The Ph.D. program in Statistics emphasizes both theoretical and applied statistics as well as its application in other academic disciplines, across sciences, social sciences and health sciences. It aims to coach and train candidates for both academic and professional careers in the rapidly growing fields of statistics and data science. This program is designed to serve a broad range of the applications of advanced statistics in big data analytics such as data mining, machine learning, etc. Furthermore, the program focuses on the development of statistical models and statistical learning to cope with unstructured data which generally violate the data assumptions and include complex features and huge dimensions.