Title: Impactful Collaborative Research: From rhBMP-2 to Ferabright™ Presented by Rongwei (Rochelle) Fu, Professor of Biostatistics, Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University Recipient of the 2025 UConn Statistics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award DATE: Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in the Noether […]

Title: The outperformance of machine learning by human intuition: resolving a paradox with unmeasured confounding Presented by  Aaron Sarvete, Assistant Professor; University of Massachusetts, Amherst DATE: Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Bio: Dr. Sarvet is an […]

Isabelle Perez, a PhD student in our department has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations!

Prof. Xiaojing Wang receives the 2026 Expanding Research Impact Award ! Congratulations!

Title: The Importance of Statistical Thinking in an AI-Augmented World Presented by Bhramar Mukherjee, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity, Yale University DATE: Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in […]

Title: Random-walk Debiased Contextual Preference Inference for Large Language Model Evaluation Presented by Yichi Zhang, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington DATE: Friday, April 3, 2026, 10:00 AM, AUST 313 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 9:30 AM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: Various large language models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, […]

Title: Stratification and Antithetic Mechanisms for Subsampling Presented by Dingyi Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences DATE: Wednesday, March 25, 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: Massive datasets present computational challenges for statistical estimation, making subsampling a critical tool for […]

Congratulations to Lucy Liu, for being selected to receive a 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award.

Title: Predicting Risk in Web3: From Crypto Social Signals to DeFi Lending Outcomes Presented by Oshani Seneviratne, Assistant Professor; Fernando Spadea, Ph. D Student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute DATE: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 3:30 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Coffee will be available at 3:00 PM in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Bio:Oshani Seneviratne Bio: […]

Title: Adversarial Classification Presented by Fabrizio Ruggeri, Senior Fellow, CNR-IMATI. DATE: Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 PM, AUST 434 Meeting Link: WebEx link Abstract: In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates in […]