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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! 

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…


Congratulations to Drs. Lynne Seymour and Rongjie Liu!

Please join us in congratulating: Dr. Lynne Seymour on her promotion to Professor                 Dr. Rongjie Liu on her promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure                 Congratulations, you two! You both make UGA Statistics proud!
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