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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! 


The UGA Department of Statistics Welcomes 4 New Faculty for the 2025-26 Academic Year

Dr. Prince Allotey joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia as a Lecturer in August 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Connecticut. Before joining UGA, he served as a Senior Instructor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina and as an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Allotey is passionate about teaching and enjoys mentoring students…

Daniel Hall and Blake Gee
2025 David Lifsey Award Ceremony

Congratulations Blake Gee! The Department of Statistics is happy to announce Mr. Blake Gee as the recipient of the 2025 James David Lifsey Graduate Fellowship in Statistics and Data Science. Blake is a UGA "Double Dawg", meaning that he will finish his bachelor's and master's degrees in an accelerated five-year program. A double major in economics and statistics as an undergraduate, Blake is now in the master's program in data science and…

Bella Salter
Bella Salter Wins Fall 2025 Graduate School Doctoral Fellowship

Bella Salter is a doctoral student with the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include mathematical statistics, especially time-series analysis, and applications in emerging fields. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in May 2025, majoring in both Mathematics and Computer Science and minoring in Statistics. During her time there, she found a passion for enriching their…

Dr. Abhyuday Mandal
Dr. Abhyuday Mandal Receives 2025 Outstanding Chapter Service Award From the ASA

Dr. Abhyuday Mandal has been recognized with the 2025 Outstanding Chapter Service Award for serving as ASA Georgia Treasurer since 2018, spurring chapter growth, launching the Winter Lecture Series, leading Georgia Statistics Day, and strengthening university engagement, as well as long-term sustainability. Congratulations, and thank you, Dr. Mandal!

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
UGA Statistics Alum, Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Please join us in congratulating UGA Statistics' 2006 PhD graduate, Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay!  As a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Bandyopadhyay has recently been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a tremendous accomplishment, and we are proud that the UGA Department of Statistics had some small role in his development as a…
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