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Jointly with Dr. Eben Kenah at Ohio State University (lead PI), Drs. Yang Yang and Liang Liuwere awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project entitled, "Phylogenetics, causal inference, and model diagnostics for longitudinal studies of infectious disease transmission and control". This project will develop analytic, diagnostic, and causal inference tools for studying the transmission dynamics of…

As many of you probably know, the UGA Statistical Consulting Center (or SCC) is a unit of the Department of Statistics as well as a Core Facility of the UGA Office of Research. Its mission is to both support the university’s research mission by providing statistical support to students, staff, and faculty investigators across campus, and to provide training and practical experience to our staff of student consultants and our student volunteers…

The Department of Statistics' International Potluck Dinner was held recently!   This annual event is sponsored and organized by the Stat Club. It offers a great opportunity for students, faculty, and their families to get together to share food, culture, and fellowship. This year, 15-20 participants took part, contributing some delicious food from all over the world. Highlights included Laura Mathews Quinoa Salad, Aditya Mishra's Aaloo…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Congratulations Blake Gee and Kevin Kerguelen! James David Lifsey Graduate Fellowship in Statistics and Data Science 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…