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Morgridge Hall Progress Update: March 2025

Faculty Q&A: Ben Lengerich on the power of AI in medicine

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 science club hackathon enables hundreds of UW–Madison students to create and innovate together

‘On the cutting edge’: Statistical Consulting Group enhances diverse research projects across UW–Madison campus

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 …

Statistics major Yalei Zhao wins prestigious undergraduate thesis award

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 …

Statistics researchers thrive in pioneering semester-long research program on statistical genomics

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 …

Celebrating winter 2024 graduates from the Department of Statistics

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 …

Faculty Q&A: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe on winning NSF CAREER Award

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), …

Statistics alum and renowned researcher Wing Hung Wong wins CDIS Distinguished Achievement Award

Wing Hung Wong PhD ‘80, one of the world’s premier scholars in statistics and bioinformatics, has received an inaugural Distinguished Achievement Award from the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS). Wong, a luminary …

Erickson steps down, Arpaci-Dusseau to lead School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences

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 …