Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota
- Divakar Sharma, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
- Ishay Weissman, Professor Emeritus, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
1970
- Shelby Haberman, Research Center Director, Statistics and Pyschometric Theory and Practice, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
- Don H. Miller
1969
- Jack Marshall
- Lalitha P. Sanathanan, Secretary, Statpharm, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Miron Straf, Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences
1968
- Charles E. Land, Health Statistician (Retired), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Institutes of Health
- James K. Yarnold
1967
- Rabindra N. Bhattacharya, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
- Beverley D. Causey, formerly, Statistical Research Division, Bureau of the Census; in memoriam, 2002
1966
- Richard Floyd Gundy, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
- Mitchell Snyder
1965
- Innis Gillian Abrahamson, formerly of Bell Labs
- Alastair John Scott, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Bruce E. Trumbo, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Mathematics, Department of Statistics, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA
1964
- Frank W. Carlborg, formerly, Statistical Consultant; in memoriam, 2014
- Heebok Park, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, California State University, East Bay
1963
- Robert K. Tsutakawa, formerly, Professor and Chairman, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri; in memoriam, 2012
- Johannes Hendrik Venter
1962
- John P. Gilbert
- Ying Yao
- Stephen R. Webb
1960
- Herbert T. David, University Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
- Bob E. Ellison
1958
- Morris H. DeGroot, formerly, University Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; in memoriam 1989
- Albert Madansky, Vice President, The Analytical Group, Inc., and H.G.B. Alexander Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
1956
- Roy Radner, Leonard N. Stern School Professor of Business, Information Systems Group, Information, Operations & Management Sciences Department, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University