Xindi Lin PhDx‘25 has earned the 2024 American Statistical Association (ASA) Student Paper Award for his work developing a novel method to analyze spatial point process data, or data detailing the precise locations of objects or events within a defined space. The paper is entitled “Efficient, cross-fitting estimation of semi-parametric, spatial point processes.” “It is …
H. Paul Beebe, a Department of Statistics information technology (IT) professional, has retired after a decades-long career serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Beebe has been an integral part of the UW-Madison community for decades, in both the Department of Computer Sciences (CS) and the Department of Statistics. His journey began in 1982 as an undergraduate …
The demand for data scientists—a role Harvard Business Review once famously dubbed “the sexiest job of the 21st century”—has never been higher. Today, seemingly every company, government, nonprofit, and university needs talented data scientists like Megan Hawley ‘23 to turn raw data into actionable insights. Hawley’s story illustrates the versatility of a data science degree …