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 |
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David Aldous | Professor Emeritus | Theoretical and applied probability |
Steven N. Evans | Professor | Probability and stochastic processes |
Alan Hammond | Associate Professor | Statistical mechanics, studied rigorously via modern techniques from mathematical probability |
Michael J. Klass | Professor Emeritus | Probability theory, Combinatorics |
James Pitman | Professor | Probability, stochastic processes, combinatorics, machine learning |
Visiting Faculty
Name | Title | Research Interests |
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Alec Kercheval | Visiting Scholar | Financial mathematics |
Philip Matchett Wood | Lecturer | Probability theory, combinatorics |
Postdocs
Name | Title | Research Interests |
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Erik Bates | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow | Probability theory, mathematical physics |
Faculty with Related Research Interests
Name | Title | Research Interests |
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Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | Professor | Probability theory, Partial differential equations |
Nikhil Srivastava | Associate Professor | Theoretical computer science, random matrices, geometry of polynomials |
Melanie Matchett Wood | Professor | Number theory |
Graduate Students
Name | Dissertation Supervisor |
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Nicholas Bhattacharya | |
Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham | Yun Song, Steve Evans |
Ian Francis | |
Milind Hegde | |
Satyaki Mukherjee | |
Peter Vinella | L. Craig Evans |
Theodore Zhu |
Recent Ph.D.s
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Supervisor | Year |
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Kyeongsik Nam | Singular stochastic differential equations with elliptic and hypoelliptic diffusions | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | 2020 |
Kenneth Hung | Topics in Conditional Inference | David Aldous, William Fithian | 2019 |
Chanwoo Oh | Metastability of Zero Range Processes | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | 2019 |
Chen Shen | Fluctuation Analysis of Order Positions Under General Cancellations | Steven Evans | 2019 |
Qiuyi Richard Zhang | Fast Algorithms for Interior Point Methods | 2019 | |
Benson Au | Rigid structures in traffic probability: with a view toward random matrices | Steven N. Evans | 2018 |
Justin T. Brereton | A method of constructing invariant measures at fixed mass | Daniel Tataru | 2018 |
Christopher Wells Miller | Methods for Optimal Stochastic Control and Optimal Stopping Problems Featuring Time-Inconsistency | L. Craig Evans | 2016 |