CDIS Spring Career Fair

Don’t Miss the Spring Career Fair When Tuesday, February 15th Time 10 AM – 5 PM – Where Union South All UW students and recent alums with skills and interest in careers in computer, data or information sciences are encouraged to attend. Companies at the Career Fair will range from start-ups to industry leaders and …

M.S. Statistics, Data Science (MSDS) Program Info Sessions

MSDS is an on-campus master’s degree program that combines a background in statistical theory, methods and practice related to data science with communication skills to train a new generation of leaders who will use data effectively for planning and decision making. Register to attend a Zoom info session to learn about the program, application process, …

HBCU Data Science Consortium Data Science Celebration

The HBCU-DSC is inviting you to participate in their 1st Annual HBCU Data Science Consortium Data Science Celebration, to be held virtually on February 4-5, 2022. In particular, they are inviting undergraduate and graduate students to submit research posters to be presented during our Student Poster Session on Saturday, February 5, 2022 https://whova.com/web/closi_202201/ The HBCU …

Connect with Google Program

Connect with Google Program Happy New Year, and we hope the first newsletter of 2022 finds you well! As we return to school and work, it’s a great time to reset intentions and start preparing for upcoming spring and summer opportunities. We’re excited to bring you the latest developments from Google! This month: – Register …

PhD student Jiaxin Hu received the ASA 2022 Best Student Paper Award

We are glad to share that our PhD student Jiaxin Hu received the 2022 Best Student Paper Award – Honorable Mention – in American Statistics Association (ASA) Statistical Learning and Data Science Section. The award comes with a JSM talk and $500 monetary prize.  

Register for UW-Madison’s third annual Data Science Research Bazaar

UW–Madison’s Data Science Hub is hosting its third annual Data Science Research Bazaar, focused on the theme of Data and Communities: Sharing and Protecting Data. This event will be held virtually throughout February. The Research Bazaar will include lightning talks and interactive discussions on a variety of topics relating to how communities use and are …

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 Statistics at UW–Madison, has just received a CAREER award–the most …

100 students declared in the Data Science certificate!

The Department of Statistics is excited to share that as of December 17, 2021, we have officially declared 100 students in the Data Science certificate! Here is a quick breakdown of our students this semester. • Academic Level – 1 Freshman, 11 Sophomores, 41 Juniors, 47 Seniors • School/College – 6 CALS, 13 Engineering, 54 …

Two of Statistics students named among the three IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awards

Our PhD students, , received the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Awards. This inaugural award was given to three PhD students among the entire IMS community. We are excited to learn that all three recipients this year are our students/alumnus: Chan Park is a final-year PhD student advisor by Prof. …

RED Talk by Young Mie Kim, Professor at School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison

Join CDIS for a virtual RED Talk by Young Mie Kim, Professor at School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison. Kim will discuss the impact of political disinformation on elections, role of digital platforms in enabling undisclosed political campaigns to spread furtive messages, share her work in developing a tracking tool and using reverse engineering to uncover …