Department welcomes two new faculty members
The Department of Statistics welcomes Assistant Professor Yang Chen and Assistant Professor Jonathan Terhorst.
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Research Assistant Professor of MIDAS
Yang Chen received her Ph.D. (2017) in Statistics from Harvard University and joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Research Assistant Professor at the Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS). She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Research interests include computational algorithms in statistical inference and applied statistics in the field of biology and astronomy.
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Jonathan Terhorst received his Ph.D. (2017) in Statistics from UC Berkeley and joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor of Statistics. He is broadly interested in applications of statistics and machine learning to problems in biology, with a particular emphasis on statistical and population genetics.
