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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! 

Grad Student Awards 2025
2025 Graduate Student Highlights

The year 2025 was a remarkable one for our graduate students — a year defined by creativity, hard work, and well-earned recognition. Luyang Fang, a fifth-year PhD student, received the prestigious James L. Carmon Scholarship, honoring her innovative use of computing in research. Shushan Wu, who finished her PhD in May 2025, was named winner of the 2025 ASA Student Paper Competition in the area of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics.…

Yuan Ke in Office
Recent News from the Ke Lab

Dr. Yuan Ke, together with Prof. Runze Li (Pennsylvania State University) and Prof. Stéphane Guerrier (University of Geneva), received a new research award from the joint program of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The funded project, titled “Tail-robust Analysis of High-dimensional Nonstationary Time Series,” supports a three-year international collaboration aimed at developing…

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The Department of Statistics Hosts a Record Number of Participants for GSD 2025

On Oct. 31, 2025, the Department of Statistics was pleased to again host Georgia Statistics Day (GSD). This conference was launched in 2015 as a joint effort by the UGA Department of Statistics, Emory University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and the Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering. These units have rotated the hosting of the event ever since, with a focus on…

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Capstone courses in statistics and data science recently featured by the Franklin College

We are pleased to have the department's capstone courses for our undergraduate majors in statistics and data science featured in Chronicles, the blog of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.  These courses provide great opportunities for our students to synthesize and extend their methodological knowledge and apply it to fascinating, real problems.  Read more here.

Jasmine Nguyen with Dean Stenport
Congratulations to Jasmine Nguyen for a strong showing in the Avant South's Innovation Cup competition!

Recently, college students from around the state of Georgia participated in Avant South's Innovation Cup. Teams competed to build apps that will serve fans and visitors to the upcoming World Cup with features to promote local businesses, facilitate fan-to-fan experiences, engage with young users, and provide smart city navigation. Among more than 300 participants, UGA students performed strongly. In addition to three School of Computing…
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