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Department of Statistics Featured in 2016 August Edition of the Innovation Gateway Newsletter!

Dr. Jennifer Kaplan and Department of Statistics PhD Student, Kristen Roland were featured in the August 2016 edition of the Innovation Gateway Newsletter. This monthly e-newsletter was started in 2015 to share the latest news from UGA's Innovation Gateway and to highlight faculty participating in UGA's mission to move new discoveries into the marketplace. Way to go Dr. Kaplan and Kristen on promoting the Department of Statistics!   You can…


A Discussion With 1996 ASA President, Lynne Billard

Please read an exciting discussion with 1996 ASA President, Lynne Billard, which appeared in the July 2016 issue of AMSTAT News. Congratulations, Lynne! 


Best Student Awards

Congratulations to all our students this year on their excellent acheivments within the department! Andrew Mullins was selected as the best MS Student, Chul Moon and Xinliang Zhang tied for the best beginning PhD student, and Fei Liu was selected as best Senior Student. We are so incredibly proud of all our winners. Congratulations again! 


Congratulations to the Winners of our Outstanding TA Awards!

Congratulations to our four statistics students who won the Outstanding TA Award. Alexei Ionan, Arunava Samaddar, Vineet Vora, and Chuck Wang all go above and beyond the duties of a TA to help and encourage all the students who they come in contact with. This is a University award, given to students who are in compliance with the University TA Policy and who are amont the best 10% of TAs at The University of Georgia. Congratulations again to…


Congratulations UGA Capital One Team!

Statistics students Xianyan Chen, Xiaodong Jiang, Jerry Shi, and Yang Song were one of the five finalist teams in teh Capital One Contest. The team members, along with advisor, Jaxk Reeves, were invited to Capital One headquarters from April 20-22, 2016. Here, they presented their analysis and were named first place winners in the competition! Congratulations to these students and Dr. Jaxk Reeves for this great achievemnet! 

Brooks Hall and SCC Door
Recent News of the SCC

The Department’s Newsletter has been on hiatus for a while, so let's catch you up on the SCC news. For those of you who don’t know, the “SCC” is the UGA Statistical Consulting Center. The Center, which I direct, is a unit of the Department of Statistics, but also a Core Facility of the UGA Office of Research. That means we serve the university’s research mission by providing statistical support to students, staff, and faculty investigators…

Deeya Datta receiving her award
Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 Award

Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 Award Data Science major Sloka Sudhin and Statistics major Deeya Datta were finalists for the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics. Deeya Datta earned the runner-up award. Congratulations to both Deeya and Sloka!      

Dr Chowdhury
Congratulations to Monsur Chowdhury

The Department of Statistics is very pleased to congragulate Dr Monsur Chowdhury, who was promoted to Senior Lecturer starting August 1, 2024. Congratulations Dr Chowdhury! 


UGA Statistics Department Faculty Searches Announcement

The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia is excited to announce two faculty searches for the positions of an Assistant Professor and a Program Coordinator for our Online MS in Applied Data Science. Interested applicants can find additional information here: Assistant Professor Program Coordinator Please reach out to Department Head, Dr Dan Hall (danhall@uga.edu) if you have any questions. 

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2024 David Lifsey Award Ceremony

Congratulations Nathan McEntire: On Thursday, September 12, 2024, Dr. Hall presented the "James David Lifsey Graduate Fellowship in Statistics and Data Science" to Mr. Nathan McEntire who is pursuing a master's degree in data science. Congratulations to Nathan and thank you to Mr. Lifsey for his continued generosity and support of the UGA Department of Statistics! Last year, on December 7th, Mr Lifsey also chose to commit an additional…
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