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Riddhimoy Ghosh Receives the Graduate School Doctoral Fellow Award

Riddhimoy obtained a M.S. degree in Data Science from the University of Nebraska Omaha with a GPA of 4.00/4.00, and he was a second-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) at the time he applied to our doctoral program (mainly because of a pending closure of the department at UNL). In collaboration with his advisor, Riddhimoy co-authored the R package ABCel, which implements a novel entropy-based Approximate…

Yutong Hu
Yutong Hu Receives the Presidential Graduate Fellow Award

Receiving the most prestigious fellowship award available from UGA for incoming doctoral students, Yutong completed her B.S. in Data Science and Technology (Extended Major in Artificial Intelligence) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). At the time when she applied to our doctoral program, as an undergraduate student, she already had a peer-reviewed research article titled "Predicting PROTAC Off-Target Effects via…

JSM Reunion 2026
Reunion at JSM 2026 Brings Together Students, Alumni, Former and Current Faculty

The Department of Statistics hosted an Alumni Reunion Event at the recent 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts.  The event took place on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026 during the lunch hour at the Westin Boston Seaport District hotel, adjacent to the JSM venue. Over food and drinks, alumni of the department, former faculty members, current students, and a few guests mingled, reminisced about the department, shared news of…


Statistics Student Support Fund Scholarship

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that four students have recently received scholarship funded by the Statistics Student Support Fund. This fund was established in 2024 to support students pursuing degrees in the Department of Statistics.  Although the fund is open to contributions from various donors, it was established based upon the considerable generosity of Mr. Devdutt Yellurkar. In establishing the fund, Mr.…


BDAL Recognized for Two Papers at STAI-X 2026 Conference at Harvard University

UGA Statistics would like to share some exciting news from the Big Data Analytics Lab. Two of their papers were recognized at the STAI-X 2026 Conference (Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross-Domain Acceleration), held at Harvard University on July 31–August 1: Paper Award: “Wahkon: A Statistically Principled Deep RKHS Superposition Network” Paper Honorable Mention: “NeuroMAS: Multi-Agent Systems as Neural Networks with Joint Reinforcement…

Dr. Ting Zhang
Dr. Ting Zhang Appointed as Department Head

Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang on his appointment as Head of the UGA Department of Statistics, effective August 1, 2026.   Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of Chicago in 2012, where he was jointly advised by Professors Wei Biao Wu and Professor Lars Peter Hansen. Following faculty appointments at the University of Iowa and Boston University, he joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia…

Dr. Yuan Ke
Dr. Yuan Ke Joins JASA Editorial Board

Dr. Yuan Ke has recently accepted a role as Associate Editor for the Theory and Methods section of Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA). JASA is the flagship journal of the American Statistics Association and one of the very top research publications in statistics and data science.   Congratulations to Dr. Ke for being named to this prestigious position, which reflects his stature as one of the elite…

Dr. Ting Zhang
Dr. Ting Zhang receives NSF Award for Collaborative Research on Changepoint Analysis

Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang who was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the project entitled, Collaborative Research: Change Point Testing and Estimation with Irregular Signals.   The project aims to provide a systematic solution to the difficult problem of change-point detection under irregular signals. Unlike the traditional setting in which signals before and after the change point are often…

Dr. RJ Liu
Dr. Rongjie Liu Wins Sarah H. Moss Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. RJ Liu for receiving funding from the Sarah H. Moss Fellowship program!  The Sarah H. Moss Fellowships provide funds for travel and related expenses for tenure-track faculty of the University of Georgia pursuing advanced scholarship, research, and study in institutions of higher learning abroad and in the United States. Dr. Liu will use her award to support collaboration with Dr. Fei Jiang at the University of…

Dr. Lynne Billard
Data Science Symposium at UNSW Organized in Honor of Dr. Lynne Billard

Congratulations to Dr. Lynne Billard in whose honor the AI Institute of the University of New South Wales (Australia) is organizing a data science symposium on the topic of Statistical Analysis of Distributional Data. Details of the event can be found in the flyer linked here   The symposium will take place on Friday, August 21, 2026 at the UNSW campus in Sydney, Australia. Those interested in presenting at the event should submit their…
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