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Roy Wilkes
Forrest (Roy) Wilkes Receives a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award

Forrest (Roy) Wilkes has been awarded a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award to pursue research in Bayesian Ranking and Optimization under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal. His work focuses on developing statistical methods that improve the reliability of rankings derived from limited or noisy data by explicitly incorporating uncertainty through Bayesian modeling. In particular, he will construct a double stochastic rank matrix and develop an R…

Significance of Findings
Department of Statistics Hosts 2026 ASA DataFest

Each year, the American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsors a two-day data science competition and "celebration of data" known as ASA DataFest.  Founded in 2011 at UCLA, this event has grown dramatically, expanding to many host institutions across the country each spring. While the UGA Department of Statistics has participated in ASA DataFest in the past, 2026 was the first time the department has hosted the event. And we went all in!…

Dr. Prince Allotey
Prince Allotey Elected to ASA Position

In a recent American Statistical Association (ASA) election, Dr. Prince Allotey was elected Council of Sections Representative for the ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education. This post has a three-year term starting in 2027.  Dr. Allotey is very active in the ASA and other professional organizations in our discipline. In addition to his newly elected position as ASA Council of Sections Representative, he is a member…

Convocation
2026 Statistics Convocation celebrates the achievements of graduates in statistics and data science

On May 7, the Department of Statistics hosted its annual Convocation event in Sanford Hall. This year separate ceremonies were held for undergraduates receiving their BS in either statistics or data science (or, in one student's case, both!) and graduate students receiving master's or PhD degrees in one of these disciplines.         The undergraduate ceremony featured speeches by two graduating seniors, Ms. Aarushi Modi, a…

RJ Liu
Congratulations to Dr. Rongjie (RJ) Liu, recipient of an NSF CAREER Award!

UGA Statistics Assistant Professor, Dr.  RJ Liu, was recently informed that her proposal, AI-Driven Multimodal Feature Engineering for Personalized Biomedical System Design, has been funded under the NSF's highly prestigious CAREER grant program. The project will span five years with a total award amount of $546,167. This is a fantastic achievement that recognizes and invests in Dr. Liu's outstanding ongoing program of research and…

Angelina Garcia
Congratulations to McNair Scholar Angelina Garcia!

Angelina Garcia, a junior from Bethlehem, GA working on her BS in Statistics and MS in Statistics in the UGA Double Dawg program, has been selected to participate in the McNair Scholars Program. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase the number of underrepresented students in doctoral programs. In Summer 2026, Angelina will be working with Department of Statistics faculty members Dr. Gauri Datta and Dr. Abhyuday Mandal…

Industry Day 2026
Georgia Statistics Industry Day Connects Students with Real-World Applications

The University of Georgia Department of Statistics hosted its annual Industry Day on March 19, welcoming Dr. Ryan Lekivetz, Director of Advanced Analytics R&D at JMP, for a full day of discussions, student meetings, and a departmental colloquium. The event brought together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and research staff for a series of activities designed to bridge the gap between academic training and industry practice.…

Roy Wilkes
Congratulations Roy Wilkes!

Congratulations to Roy Wilkes, a Statistics major, on being awarded the Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship at UGA and named a Stamps Scholar by the Stamps Scholars Program! His Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship provides four semester stipends from fall 2026 through spring 2028. As a Stamps Scholar, Roy joins a national community with special programming and opportunities, supported through the partnership between the Stamps Scholars Program and leading…

RJ Liu
Dr. Rongjie Liu Awarded Interdisciplinary Seed Grant

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rongjie Liu for being awarded an Interdisciplinary Seed Grant from the UGA Institute of Artificial Intelligence.    Along with collaborators Chao Huang from the UGA College of Public Health and Tianming Liu from the UGA School of Computing, RJ received funding for a project entitled,  AI-driven multimodal biomarker discovery and reasoning in depression and related mental health disorders.…

Sloka Sudhin
Sloka Sudhin Wins Presidential Award of Excellence

Congratulations to Sloka Sudhin on being selected for the Presidential Award of Excellence—one of the University of Georgia’s most distinguished honors for undergraduate students!   The Presidential Award of Excellence is awarded to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, strong extracurricular involvement, and/or service  to and engagement within their respective…
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