Prof. Ravishanker has been recognized a one of the “remarkable women in statistics, biostatistics, and data science.” Her picture is on the cover, with a very nice write up on page 30. Click here for more information: Link Congratulations, Nalini!
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Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA, Recipient of the 2024 UConn Statistics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award
Presented by Sudipto Banerjee, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles Recipient of the 2024 UConn Statistics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award Assessing Spatial Disparities in Disease Maps Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 in […]
Prof. Ming-Hui Chen elected as a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Prof. Ming-Hui Chen elected as a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering! Congratulations! Clink this link for more details.
Prof. Yao Zheng has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for New Frontiers in Time Series Analysis
Prof. Yao Zheng has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for New Frontiers in Time Series Analysis! Congratulations!
PhD student Alokesh Manna has been awarded a Student & Early Career Scholarship to attend the 2025 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics
PhD student Alokesh Manna has been awarded a Student & Early Career Scholarship to attend the 2025 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics! Congratulations!
PhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel Award
PhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel Award. Congratulations! For further details, please visit the meeting page.
Sydney Louit, ’ PhD student has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition.
Sydney Louit, ’ PhD student has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Congratulations! Sydney Louit’s paper “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model” has been selected as a winner of the SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Award winners are invited to present their research in a special topic-contributed session at JSM 2025 […]
Prof. Neil Spencer awarded Makuch Faculty Fund Award in Mathematical Sciences
We are delighted to announce that Neil Spencer, Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2025-December 2026). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation from Robert Makuch (’72 CLAS). Neil Spencer, PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in robust Bayesian inference, network science, […]
Paper of the Month: February 2025
Once a month during the academic year, the statistics faculty select a paper for our students to read and discuss. Papers are selected based on their impact or historical value, or because they contain useful techniques or results. How to annoy a journal editor – top 10 typesetting mistakes when submitting a paper in LaTeX […]
Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference
Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Recent Developments in the Techniques of Bayesian Paradigm, presented on January 6, 2025. Congratulations!