Faculty & Staff

Faculty Advisers for the Mathematical Decision Sciences

The following faculty are those to whom students may be assigned when they choose to major or minor in the MDS program. However, anyone on the faculty of the Department of Statistics & Operations Research can serve as an adviser. For example, students working on honors projects can choose their project adviser as their academic adviser as well.  

Nilay Argon, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, nilay@email.unc.edu, Operations Research

Shankar Bhamidi, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, bhamidi@email.unc.edu, Statistics

Amarjit Budhiraja, Professor, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, budhiraj@email.unc.edu, Actuarial Science, Statistics.

Charles Dunn, Lecturer, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, cwd0926@aol.com, Actuarial Science.

Pipiras Vladas, Director of the Mathematical Decision Sciences Program and Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, pipiras@email.unc.edu, Statistics, minors.

Scott Provan, Professor, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, provan@email.unc.edu, Operations Research, 5-year BS-MS Program.

Staff:

Alison Kieber, MDS-Administrative Services, 323 Hanes Hall, kieber@email.unc.edu