Short bio
Liza Levina is the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, and affiliated faculty at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. She received her PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2002, and has been at the University of Michigan since, serving as the department chair from 2020 to 2025. Her research interests are in network analysis, high-dimensional statistics, statistical learning, and applications to neuroscience and imaging. Honors include a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, an IMS Medallion lecturer, and an ICM invited speaker.
Email: elevina@umich.edu | Office: 459 West Hall | Phone: +1-734-764-3235
Mailing address: Department of Statistics, 323 West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107