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 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 | Probability theory, Combinatorics |
| James Pitman | Professor | Probability, stochastic processes, combinatorics, machine learning |
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 |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Bhattacharya | |
| Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham | Yun Song, Steve Evans |
| Ian Francis | |
| Milind Hegde | |
| Kenneth Hung | |
| Mikayla Kelley | |
| Satyaki Mukherjee | |
| Kyeongsik Nam | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| David C. Kaspar | Fraydoun Rezakhanlou | 2014 |
