Professor Bret Larget takes the helm as chair of the Department of Statistics
By Thomas Jilk The Department of Statistics is excited to announce that Professor Bret Larget has been named department chair after Professor Yazhen Wang concluded his three-year term this summer. Professor Larget will lead the …
Professor Matthias Katzfuss elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Department of Statistics Professor Matthias Katzfuss recently earned the prestigious honor of being elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world’s largest organization for statisticians. Our department extends its sincere congratulations to Professor …
Professor Yazhen Wang concludes transformative term as department chair, shifts focus to pioneering research
Professor Yazhen Wang has concluded the final academic year of a transformative three-year term as chair of the Department of Statistics. Under his leadership, the department dramatically increased the size of its student body and …
Carmela Diosana earns 2024 L&S Distinguished Achievement Advising Award
The Department of Statistics is excited to announce that Carmela Diosana, our academic advising manager, has received the 2024 Distinguished Achievement Advising Award from the College of Letters & Science (L&S). Diosana has served as …
Department of Statistics honors outstanding teaching assistants for 2023-2024
Each year, the Statistics Department’s Teaching Assistant (TA) Committee selects a group of outstanding TAs to recognize for their invaluable service to the department and the university. Awardees demonstrate dedication, professionalism, and a genuine passion …
Statistics faculty members awarded American Family Insurance research funding
Two researchers in the Department of Statistics are among nine campus investigators whose projects were awarded funding in the latest round of the American Family Funding Initiative, a unique sponsored research partnership between American …
Department of Statistics celebrates hundreds of spring 2024 graduates
On Wednesday, May 8, the Department of Statistics community gathered to celebrate a total of 647 new alumni, including 566 undergraduates and 81 graduate students, across the department’s array of academic programs. The department’s spring …
Faculty Q&A: Sameer Deshpande on the present and future of sports analytics
In recent decades, sports has become an increasingly popular domain for applying advanced statistical techniques. The world of sports analytics has exploded, and its takeoff was just beginning as Assistant Professor Sameer Deshpande was starting …
Kris Sankaran investigates how AI can help predict specific flood risks
Assistant Professor Kris Sankaran has contributed his expertise to the new book, AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health, published by Microsoft this month. In the book, an esteemed group of artificial …
UW–Madison to name new Computer, Data & Information Sciences building for John and Tashia Morgridge
For the first time, a University of Wisconsin–Madison building will bear the name of John and Tashia Morgridge, alumni and visionary partners to UW–Madison, who have for decades made significant contributions to the university, beginning …
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Statistics Seminars
- September
- September 11Statistics Seminar Identifying Socially Disruptive Policies by Eric Auerbach4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
- September 18Statistics Seminar Is your data alignable? A geometric view of single-cell data integration by Rong Ma4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
- September 25Statistics Seminar Robust Knockoffs Inference with Coupling by Yingying Fan4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
CDIS Related Events
- September
- September 9Research Cyberinfrastructure Virtual Office Hours (FREE and Online)Learn about ResearchDrive, Research Object Storage (S3), Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data Science Platform, Cloud Services1:00 PM, Online
- September 9Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarMax Lahn (Michigan) - Which Reducible Representations are Anosov?2:25 PM, B325 Van Vleck Hall
- September 9Combinatorics SeminarPaul Terwilliger - The nucleus of a Q-polynomial distance-regular graph2:25 PM, VIRTUAL