Liza Levina

Liza Levina is the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan. She is affiliated with the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. Her expertise lies in high-dimensional statistical inference and statistical network analysis, with applications in neuroscience and imaging. She earned her PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2002 and has been at the University of Michigan since then.

Her research focuses on network analysis, statistical learning, and big data, particularly in neuroimaging. She has received notable awards, including the ASA Junior Noether Award, and is a Fellow of both the ASA and IMS. She was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians and an IMS Medallion lecturer.

Levina’s work bridges theoretical advancements and practical applications, such as analyzing brain connectivity networks and developing methods for community detection in complex systems. She has contributed to methodologies for network cross-validation, pseudo-likelihood approaches, and conformal prediction in network-assisted regression.

Her affiliations include leadership roles in the Department of Statistics and collaborations across interdisciplinary institutes. Her research has been recognized with prestigious acknowledgments, reflecting her impactful contributions to statistical science and its applications.