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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…

Graduate Student Awards
Congratulations to Graduate Student Award Recipients!

Awards Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: Whit Weinmann, Greg Ellison, Jeevan Jankar Best Student Consultant Award: Huimin Hu Best Volunteer Student Consultant Award: Qian Zhang Best MS Student Award: Emily Brown Best Beginning PhD Student Award: Yongkai Chen Best Senior PhD Student Award: Jialin Yang, Mengrui Zhang, Hongzhi Wang The SEC Award: Huimin Cheng

Yiren Hou
Congratulations to Yiren Hou

Statistics Student Yiren Hou is a recipient of the CURO Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2022. This award supports undergraduates to pursue intensive and immersive faculty-mentored research over summer. Under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal and Dr. Gauri Datta, Yiren will utilize Bayesian approach to address data with extreme outliers, which is a challenge commonly faced by small area estimation. Small areas are subpopulations with…

Elise Karinshak
Congratulations, Elise Karinshak

Elise Karinshak, a junior majoring in Data Science and Marketing, was named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the United States for excellence in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Drs. Yan Jin, Jeff Hancock and Abhyuday Mandal were her mentors for this scholarship. Elise aspires to a research career at the intersection of data science and AI-mediated communication. As an undergraduate,…

Huimin Cheng
Congratulations to Huimin Cheng

Congratulations to Huimin Cheng (from the Big Data Analytics Lab) for being selected to receive the prestigious Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Assistantship for 2022-2023. An initiative of the SEC provosts, this award recognizes outstanding students and serves to prepare them for careers in higher education. This grant enables doctoral students to conduct research in support of their dissertations. Under the guidance of Drs.…

Monsur
Congratulations, Monsur!

Monsur Chowdhury is the recipient of the 2022 Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is made possible by a generous gift from the late Ted and Caroline Ridlehuber, friends and alumni of the college who make a life-changing impact on their students. Students are responsible for nominating faculty for the award. A committee of students (Franklin Ambassadors) chose the finalists. The letters that nominated Monsur…

Chen
Congratulations to Xianyan Chen!

Xianyan Chen is part of a Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant titled "Nanotechnology- and Machine Learning-Based Rapid Infectious Disease Diagnostics," led by Dr. Yiping Zhao of Physics. The project aims to combine nano-optics and machine-learning techniques to develop a rapid, portable, and cost-effective point-of-care method to detect viruses—such as SARS-CoV-2—and bacterial infections in patients. Funding will support one…

Lynne
Congratulations to Lynne Seymour!

Lynne Seymour is part of a Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant titled "Developing New Storm Design Criteria for Natural Hazards Planning Research and Practice," led by Dr. J. Scott Pippin with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The project aims to modernize precipitation and wind velocity data to improve public safety and foster the development of resilient infrastructure. Funding will support one student in Statistics from Spring…
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