Title: Statistical Inference of Reliability for Lifetime Delayed Degradation Process with Heterogeneity Presented by Zan Li, Assistant Professo, Nankai University. DATE: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: In industrial statistics, degradation models constitute a fundamental class […]

Title: From Public Data to Insight: CTData Makes Sense of Data Presented by Michelle Riordan-Nold, Executive Director of the Connecticut Data Collaborative (CTData). DATE: Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: Michelle Riordan-Nold, Executive Director of the […]

PhD student Shike Xu has been selected to receive the 2026 LiDS Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “A Bayesian stochastic order-based C-index to quantify the association between jointly modeled longitudinal biomarkers and survival data.” He will present his paper in the LiDS section sponsored topic-contributed session in JSM 2026.

The Statistics department thanks Tracy Burke for years of dedicated service! Wish you the best in the future!  

Congratulations to our undergraduate student Lucy Liu, for being selected to the University Scholar Program!

PhD student Alokesh Manna received the 2026 M.N. Das Memorial Young Scientist Award by the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA) for his research paper entitled “Bayesian joint selection of features and autoregressive lags in time series models: theory and applications in environmental and financial forecasting”. Congratulations!

Dr. Deepak Agarwal has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. He is Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn and a Distinguished Fellow at Fellows Fund. He will visit our department in Spring 2026. Congratulations!

Dr. Rongwei (Rochelle) Fu has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. She is Director of the Biostatistics Education Program and Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She will visit our department in Spring 2026. […]

Title: Cancer Human Disease Networks (cHDNs) via Deep Learning SEER-Medicare Presented by Shuangge Ma, Professor, Yale School of Public Health DATE:  Friday, December 5, 2025, 10:00 AM, AUST 247 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 9:30 AM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: Cancer patients often also suffer from other disease […]

PhD students Alokesh Manna & Xiaohui Yin receive poster awards at the 2025 DahShu Data Science Symposium. Alokesh Manna – ‘Point process Modeling of Accidentals in Forensic Shoeprint Data’ Xiaohui Yin – ‘The Blessing of Multiple Outcomes: Modeling with Incomplete Essential Covariates in Electronic Health Records’ Congratulations!