Research in Probability

Probability research at UC Berkeley is a joint activity of the Mathematics Department and the Statistics Department.  Please see the Probability section of the Statistics Department home page.

Senate Faculty

Name Title Research Interests
David Aldous Professor Theoretical and applied probability
Steven N. Evans Professor Probability and stochastic processes
Michael J. Klass Professor Probability theory, Combinatorics
Yuval Peres Adjunct Professor Probability theory and Hausdorff dimension
James Pitman Professor Probability, stochastic processes, combinatorics, machine learning

Postdocs

Name Title Research Interests
Matthias Morzfeld Postdoc Monte Carlo methods with application to geophysics

Faculty with Related Research Interests

Name Title Research Interests
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou Professor Probability theory, Partial differential equations

Graduate Students

Name Dissertation Supervisor
Andrew J. Critch Bernd Sturmfels
Bryan Gillespie
Alexandru Hening Steven N. Evans
David C. Kaspar Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Adam Lesnikowski
Lisha (Janet Xiang) Li
Vladislav Voroninski John Strain, Emmanuel Candes

Recent Ph.D.s

Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor Year
Tonci Antunovic Two Probabilistic Models of Competition Sourav Chatterjee, Yuval Peres 2012