People

Professors

Chan Hock Peng
Professor
Head of Department

E-mail: stachp@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Change-Point Detection, Sequential Testing

Adrian Roellin
Professor

E-mail: staar@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Stein’s Method and Applications, Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases

Alex R Cook
Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: stacar@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Bayesian inference, Statistical modelling of infectious diseases and ecological processes, Design of experiments

Choi Kwok Pui
Professor

E-mail: choikp@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Poisson Approximation

Li Jialiang
Professor

E-mail: jialiang@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Semiparametric Models, Diagnostic Medicine, Statistical Methods or Epidemiology

Loh Wei Liem
Professor

E-mail: weiliem.loh@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistics, Applied Probability

Maria De Iorio
Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: mdi@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, Bayesian nonparametrics, Biostatistics and Computational methods

Teo Yik Ying
Professor
Joint Appointment

E-mail: yyteo@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistical Genetics, Genomewide Association Studies

Toh Kim Chuan
Provost’s Chair Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: mattohkc@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Scientific Computing, Numerical Optimization

Xia Yingcun
Professor
Deputy Head

E-mail: staxyc@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Semiparametrics, Nonlinear time series, Epidemic Modelling, Dimension Reduction Space

Zhang Jin-Ting
Professor

E-mail: stazjt2020@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation, Functional Data Analysis and Longitudinal Data Analysis, Nonparametric Mixed-effects Models for Longitudinal Data

Zhou Wang
Professor

E-mail: wangzhou@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Brownian motion, Stochastic Loewner Evolution

Associate Professors

Alexandre Hoang Thiery
Associate Professor
Dean's Chair Professor (2022-2025)

E-mail: a.h.thiery@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Monte Carlo methods, Computational Statistics, Inverse problems, Data Assimilation, Machine Learning

Bibhas Chakraborty
Associate Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: bibhas.chakraborty@duke-nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Dynamic Treatment Regimes, Design of Adaptive Clinical Trials, Mobile Health Causal Inference, Statistical Learning and Biomedical Data Science

Chen Ying
Associate Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: matcheny@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Quantitative Finance, Risk Management, Local Parametric Estimation, Independent Component Analysis, Heavy-tailed Distribution

David John Nott
Associate Professor
Deputy Head

E-mail: nott_david_john@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Bayesian Model Selection, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Hierarchical Models, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Spatio-temporal Modelling

Gan Fah Fatt
Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: gan.fah.fatt@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistical Process Control

Geraldine Wong
Adjunct Associate Professor
GXS Bank, Chief Data Officer

E-mail: gwong@nus.edu.sg

Hernandez Marin Sergio
Associate Professor (Practice Track)

E-mail: sergio.hm@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Causal attribution, Synthetic data, NLP, Machine Learning as a Service, AI-powered Analytics, Predictive AI Models, AI interpretability, Data Privacy and Data Protection

Jonathan Goeke
Adjunct Associate Professor
Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Group Leader

E-mail: goeke@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Methods development and analysis of third generation long read transcriptomics data

Li Cheng
Associate Professor
Assistant Head

E-mail: li.cheng@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Scalable Bayesian methods, Bayesian nonparametrics, Quasi-Bayesian inference, High dimensional modeling

Lim Tiong Wee
Associate Professor (Educator Track)
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies)

E-mail: tiong_wee_lim@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Application of Math/Probability to finance, Stochastic Control

Markus Kirchberg
Adjunct Associate Professor
Potion, Head of Artificial Intelligence
Wismut Labs, Chief Executive and Technology Officer

E-mail: markus.kirchberg@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Synthetic Media, Generative AI (Audio & Video)

Yao Zhigang
Associate Professor

E-mail: zhigang.yao@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Interaction Between Statistics and Geometry, Non-Euclidean Statistics

Yap Von Bing
Associate Professor

E-mail: vonbing@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics, Sequential Analysis, Quantitative Reasoning

Yu Tao
Associate Professor

E-mail: yu.tao@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Neuroinformatics, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Model, Non- and Semi-parametric Estimation & Inference

Zhao Jingyuan
Adjunct Associate Professor
Great Eastern, Group Chief Data Officer

E-mail: zhaojy@nus.edu.sg

Assistant Professors

Alexander Giessing
Assistant Professor

E-mail: giessing@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Gaussian and Bootstrap Approximations, Analysis of missing/incomplete Data, Quantile Regression, Semiparametric Inference, and Empirical Process Theory

Chua Alvin J. K.
Assistant Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: alvincjk@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Gravitational-wave astrophysics and data analysis; data science and machine learning; applied and computational statistics

Huang Dongming
Assistant Professor

E-mail: stahd@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Statistical Learning, Bayesian Statistics

Lin Zhenhua
Assistant Professor
NUS Presidential Young Professorship

E-mail: linz@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Functional, Non-Euclidean, High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Michael Choi
Assistant Professor

E-mail: michael.choi@yale-nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Markov processes, stochastic algorithms, statistical physics, applied probability, stochastic optimization and information theory

Somabha Mukherjee
Assistant Professor

E-mail: somabha@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Non-parametric testing and variable selection, high-dimensional central limit theorems, shape-restricted regression, inference in Markov random fields, random graphs and statistical physics

Subhroshekhar Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: matghos@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Stochastics, including problems from mathematical statistics and the math of data

Sun Baoluo
Assistant Professor

E-mail: stasb@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Causal Inference, Missing Data, Statistical Learning

Swapnil Mishra
Assistant Professor
Courtesy Appointment

E-mail: swapnil.mishra@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Infectious Disease Modelling, Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling, Renewal Processes, Stochastic Point Processes, Generative Deep Learning, Online Information Diffusion, Bayesian Phylogenetics

Tan Siew Li, Linda
Assistant Professor

E-mail: lindatan@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, variational approximation and stochastic optimization methods, statistical network modelling

Tan Yan Shuo
Assistant Professor

E-mail: yanshuo@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistical machine learning, theory and methodology of decision trees and random forests, causal inference

Wang Wanjie
Assistant Professor

E-mail: wanjie.wang@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistical Inference, Sparse and Weak Signals Inference; Statistical Learning Theory, Matrix Recovery; Methodology on Genetics and Genomics Random Matrix Theory

Zhao Anqi
Assistant Professor

E-mail: staza@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Causal inference, Experimental design

Zhou Doudou
Assistant Professor

E-mail: ddzhou@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics, Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data Analysis, Reinforcement Learning, Change-point Detection

Senior Lecturers

Chia Hui Teng
Senior Lecturer

E-mail: htchia@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistical literacy, Sense-making, Visual Analytics

Chua Bee Luan
Senior Lecturer

E-mail: chuabl@nus.edu.sg

David Chew
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Head

E-mail: david.chew@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Computational Biology

Heaukulani Creighton Koapono
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, Senior Assistant Director

E-mail: ckheau@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Bayesian machine learning

Jiang Qian
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Standard Chartered Bank, Director, Algorithmic Trading Quant

E-mail: iris.jiang@nus.edu.sg

Lee Joon Sern
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Ensign InfoSecurity, Senior Director (Machine Learning and Cloud Research)

E-mail: js_lee@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Real world applications of AI

Pham Thi Kim Cuc
Senior Lecturer

E-mail: pham.kimcuc@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Empirical likelihood, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Approximate Bayesian Computation, Statistical Pedagogy

Vikneswaran S/O Gopal
Senior Lecturer
Assistant Head

E-mail: vik.gopal@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Simulation Techniques, Sequential Predictions, Spatio-temporal Modeling

Vishal Sharma
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
H2O.ai, Lead Data Scientist

E-mail: v.sharma@nus.edu.sg

Wang Wei Yang
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Grab, Lead Data Scientist

E-mail: wy.wang@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Particle physics, applied machine learning, network analysis, agent based modelling and system dynamics simulation

Young Lee
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
AI Scientist, Roche AG, Singapore

E-mail: younglee@nus.edu.sg

Lecturers

Huang Yuting
Lecturer

E-mail: yhuang@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Applied econometrics and international trade

Emeritus and Honorary Fellows

Anthony Kuk Yung Cheung
Emeritus Professor

E-mail: Anthony_Kuk@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Analysis of Clustered and Longitudinal Data, Monte Carlo methods of inference, Survival Analysis, Survey Sampling, Missing Data Problems

Chen Hsiao Yun, Louis
Emeritus Professor

E-mail: matchyl@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Probability, Stein’s method, probabilistic number theory

Chen Zehua
Emeritus Professor

E-mail: stachenz@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: General Statistical Methodology, Statistical Genetics, Microarray Analysis

Chua Tin Chiu
Honorary Fellow

E-mail: stactc@nus.edu.sg

Instructors and Teaching Assistants

Valerie Lim
Adjunct Instructor
Apple, Data Solutions Lead

E-mail: val.hy@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Fraud detection, Risk management, Sense-making

Wong Yean Ling
Instructor

E-mail: wyl@nus.edu.sg

Research Interests: Statistical Pedagogy

Chan Jing Ting Vivian
Teaching Assistant

E-mail: vivian.c@nus.edu.sg