Category: Graduate Student

Jonquil Liao PhD x’26 never thought twice about coming to Madison from Hangzhou, China, where she began her undergraduate degree. With a long-held fascination for statistics, Liao was considering pursuing a graduate degree in the United States.  Then, in 2019, an opportunity presented itself for Liao to transfer to UW-Madison in her third year of …

Susan Glenn PhDx’24 has always been fascinated by data and its hidden patterns. As an undergraduate studying mathematics and economics at the University of Washington, Glenn gradually began to realize that statistics was her favorite aspect of both majors. “Statistics is especially fun because you have this extra piece, which is randomness,” Glenn said. This …