Scotland Leman

Email: lemanvt.edu
Website
Virginia Tech
Status: Faculty
Department: Stat,
Will Mentor: Doctoral students, Pre-doctoral students

Areas of Expertise

Mathematical Statistics, Applied Statistics,

Research Interests

Bayesian Statistics
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Visualization
Human Computer Interaction
Forecasting
Prediction
Analytics
Large-Scale and Unstructured Inference

Bio

Scotland Leman is an Asociate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech and the Director of Graduate Studies in Statistics.

His main research interests include Bayesian statistics on both a theoretical and inferential level; MCMC mixing theory; data augmentation for efficient simulation; and large-scale stochastic modeling. Additionally, he has a strong interest in visualization techniques, which involve Human-Computer-Interaction.

He earned a master of science degree in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.