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Shuchi Goyal received a special scholarship from the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Statistics, where she was recently admitted into the doctoral program starting Fall 2018. She looks forward to pursuing her PhD in statistics and is particularly interested in the analysis of multidimensional data sets and identification of causational relationships. Congratulations, Shuchi! Rachel Zilinskas a special PhD Dean Scholar award…

Catherine Case has been selected by the Honors Program Teaching Awards Committee as the recipient of the 2018 J. Hatten Howard III Award. This is a significant award as it recognizes her special promise in teaching Honors courses early in her career. Congratulations Catherine!

UGA Statistics students attended the ASA Travel Course on "An Introduction to the Analysis of Incomplete Data" taught by Professor Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut on March 24, 2018, at Georgia Tech. This event was sponsored by the Georgia Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Statistics student Shuchi Goyal is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2018. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. As a CURO Research Assistant, Shuchi will continue her research on small area estimation, which she has been working on for the past six months under the guidance of Drs. Abhyuday Mandal and Gauri Datta. The purpose of this research is to extend the nested-error…

Rui Xie, a Ph.D. Graduate Student and Big Data Analytics Lab Research Assistant, received the second prize for his poster titled, “Online Sequential Leveraging Sampling Method for Streaming Time Series Data” at the Georgia Statistics Day 2017 held at Emory University on October 9, 2017. Rui is working this research project under the advisement of Professor Ping Ma and Professor TN Sriram. Congratulations, Rui! Cheng Meng and Chul Moon…

Xiaoxiao Sun's paper "An asympirical smoothing parameters selection appproach for SS-ANOVA models in large samples" has been selected as one of the winners of this year's student paper competition from the Section on Statistical Computing. The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings held in Vancouver from July 28-August 2. Congratulations Xiaoxiao on this great acheivement!

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The Department of Statistics congratulates Dan Hall, Abhyuday Mandal, Cheolwoo Park, and Wenxuan Zhong on their recent promotion to the rank of Full Professor and Pengsheng Ji on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. This is an impressive slate of promotions for our department and represents the extraordinary caliber of our faculty at every stage of their careers. We all have reason to be very proud of their superior…

Rhiannon Euhus is a fourth year undergraduate student in the Statistics department. This semester, Rhiannon participated in a national research paper competition with the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime, and won an award for a research paper she wrote entitled “Health Status and Healthcare Access of Incarcerated Women.” She attended the conference in Philadelphia to accept the award. Rhiannon plans to…