UGA Statistics PhD student, Shushan Wu, has been honored as one of the award recipients of the 2025 Student Paper Competition in the area of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics, sponsored by the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics.
Shushan was recognized for her lead-authored paper, Fisher Contrastive Learning: A Robust Solution to the Feature Suppression Effect. For more information about the…
On Tuesday, December 3, we held our Virtual Open House for Prospective Graduate Students via Zoom. If you were unable to attend, but would like to gather information and view the session for yourself, please click here.
The Department’s Newsletter has been on hiatus for a while, so let's catch you up on the SCC news. For those of you who don’t know, the “SCC” is the UGA Statistical Consulting Center. The Center, which I direct, is a unit of the Department of Statistics, but also a Core Facility of the UGA Office of Research. That means we serve the university’s research mission by providing statistical support to students, staff, and faculty investigators…
Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 and GSD2024 Award
Data Science major Sloka Sudhin and Statistics major Deeya Datta were finalists for the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics. Deeya Datta earned the runner-up award. Congratulations to both Deeya and Sloka!
Deeya also won the Best Undergraduate Student Poster award at the 2024 Georgia Statistics Day…
The Department of Statistics is very pleased to congratulate Dr. Monsur Chowdhury, who was promoted to Senior Lecturer starting August 1, 2024.
Congratulations, Dr. Chowdhury!
The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia is excited to announce two faculty searches for the positions of an Assistant Professor and a Program Coordinator for our Online MS in Applied Data Science.
Interested applicants can find additional information here:
Assistant Professor
Program Coordinator
Please reach out to Department Head, Dr Dan Hall (danhall@uga.edu) if you have any questions.
Congratulations Nathan McEntire:
On Thursday, September 12, 2024, Dr. Hall presented the "James David Lifsey Graduate Fellowship in Statistics and Data Science" to Mr. Nathan McEntire who is pursuing a master's degree in data science. Congratulations to Nathan and thank you to Mr. Lifsey for his continued generosity and support of the UGA Department of Statistics! Last year, on December 7th, Mr Lifsey also chose to commit an additional…
Starting in June of 2024, Dan Hall has become the Department's new Interim Department Head. He succeeds TN Sriram in this position, who did a wonderful job from July 2018 - 2024. The Department holds high expectations for Dan in this important position.
The UGA Stat department is delighted to announce the hiring of both Dr. Jinae Lee, the new Associate Director of the Statistical Consulting Center, and Rongjie Liu, our newest Assistant Professor.
Before Dr Lee joined our department, she conducted vaccine-related research by leading clinical trial projects within the Biostatistics and Data Management Department at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), a United Nations-affiliated NGO…
YongKai Chen successfully defended his dissertation titled “Novel Statistics and Quantum Computing Methods with Application in Biological Data” on Friday, July 12, 2024, Congratulations Dr. Chen!