October 28, 2025Anand Vidyashankar's research looks at the legal and operational aspects of statistical privacy—developing frameworks that help organizations translate mathematical guarantees into verifiable compliance procedures.
October 7, 2025Betancourt is an expert in statistical and computational methods for data integration and network analysis, while Bai is an expert in large-scale, high-dimensional data and deep learning.
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, statistical computing, data integration, network modeling, small-area estimation, interdisciplinary work
Research Interests: Bayesian inference, deep learning, deep generative models, high-dimensional statistics, scalable algorithms, causal inference, survival analysis
May 12, 2025Statistics PhD candidate Shenghao Ye is the first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a prestigious journal, revealing how Tibetan women have adapted to thrive and reproduce successfully in high-altitude environments.
March 31, 2025Associate Professor Kenneth Strazzeri's innovative teaching methods and curriculum tweaks significantly improved student engagement and success in George Mason University's STAT 250 course, resulting in an impressive 80% attendance rate across its sections and a strong foundation in statistical concepts for nearly one thousand students each semester.
September 17, 2024The Department of Statistics’ Lily Wang and George Washington University’s Huixia Judy Wang are developing scalable, distributed computing methods to analyze large-scale spatiotemporal datasets. The collaborative research project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Research Interests: Big Data Analytics, probability distributions, Risk Management, and Insurance
June 21, 2024In the quest to combat Alzheimer's disease, George Mason professor Abolfazl Safikhani is working with neuroscientists and imaging experts at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) to pioneer groundbreaking advancements in biomarker identification.
May 29, 2024In two recent research projects, George Mason statistics professor Abolfazl Safikhani has applied machine learning tools to time series analysis of land use and real estate pricing to help decision-makers in urban planning and real estate.
