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 |
Jennifer Chayes | Professor | Probability theory, graph theory, graphons, mathematical statistical physics, and machine learning. |
Steven N. Evans | Professor | Probability and stochastic processes |
Vadim Gorin | Associate Professor | Integrable probability, random matrices, asymptotic representation theory |
Alan Hammond | 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 |
Faculty with Related Research Interests
Name | Title | Research Interests |
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Svetlana Jitomirskaya | Professor | Mathematical physics and dynamical systems |
Michael J. Lindsey | Assistant Professor | Numerical analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo methods |
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | Professor | Probability theory, Partial differential equations |
Nikhil Srivastava | Associate Professor | Theoretical computer science, random matrices, geometry of polynomials |
Graduate Students
Name | Dissertation Supervisor |
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Yulia Alexandr | Bernd Sturmfels, Serkan Hosten |
Brian Cruz | Steven Evans, Federico Ardila |
Rongyi (Amy) Dai | |
Ian Francis | |
Yujie Fu | |
Victor Ginsburg | |
Zoe McDonald | |
Zack McNulty | |
Rikhav Shah | |
Tianrui Xu |
Recent Ph.D.s
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Supervisor | Year |
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Emily Bain | Correlation functions of the two-periodic weighted Aztec diamond in mesoscopic limit | Nicolai Reshetihkin | 2023 |
Nicholas Bhattacharya | Making Sense of Protein Representation Learning in the Wild | Yun Song, Steven Evans | 2022 |
Theodore Zhu | Some Problems on the Convex Geometry of Probability Measures | James Pitman | 2022 |
Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham | Probabilistic Models and Statistical Tools for Gene Expression Analysis | Yun Song, Steve Evans | 2021 |
Milind Hegde | Probabilistic and geometric methods in last passage percolation | Alan Hammond, Shirshendu Ganguly | 2021 |
Satyaki Mukherjee | Pseudospectra of matrices and Point spectra of infinite graphs | James Pitman, Nikhil Srivastava | 2021 |
Peter Vinella | Coefficient Optimal Control Problems for Elliptic PDE | L. Craig Evans | 2021 |
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 |