People Group Archives: Faculty

Florencio “Eloy” Hernandez serves as Director, guiding the transition to merge the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics and Data Science into a single school. This marks a significant step forward in unifying and advancing UCF’s quantitative sciences. Hernandez obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela) in collaboration […]

Education Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (2018) M.S., Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (2013) M.A., Mathematics, Central Department of Mathematics, Kathmandu, Nepal (2009) B.A., Mathematics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2005) Research Interest Actuarial Data Science Big Data Analytics Robust & Computational Statistics Statistical Learning Stochastic Optimization Professional Certification ASA – […]

Suyeon Kang is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Central Florida. Her primary research interests include multivariate analysis, sensitivity analysis, causal inference, and mixture models, with applications in disparities research, social sciences, and health sciences. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida. She earned her […]

Jialin Liu is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and a member of the AI Initiative at UCF. He earned his B.S. degree in Automation from Tsinghua University in 2015 and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2020. […]

Dr. HanQin Cai is currently the Paul N. Somerville Endowed Assistant Professor for Statistics, at UCF Statistics and Data Science. He is also the director of Data Science Lab. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from University of Iowa, where he also received two Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics respectively. Before […]

Rong Zhou received her M.S. in Statistics from South Dakota State University and wrote her thesis on comparison of software packages for detecting differentially expressed genes from single-sample RNA-seq data. She received her PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut and wrote her dissertation on the numerical simulation of cell movement along smooth […]

Larry Tang is a statistician specializing in statistical methodology and collaborative research. His current methodological research areas include statistical methods in forensics, diagnostic medicine, group sequential designs and substance abuse research and criminology.  He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Southern Methodist University in 2005. He did postdoctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at […]