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Maduranga, Abhyuday, and Nick!
Congratulations, Maduranga, Abhyuday, and Nick!

The grant proposal titled “Equitable Statistics Education through Active Learning” led by team facilitators, Maduranga Dassanayake and Abhyuday Mandal, and the STAT 2000 Coordinator, Nick Toebben, has been awarded the inaugural Active Learning Change Grants from UGA. This award is especially noteworthy since only one active learning change grant was funded! The project will provide more effective learning experiences for students in all large-…

2023 STAT Student Awards
Congratulations to the 2023 Graduate Student Award Recipients!

The Department of Statistics presented their 2023 awards to outstanding graduate students within the Department.  Congratulations to all the winners! Outstanding Teaching Awards (framed certificates presented on behalf of the Center for Teaching and Learning) 1.  Ryan Sledge, 2nd year MS student 2.  ShiYuan Deng, 4th year PhD student 3.  KaiWen (Kevin) Han, 5th year PhD Student Statistical Consulting Awards (framed…

Ping Ma headshot
Congratulations to Ping Ma!

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its new Fellows for 2022, which includes UGA's Ping Ma.  Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of sciences or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues. Congratulations to Dr. Ma!  


Congratulations to Statistics faculty!

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty members: Yuan Ke and Qian Xiao on their promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Ting Zhang on attaining tenure status at the rank of Associate Professor. Maduranga Dassanayake on his promotion to Senior Lecturer. Mark Werner on his promotion to Principal Lecturer. Mark is also the first Principal Lecturer in the Department of Statistics.  All promotions are…
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Photograph of Maduranga Dassanayake
Congratulations, Maduranga!

Maduranga Dassanayake received the 2023 General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award. This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction.

Elise Karinshak
Congratulations, Elise Karinshak

Elise Karinshak, a senior majoring in Data Science and Marketing, has been selected as a Schwarzman Scholar, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships. Elise is one of the 151 candidates, selected from 36 countries and 121 universities around the world, who will receive the opportunity to study in a one-year, fully-funded Master’s degree program at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. UGA News Article

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Congratulations to Mickey Dunlap!

Dr. Mickey Dunlap recently received the Award of Excellence for Teaching presented by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tifton Campus. Congratulations, Dr. Dunlap! This semester, we have 120 graduate students on the Tifton campus.  One of the biggest frustrations our graduate students encountered in the past is that they were required to spend a semester on the Athens campus just to take a…

UGA Students receiving awards
Congratulations to UGA Students!

Congratulations to Huimin Cheng, Yiren Hou and Ella Wileman for winning the Best Poster Awards at the 2022 Georgia Statistics Day held at the University of Georgia! Congratulations to Yongkai Chen receiving the honorable mention! Undergraduates Names Posters Yiren Hou Overall ranking of populations using Bayesian methods Ella Wileman Sex education and its future implications in physical health of American students Graduates Names…

Yiren Hou Wins award
Yiren Hou wins AISC2022 Award

Statistics Student Yiren Hou won the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 2022 International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics. See this for more details. Congratulations, Yiren.

Lauren in front of her poster of work
Lauren Rose Wilkes participated in MIT REU

Congratulations to our Data Science student Lauren Rose Wilkes who got selected to the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at MIT. In Summer 2022, she worked under the supervision of Dr. Aleksander Madry in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. There she investigated machine learning model robustness in image classification by identifying the effect of poisoning the images most influential to the model prediction. Her…
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