Category: News and announcements

Fetch – MADISON’S TECH UNICORN: The Highs and Lows of Growth

      As part of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences’sRED Talks series, Wade Bruce shares insight from his career including his current position as chief technology officer at Fetch. Wade will be speaking on the highs and lows that come with extreme growth within the tech industry. He’ll dive into scale …

Chanwoo Lee won the 2023 ASA Student Paper Award from Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Section

We are happy to share that our 5th year PhD student Chanwoo Lee won the 2023 ASA Student Paper Award from Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Section for his paper entitled “Statistical and computational rates in high rank tensor estimation”. This paper is a joint work with Prof. Miaoyan Wang. Chanwoo has won many awards …

Kwangmoon Park Wins 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper Award

Kwangmoon’s paper entitled “Joint tensor analysis of single cell 3D genome and epigenetic data with Muscle” has been selected for 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper Award. Congratulations Kwangmoon! He will present this work at both ENAR and JSM this year. He happens to be an excellent speaker with …

Data Science Hub Research Bazaar

UW–Madison’s Data Science Hub is hosting the fourth annual Research Bazaar, focused on the theme of Information Insights: Shaping Futures with Data and Computing, Feb. 22-23. The Research Bazaar will include lightning talks, interactive discussions, workshops, and a poster session focused on data science and computing for researchers. In addition, it will feature a career panel …

Innovative New Diagnostic Test for Sjögren’s Syndrome has taken top honors from WARF

Sara McCoy, associate professor of rheumatology; Miriam Shelef, associate professor of rheumatology; Michael Newton, professor of biostatistics and medical informatics; and statistics graduate student Zihao Zheng for their work. Learn More

Hack the Hiring Process: US Cyber Command inspires civilian service in the cyber domain and “demystifies” the civilian hiring process.

Hack the Hiring Process: US Cyber Command inspires civilian service in the cyber domain and “demystifies” the civilian hiring process. Date: Web, Nov 9 2022, 1:00-2:30PM CT.  Once registered, you will receive a link via email within 48 hours of the event. Register

School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences (CDIS) Career Fair

All Students and Alumni from UW Madison Department of Statistics are encouraged and welcome to attend the annual School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences (CDIS) Career Fair. It will be held in Varsity Hall at Union South on Wednesday September 28th, 2022 between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.

JSM next week in Washington DC

In case you are participating in JSM next week in Washington DC, please visit the Wisconsin Reception on Tuesday evening, August 9, 6:00-7:30 pm; it’s program event 223834, in the M-Capitol Hill room. Connect with students, faculty, and alumni from Statistics and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics. I hope to see you there! Michael & Yazhen

Faculty Corner

Assistant Professor Miaoyan Wang received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award Higher-order tensor datasets are rising ubiquitously in modern data science applications. Tensor provides an effective representation of data structure that classical low-order methods fail to capture. However, empirical success has uncovered a myriad of new challenges. Miaoyan Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of …

2022-2023 Statistics Department Seminars

Jianhua Huang: September 15, 2021 Abstract: Estimation of distances of galaxies is one essential component to determine the age and composition of our Universe. The Triangulum Galaxy (catalogued as M33) is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, and one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked …