The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Werner Ploberger, Ph.D., joins the department of economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. He earned a doctorate in applied mathematics at Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1981 and a Habilitation in Econometrics there in 1993. He has been affiliated with Vienna University of Technology, the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and the University of Rochester. He was tenured in 1993 (Vienna) and promoted to full professor in 1995 (University of St. Andrews). He has been at the University of Rochester since 1997. His research focus is in the areas of statistics, econometric methodology and time-series econometrics.
Stephen Williamson, Ph.D., joins the department of economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. He earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 and has since been affiliated with Queen’s, Western Ontario, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Iowa. He was tenured in 1989 (Western Ontario) and promoted to full professor in 1992 (Iowa). He served as department chair at Iowa (2000-03). He is co-editor for Economic Theory and associate editor for Journal of Monetary Economics and Review of Economic Dynamics. His research is mainly on macroeconomics, monetary economics and financial economics.
Jimin Ding, Ph.D., joins the department of mathematics in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. Ding earned a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Davis, under the guidance of Jane-Ling Wang. She works in a modern form of survival analysis using techniques that will be applicable to many other areas of statistics.
Xiang Tang, Ph.D., joins the department of mathematics in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He was previously a visiting research professor at the University of California, Davis. He earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under Alan Weinstein. His areas of expertise are noncommutative geometry, symplectic geometry and quantization. He worked on mathematical problems in statistical thermodynamics while still an undergraduate at Peking University.