After receiving his PhD, Pavel was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Institute – Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in Rockville, MD, until he was appointed Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wyoming.

Dr. Pavel Chernyavskiy joined the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in January 2021. His methodological work is motivated by the analysis of correlated data, broadly construed. Correlated data arise from taking multiple observations on the same subject or cluster of subjects, taking observations near one another in space, in time, or jointly in space and time. His research interests consist of the subject of health disparities, population health, non-stationary spatial correlation, intervention efficacy. His areas of collaborative research have spanned public health, education, psychology, and ecology, to name a few.