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 advanced biomedical research and drug discovery by accurately predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences, a previously slow and …
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 at UW–Madison, can now harness innovative statistics and data science approaches to answer questions like “Why do birds make so …
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 research proposals and empowers L&S Honors Program students to conduct more extensive senior Honors thesis research projects than would otherwise …
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 (ICERM) at Brown University, entitled Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics. Among the program’s organizers were two UW–Madison faculty …
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 graduate degrees. Our graduates have bright futures ahead as leaders in the rapidly growing, interconnected fields of data science and …
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), which enables researchers to look for patterns in noisy datasets by scrutinizing the shape of the data in space—and looking …
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 in statistics and biomedical data science, has served on the faculty at Stanford University since 2004, where he remains a …
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 will step down from his leadership roles effective January 2025. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, the Grace Wahba and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …
Some students skip calculus class, even when required to attend. Valeria Diaz Moreno x’26 flipped that script: she snuck into a university calculus class before she was old enough to enroll. Growing up in Medellín, Colombia, Moreno said, many schools tended to “place a lot of importance on the humanities,” rather than science and mathematics. …