Mathematics and statistics

This group comprises research and experimental development in mathematics and statistics.

Parent Category

Natural sciences

Sub-Categories

Pure mathematics

Applied mathematics

Statistics

Open Research Positions in Mathematics and statistics

Graduate Degree Programs in Mathematics and statistics

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Finance (PhD)

The PhD Program in Business Administration welcomes applications from individuals planning research-oriented academic careers. As well as gaining access to a world of knowledge and opportunity, Sauder PhD students benefit from the individual attention they receive from faculty members - right from...

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD)

Mathematicians use theoretical and computational methods to solve a wide range of problems from the most abstract to the very applied. UBC's mathematics graduate students work in many branches of pure and applied mathematics. The PhD program trains students to operate as research mathematicians....

Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics (PhD)

Established in 1983, the Department of Statistics at UBC is internationally renowned for its excellence in research and the high calibre of its faculty members. Our programs offers students different options for pursuing their interests and professional goals. Students completing our PhD program...

Master of Data Science (MDS)

The UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) is a 10-month professional degree program. The MDS program was developed by the combined expertise of the UBC departments of Computer Science and Statistics to help meet a growing need for data scientists by producing skilled professionals who can turn data into...

Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics (MDSCL)

Passionate about language and curious about data? UBC's Master of Data Science degree in Computational Linguistics is the credential to set you apart. Offered at the Vancouver campus this unique degree is tailored to those with a passion for language and data. Over 10 months, the program combines...

Master of Science in Business Administration in Finance (MSCB)

Aimed at students interested in research, the UBC MSc in Business Administration is a challenging and rigorous program designed to prepare students for a PhD program and a subsequent career in academia. As an MSc student, you will not only become part of a rich and stimulating academic community...

Master of Science in Mathematics (MSc)

Mathematicians use theoretical and computational methods to solve a wide range of problems from the most abstract to the very applied. UBC's mathematics graduate students work in many branches of pure and applied mathematics. The MSc program consists of 24 or 27 credits of taught classes and a...

Master of Science in Statistics (MSc)

UBC Researchers conducting research in Mathematics and statistics

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Alacaoglu, Ahmet

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical optimization; Machine learning; Mathematical operations research; Numerical optimization; Machine Learning; Stochastic algorithms; Min-max games; Monotone operator theory

Auger-Methe, Marie

Department of Statistics, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Fisheries sciences; Statistics; Zoology; Animal movement; Polar ecology; Statistical Ecology

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Bachmann, Sven

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Mathematical Analysis; quantum phenomena; Mathematical physics; Quantum statistical physics; Topological states of matter

Bryan, Jim

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Algebraic and differential geometry; Algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, enumerative invariants related to theoretical physics.

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Cautis, Sabin

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Geometry

Cembrowski, Mark Steven

Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Molecular neuroscience; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mechanisms of memory in the brain; Anxiety; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Cell types; Computation; CRISPR-Cas9; Fear; Genetics; modeling; Neural circuits; neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq

Chen, Jiahua

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistical theory and modeling; empirical likelihood; finite mixture model; sample survey; asymptotic theory; imputation

Chen, Jingyi

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Algebraic and differential geometry; Differential Geometry, Partial Differential Equations

Coombs, Daniel

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical biology; Cellular immunology; Complex physical systems; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell biophysics; Disease models; Epidemiology; Immune cell signalling; Mathematics

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Dao Duc, Khanh

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation

Dijols, Sarah

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mathematics and statistics; representations of reductive groups over p-adic fields; Number theory; Langlands Program

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Feng, James

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Chemical engineering; Mathematics and statistics; Biophysics; Complex fluids; Fluid mechanics; Mathematical biology

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Gao, Lucy

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistics; Selective Inference; Inference x Unsupervised Learning; Statistics x Optimization

Greif, Chen

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Numerical computation; Numerical analysis; scientific computing; numerical linear algebra; numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations

Gustafson, Paul

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistics; meta-analysis; Parametric and Non-Parametric Inference; Theoretical Statistics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Bayesian statistical methods; Biostatistics and Epidemiology; Causal inference; Evidence synthesis; Partial Identification

Gustafson, Stephen James

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Mathematical Analysis; Differential Equation; Global and Non-Linear Analysis; Mathematical physics; Nonlinear partial differential equations; Nonlinear waves; Topological solitons

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Hauert, Christoph

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Modelization and Simulation; Evolution and Phylogenesis; Biological Behavior; dynamical systems; evolution; game theory; social dilemmas; stochastic processes

Holmes-Cerfon, Miranda

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical modelling and simulation; Computational methods in statistics; Numerical analysis; Thermodynamics and statistical physics

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Joe, Harry Sue Wah

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistics; Statistics and Probabilities; copula construction; dependence modelling; extreme value inference; non-normal time series; parsimonous high-dimensional dependence

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Karim, Ehsan

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biostatistical methods; Survey methodology and analysis; Statistical learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Public and population health, n.e.c.; Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis

Korthauer, Keegan

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Genomics; Statistics; Epigenomics; Single-cell analysis; Statistical genomics

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Lague, Marysa

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Climate modelling; Environmental monitoring; Atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics; Planetary atmospheres studies; Atmospheric sciences, n.e.c.; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mathematical biology; Other natural sciences, n.e.c.; Climate Modelling; Land-atmosphere interactions; Climate Dynamics; Climate; Planetary Science; Atmospheric dynamics; Water, Ice, Landscapes; Climate: Science, Change, Action; Earth System Modelling

Lam, Tzeng Yih

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Quantitiative methods in forestry; Forestry management and environment; Statistical theory and modeling; Survey methodology and analysis; Bayesian Filtering; Forest Inventory; Growth and Yield; Sampling Theory; silviculture; Timber; Tree Measurement

Loewen, Philip

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical optimization; Calculus of Variations; Optimal Control; optimization; Machine Learning

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McDonald, Daniel

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

High dimensional data analysis; Computational methods in statistics; Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Methods and models for epidemiological forecasting; Estimation and quantification of prediction risk; Evaluating the predictive abilities of complex dependent data; Application of statistical learning techniques to time series prediction problems; Investigations of cross-validation and the bootstrap for risk estimation

Murugan, Mathav

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; boundary theory; Metric geometry; potential theory; probability theory and analysis; quasiconformal mappings; relationship between behavior of Markov processes and the geometry of the underlying state space; Sandpile models

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Nolde, Natalia

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistics; Statistics and Probabilities; Applications in finance, insurance, geosciences; Multivariate extreme value theory; Risk assessment

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Ollivier-Gooch, Carl

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Aerodynamics (except hypersonic aerodynamics); Computational fluid mechanics; Algorithm Development for Computational Fluid Dynamics; Applied Aerodynamics; Numerical analysis; Unstructured Mesh Generation; Error and Stability Analysis for Unstructured Mesh Methods; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Fluid mechanics

Ortner, Christoph

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Numerical analysis; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Computational chemistry; Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory; Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing; Applied Analysis; Multi-scale Modelling and Coarse-graining; Molecular Simulation; Scientific Machine-learning, in particular for applications in multi-scale modelling

Oya, Simon

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Privacy-enhancing technologies; Cybersecurity and privacy technologies; Signal processing for security and privacy; Encryption and cryptography; Mathematical optimization; Privacy; Computer Security; Anonymous communications; Machine learning security and privacy; Searchable encryption; Statistical analysis

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Paat, Joseph

Division of Operations and Logistics, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematical optimization; Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Mixed integer programming; Combinatorial optimization; Polyhedral Geometry; Convex optimization

Park, Yongjin

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other basic medicine and life sciences; High dimensional data analysis; Biostatistical methods; Bioinformatics; single-cell genomics; Computational Biology; Causal inference; Bayesian machine learning

Pleiss, Geoffrey

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Computational methods in statistics; Spatial statistics; Numerical analysis; Machine Learning; neural networks; Gaussian processes; Bayesian optimization; reliable deep learning

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Reichstein, Zinovy

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Group theory and generalisations; Algebra; Algebraic groups; algebraic geometry

Robeva, Elina

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Algebra; Algebraic statistics; Graphical Models; Tensor decomposition; Causality; Applied algebraic geometry; Shape-constrained density estimation; Tensor networks

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Schiebinger, Geoffrey

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genomics; Mathematics and statistics; Applied & Theoretical Statistics; Computational Genomics; data science; Genetics; Genome Sciences; Machine Learning; Measurement technologies; Models Inference and Algorithms; Single-cell RNA sequencing; Theory of Statistics

Shmerkin, Pablo

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Metric and fractal geometry; fractal geometry; Harmonic Analysis; ergodic theory; Connections with additive combinatorics and probability

Silberman, Lior

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; Analysis on manifolds; Automorphic forms; Group Theory; Homogenous dynamics; Metric geometry; Number theory; Representation Theory; Topology

Steif, Adi

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Algorithms and computational genomics; Genomics; Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer progression and metastasis; Statistical methods for high throughput data; High dimensional data analysis; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Cancer Genomics; Single cell sequencing; Tumour evolution; Genomic technology development

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Tang, Xin

Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Artificial intelligence (AI); Cell biology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Mathematical biology; Genetics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Cancer; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Explainable and Interpretable Learning, Representation Learning, Knowledge Distillation; Biologically Informed Neural Network, Physically Informed Neural Network; Knowledge Distillation, Biological LLM, Biomedical Image Processing; Computational Cell Biology, Single-cell Biology, Multi-omics, Virtual Cell, Spatial Omics; Brain-Computer Interface, Neuroscience, Brain Mapping; Cancer Genomics, Development, Aging

Tsai, Tai-Peng

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Mathematical physics

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van Willigenburg, Stephanie

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; algebraic combinatorics; Coxeter group; quasisymmetric function; Schur functions and generalizations; chromatic symmetric function

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Walji, Nahid

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Watson, Liam

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Topology; Low-dimensional topology; Khovanov homology; Heegaard Floer homology

Welch, William

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computational methods in statistics; Computer experiments; Design and analysis of experiments; Statistical machine learning; Environmental modellign

Williams, Ben

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory

Wong, Hubert

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Biostatistical methods; Clinical trial design

Wu, Lang

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biostatistical methods; Longitudinal data analysis, mixed effects models, missing data, hypothesis testing, biostatistics

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Zahl, Joshua

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; Lie groups, harmonic and Fourier analysis; Harmonic Analysis; Combinatorics; Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry

Zumbo, Bruno

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychological methodology design and analysis, and psychometrics; Statistical theory and modeling; Educational assessment and evaluation; Psychometrics and Test Theory; Mathematical sciences of measurement; Latent Variable Models, Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis, Mixed models; Validity Theory and Validation; Multivariate Analysis

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