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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Mehrdad Mohammadi

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Learning, Nonparametric statistics, Incomplete Information, Applied statistical Machine Learning, Applied Econometrics

Education

Ph.D. Statistics , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2020 - Current
MS. Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign        2020 - 2023
MS. Statistics , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2020 - 2023
MA. in Economics and Econometrics , Pennsylvania State University2018 - 2020
MPhil. in Economics, LMEC, University of Bologna, Italy   2015 - 2018
B.Sc. Finance and Accounting, Petroleum University of Technology, Iran 2011 - 2015

Awards and Honors

University of Illinois, Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award, 2025
University of Illinois, Social Justice Bridge Builder Award, 2025
University of Illinois, Doctoral Student Leadership and Service Award, 2023
University of Illinois, Ph.D. Program Assistantship Funding, 2020-2025
University of Illinois, Block Grant Fellowship, 2020-2021
Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. Program Assistantship Funding, 2018-2020
University of Bologna, Best Student University-Wide Award 2017
University of Bologna Education Scholarship, 2015- 2017

Courses Taught

Instructor:

Stat 200 - Statistical Analysis [Listed as Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students]

Teaching Assistant:
Statistical Computing, Spring 2025
Data Science Exploration, Fall 2024
Probability and Statistics I, Spring 2024
Probability and Statistics II , Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
Applied Bayesian Statistics, Fall 2021
Methods of Applied Statistics, Summer 2021

Additional Campus Affiliations

SALAAM MENA Cultural Center Founding Member 
SALAAM MENA Cultural Center Inaugural Director Hiring Committee Member
Statistics Doctoral Student Association, Founder and President
Treasurer and Director, Iranian Heritage Foundation
Board Member and Interim Chair; Student Cultural Programming Fee

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Computing Applications Building, Room 156

605 E. Springfield Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820

(217) 333-2167

Email: stat-office@illinois.edu

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