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AI is reshaping medicine, helping researchers and practitioners make better predictions, understand diseases in new ways, and personalize treatments. For instance, Google’s DeepMind won the 2024 Nobel Prize for creating AlphaFold, an AI system that …

Data is central to scientific research, especially as the digital revolution enables researchers from across fields to collect, analyze and distribute troves of data in ever-more sophisticated ways. Scholars in virtually every discipline, including those …

Yalei Zhao x’25, a Statistics and Mathematics double major at UW–Madison, was recently honored with the Trewartha Senior Honors Thesis Research Award from the College of Letters & Science (L&S). The grant recognizes outstanding undergraduate …

This past fall, faculty and graduate students from the Department of Statistics, and other units at UW–Madison, participated in an intensive semester-long research program hosted by the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics …

The Department of Statistics is proud to celebrate our newest class of 186 extraordinary graduates. The group includes those earning bachelor’s degrees and certificates in Data Science and Statistics, in addition to several students obtaining …

Associate Professor Jessi Cisewski-Kehe has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty members. Her research is focused on developing innovative methods using Topological Data Analysis (TDA), …

Tom Erickson, executive associate dean for strategy and innovation and founding director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s College of Letters & Science, has announced he …