Assistant Professor Yao Zheng will serve as secretary/treasurer of the American Statistical Association’s Business and Economic Statistics Section for 2023-2024.
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UConn Department of Statistics – Alumni Survey
Alumni are invited to complete a survey in honor of the Department of Statistics 60th Anniversary Celebration in October, 2022.
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Luke Keele, University of Pennsylvania
“Combining Experimental and Population Data to Estimate Population Treatment Effects,” presented by Dr. Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statistics Colloquium: Yifei Sun, Columbia University
“Dynamic Risk Prediction Triggered by Intermediate events Using Survival Tree Ensembles,” presented by Yifei Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Kun Chen Elected 2022 ASA Fellow
Professor Kun Chen was elected as a 2022 Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a designation that has been a significant honor for nearly 100 years.
Statistics Colloquium: Chuan-Fa Tang, University of Texas at Dallas
“Taylor’s Law for Semivariance and Higher Moments of Heavy-Tailed Distributions,” presented by Chuan-Fa Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS) Named Truman Scholar
A double major in statistics and cognitive science, Soteriou is the 10th UConn student to have earned the prestigious honor.
Statistics Colloquium: Scott Linderman, Stanford University
“Point Process Models for Sequence Detection in Neural Spike Trains,” presented by Scott Linderman, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Jun Yan Named Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Profesor Yan was recognized for demonstrating distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field.
Bin Zou Receives 2022 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award
Professor Zou was recognized for excellence in research and creativity for early-career faculty members.