Shankar Bhamidi

Professor · Department of Statistics and Operations Research · UNC Chapel Hill

I am a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I joined UNC in July 2009, after a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 under the supervision of David Aldous.

I work in both probability and statistics, with research interests in stochastic processes, random graphs, and evolving network models. I am especially interested in problems that originate in applied areas of science and for which probability can provide useful and non-trivial insight. More broadly, I try to identify unifying mathematical ideas that can be brought to bear on a wide range of problems.

This site contains further information about my research, publications, teaching, and professional activities.

A current CV can be found here.

Current Highlights

  • Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Associate Chair for Research, Department of Statistics and Operations Research
  • Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Probability
  • Associate Editor, Statistical Science
  • Chern Professor, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Spring 2025