Discoveries in our department, based on inferences and decisions from the data all around us, deliver research advances with a real-world impact in health care, finance, public life, technology and science.
Research Strengths
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Bayesian Statistics
- Causal Inference
- Longitudinal Analysis
- Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods
- Network Analysis
- Nonparametric Methods
- Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics
- Statistical/Machine Learning
- Time-Series Analysis
Centers, Institutes and Initiatives
Statistics and Data Sciences researchers participate in interdisciplinary efforts across campus to advance insights in areas such as machine learning, epidemiology and population research.
- Center for Health & Environment: Education and Research (CHEER) is a hub for multidisciplinary environmental health sciences research and education, bringing together experts from across UT Austin.
- Good Systems is working to establish a framework for evaluating, developing, implementing and regulating AI-based technologies so they reflect human values. It is a UT Austin Grand Challenge and part of its Bridging Barriers initiative.
- Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) represents a major UT Austin-led research initiative with TACC, the McDonald Observatory and faculty experts from across astronomy, physics, statistics and data sciences and more.
- Machine Learning Laboratory includes computer scientists, engineers, data scientists, statisticians and mathematicians from across campus and serves as the academic home for the NSF-funded Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning.
- Population Research Center includes researchers from across campus in areas such as demography; education, work and inequality; and population and reproductive health.
- Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is home to the world's most powerful university supercomputer.
Research News
Why Every Generation Needs to Care About Medicare
February 1, 2023 • by Layla Parast
Policy decisions centered on the federal health insurance program can have a wide-ranging impact.

Health Benefits of Wind Power Rely on Which Fossil Fuel Plants It Replaces
December 5, 2022 • by Staff Writer
Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, new study...

Can Dogs Take Bite Out of Neighborhood Crime?
July 28, 2022 • by Esther R Robards-Forbes

Adolescent Stress Can Be Reduced by 30-Minute Online ‘Mindset’ Training
July 8, 2022 • by Lauren Macknight

Layla Parast Aims to Improve Healthcare Using Biostatistics
April 5, 2022 • by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Demand for Abortion-inducing Medication Increases After Texas SB8
February 25, 2022 • by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

COVID Forecasting Method Proves It Can Reliably Guide City's Response
February 2, 2022 • by Lisa Lawrence

Jared Murray Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 5, 2022 • by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Antonio Linero Given NSF CAREER Award
January 3, 2022 • by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Arya Farahi receives Google Award for Inclusion Research
November 3, 2021 • by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
