Ilya Zaliapin

Our group

Anna Panorska

Tomasz Kozubowski

Javier Rojo

Kyle Bradford

Interests:Survival Analysis, Nonparametric Function Estimation, Statistical Decision Theory, Random Matrices, and Dimension Reduction Techniques

Application Areas: Genetics, Biology, Lifeline systems, Dynamics of Commerce, Health (Obesity Crisis in Mexico and Latin America)

PhD UC Berkeley 1984

Publications: 4 books (editor) 80 research papers

Research Grants

Javier Rojo

Javier Rojo

Interests: Distribution Theory, Stochastic Processes, Limit Theory for Random Sums, Heavy Tailed Distributions, Mathematical Statistics, Financial & Insurance Mathematics, and Fractal Processes

Application Areas: Insurance, Finances, Economics, Climate, Geosciences, Hydro-Climatic Phenomena

Tomasz Kozubowski

PhD UC Santa Barbara 1992

Tomasz Kozubowski

Publications: 2 monographs 80 research papers

Research Grants

Interests: Limit Theory; Heavy Tailed Distributions; Sums and Maxima of Random Variables, Mathematical Statistics, Extreme Events

Application Areas: Climate, Weather, Hydrology, Finance, Insurance, Biology, Environmental Science, Atmospheric Science, Wildfires

PhD UC Santa Barbara 1992

Publications: 50+ research papers

Research Grants

Anna Panorska

Anna Panorska

Interests: Random Self-Similar Networks and Trees, Aggregation and Branching Processes, Network Transport, Multiscale Time Series Analysis, Random Sums of Heavy Tailed Random Variables

Application Areas: Geophysics (Seismology, Hydrology, Climate), Biology, Finance

PhD Russian Ac. Sci. 1999

Publications: 1 book (editor) 45 research papers

Research Grants

Ilya Zaliapin

Ilya Zaliapin

Interests:Large Deviations, Poisson Clumping, Adiabatic Evolution, Coupling Techniques

Application Areas: Wireless Communications

PhD Oregon State U 2013

Publications: 6 research papers

Kyle Bradford

Kyle Bradford

• Hydrology: flood/drought models, surface water models, water quality

modeling, Tahoe basin work, self-similar geometry of river networks and deltas, environmental transport, hydro-ecology

• Seismology/Geodynamics: earthquake clustering; modeling earthquake moment

release; aftershock detection; earthquake forecasting; brittle-ductile interactions

• Climate/Geography: El-Nino modeling, hydrologic/climate extremes,

paleoclimate models

• Biostatistics/Epidemiology: time-to-event models, modeling protein motors

• Finance/Insurance: large variability processes, stock-market volatility

Applications

Career Opportunities

International Game Technology

Academy Industry Consulting Government

Bally’s Technologies

Teaching

Undergrad:

STAT 152 Introduction to StatisticsMATH/STAT 352 Probability and Statistics

Grad:

STAT 452/652 Statistics: Continuous MethodsSTAT 453/653 Statistics: Discrete MethodsSTAT 461/661 Probability TheorySTAT 462/662 Introduction to Stochastic ProcessesSTAT 467/667 Statistical Theory

MATH 753 Stochastic Models and SimulationSTAT 754 Mathematical StatisticsSTAT 755 Multivariate Data Analysis STAT 756 Survival AnalysisSTAT 757 Applied Regression AnalysisSTAT 758 Time Series Analysis