Jonathan P Williams

Brief biography
Welcome to my webpage! I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. My PhD is in Statistics from UNC at Chapel Hill, and I have an MS in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU.

Link: Curriculum Vitae
Link: Google Scholar Profile

Current research interests

• Foundations of statistics
• Conformal predictions
• Hidden Markov models
• Model/feature selection
• Medical science applications
• Conflict research applications

News

I’d like to recognize the following students on impressive job placements for the 2025-2026 academic year:
Salil Koner -- Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics at UC Riverside: website
Emmett Kendall -- Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences at UT Dallas: website
Neil Dey -- Machine Learning Engineer at Google: website

I have accepted an invitation to participate on-site at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, for the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) workshop: Game-Theoretic Statistical Inference: Optional Sampling, Universal Inference, and Multiple Testing based on E-Values, Sunday, June 29 to Friday, July 4, 2025!