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 |
| Alan Hammond | Associate Professor | Statistical mechanics, studied rigorously via modern techniques from mathematical probability |
| Michael J. Klass | Professor | Probability theory, Combinatorics |
| James Pitman | Professor | Probability, stochastic processes, combinatorics, machine learning |
Postdocs
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Tyler Helmuth | Postdoc | Statistical mechanics, probability |
| Insuk Seo | Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor | Probability theory, interacting particle systems, metastability |
Faculty with Related Research Interests
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | Professor | Probability theory, Partial differential equations |
| Nikhil Srivastava | Assistant Professor | Theoretical computer science, random matrices, geometry of polynomials |
| Luca Trevisan | Professor | Computational Complexity, Spectral Graph Theory |
Graduate Students
| Name | Dissertation Supervisor |
|---|---|
| Benson Au | Steven N. Evans |
| Nicholas Bhattacharya | |
| Justin T. Brereton | Daniel Tataru |
| Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham | |
| Milind Hegde | |
| Kenneth Hung | |
| Mikayla Kelley | |
| Satyaki Mukherjee | |
| Kyeongsik Nam | |
| Chanwoo Oh | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou |
| Chen Shen | Steven Evans |
| Peter Vinella | L. Craig Evans |
| Qiuyi Richard Zhang | |
| Theodore Zhu |
Recent Ph.D.s
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Wells Miller | L. Craig Evans | 2016 | |
| David C. Kaspar | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | 2014 | |
| Andrew J. Critch | Algebraic Geometry of Hidden Markov and Related Models | Bernd Sturmfels | 2013 |
| Alexandru Hening | Two Models of Default from Finance and a Model of Invasion from Ecology | Steven N. Evans | 2013 |
| Vladislav Voroninski | PhaseLift: A Novel Methodology for Phase Retrieval | John Strain, Emmanuel Candes | 2013 |
| Tonci Antunovic | Two Probabilistic Models of Competition | Sourav Chatterjee, Yuval Peres | 2012 |
