DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND BIOSTATISTICS OFFICE

Office Staff (Sci N 229)

Ayona Chatterjee

Ayona Chatterjee

Title: Department Chair & Associate Professor

Office: Sci N 229

Email: ayona.chatterjee@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-4133

Degree: PhD 2005 U. of Edinburgh

Interests: Bayesian Statistics, Big Data, Dietary Risk Assessment

Advising/Coordination: MS Biostatistics co-advisor

Jamane Joseph

Title: Administrative Support Coordinator

Email: statistics@csueastbay.edu

Phone: (510) 885-3435

Graduate Faculty – Graduate and Undergraduate Courses

Sheng-Hua (Kelly) Fan

Sheng-Hua (Kelly) Fan

Title: Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 318

Email: kelly.fan@csueastbay.edu

Website: https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/stat/fanshenghua.html

Phone: 885-3428

Degree: PhD 1999 U. of Minnesota

Interests: Clinical Trial Design, Precision Medicine, Applications of Bayesian Statistics 

Advising / Coordination: On leave for academic year 2024-2025

Eric Fox

Eric Fox

Title: Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 303

Email: eric.fox@csueastbay.edu

Website: https://ericwfox.github.io/

Phone: 885-4905

Degree: PhD 2015 University of California Los Angeles

Interests: Spatial statistics, point processes, and statistical learning

Advising / Coordination: Undergraduate Advisor

Joshua Kerr

Joshua Kerr

Title: Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 243

Email: joshua.kerr@csueastbay.edu

Website: https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/stat/kerrjoshua.html

Phone: 885-3626

Degree: PhD 2006 UC Davis

Interests: Statistics Education, Time Series, Data Science

 Advising / Coordination: MS Statistics and Certificate Advisor.  MS Biostatistics co-advisor.

Taejoon Kim

Title: Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 225

Email: taejoon.kim@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-xxxx

Degree: PhD 2023 Kansas State University

Interests: Machine Learning, Statistical Language Modeling, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Zero Inflated Models, Large Scale Computing, Deep Learning Models, High Dimensional Data Analysis, Statistical Applications in Epidemiology and other domains.

Advising/Coordination: Undergraduate Advisor

Wendy Moore

Title: Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 243

Email: wendy.moore@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-3617

Degree: PhD 2021 UC Irvine

Interests: Statistics Education, Longitudinal Data Analysis

Advising / Coordination: Undergraduate Advisor

Jiyoun Myung

Jiyoun Myung

Title: Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 319

Email: jiyoun.myung@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-xxxx

Degree: PhD 2017 University of Florida

Interests:  Small Area Estimation, Bayesian Statistics, Nonparametric Bayesian Statistics.

Advising / Coordination: Undergraduate Advisor

Eric Suess

Eric Suess

Title: Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 319

Email: eric.suess@csueastbay.edu

Website: http://cox.csueastbay.edu/~esuess/

Phone: 885-3879

Degree: PhD 1998 UC Davis

Interests: Data Wrangling, Data Visualization, Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, AI, LLMs, Probability Simulation, Time Series Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, MCMC, Statistical Computing, Linux, R, Python, Keras, Tensorflow, h2O, Cloud Computing, ollama

Advising / Coordination: Undergraduate Advisor

YanYan Zhou

YanYan Zhou

Title: Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 318

Email: yanyan.zhou@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-4609

Degree: PhD 2002 U Maryland-Baltimore

Interests: Clinical trials, Sustainability, and Design of Experiments

Advising / Coordination:  Undergraduate Advisor

Li Zou

Li Zou

Title: Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: Sci N 303

Email: li.zou@csueastbay.edu

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Li_Zou3

Phone: 885-3100

Degree: PhD 2018 State University of New York, Buffalo

Interests: Nonparametric Statistical Methodology, Large Sample Theory, Empirial Likelihood, History of Probability and Statistics

Advising / Coordination: Minor Advisor and Undergraduate Advisor

Lynn Eudey

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Biostatistics

Office: Sci N 243

Email: lynn.eudey@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-3617

Degree: PhD 1988 UC Berkeley

Interests: Biostatistics, Experimental Design, Clinical Trials, Survey Sampling

Note:  On leave for Fall 2019

Mitch Watnik

Mitchell Watnik

Title: Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs

Office: SA 4505

Phone: 885-4130

Degree: PhD 1996 UC Davis

Interests: Regression/ Econometric Modeling, Computational Statistics, Statistical Education

Lecturers – Upper and Lower Division Undergraduate Courses

Staffan Fredricsson

Office: Sci N 225

Email: staffan.fredricsson@csueastbay.edu

Phone: 885-4832

Degree: PhD

Emeritus Faculty

Richard Drogin

Degree: PhD Stat UC Berkeley

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Statistical consulting, Stochastic processes dkstat

Dean Fearn

Degree: PhD 1971 UC Davis

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Branching processes, Biostatistics

Richard Kakigi

Degree: PhD Stat UC Berkeley

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Statistical consulting, Stochastic probability dkstat

Elliott Nebenzahl

Degree: PhD 1970 U Minn.

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Nonparametric Statistics, Reliability

Julia Norton

Degree: PhD 1977 Harvard U

Title: Professor Emerita of Statistics

Comments: Multivariate Statistics, Statistical Computing

Michael Orkin

Degree: PhD 1970 UC Berkeley

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Game Theory, Decision Theory

Heebok Park

Degree: PhD Stat U Chicago

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Applied statistics, Bayesian methods

George J. Resnikoff

Degree: PhD Stat Stanford U

Title: Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Comments: Founding Chair Statistics Department (1963)

Clyde Sugahara

Degree: PhD Statistics, UC Berkeley

Interests: Probability theory, Stochastic processes