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
• Imprecise probability
• Conformal prediction
• Hidden Markov models
• Transfer learning
• Medical science applications
• Conflict research applications

Collaborations: I often get email solicitations for collaborative work (from people in industry or students outside of NC State University) relating to my research. Please see my collaborations page: link

News

I will begin serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference in Winter 2026!

Check out my recent review of Roderick Little's book "Seminal ideas and controversies in statistics" (in press at JASA): website. I had been thinking along these lines for designing my next course, and once I read this book I instantly knew this is the inspiration I was looking for! Course proposal to come for Spring 2028, aimed at Statistics PhD students. Meanwhile, Professor Little will visit the NC State Statistics Department to give a seminar on this book in October 2026 - don't miss out!!

Congratulations to former student Alexander Muprh on his Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Dept. of Psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh, beginning Fall 2026: website

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!