Recent News

We are proud to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student Alex Jiang has received a Best Student Paper Award from the American Statistical Association. Alex Jiang is the recipient of the Best Paper…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,As we approach the end of another remarkable year, I am filled with gratitude and pride for the many milestones our department has achieved. This season offers a moment…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Winter 2025. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students of…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards a talented graduate student the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award recognizes outstanding performances…
We are very proud to announce Alex Luedtke as the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in the Department of Statistics.  This biannual award, which is student-led,…
We are proud to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student Medha Agarwal has won the student poster competition award, for her work on pretrained transformers and heat flows, at the 2024 ASA Statistical…
The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Anne Wagner, Ali Shojaie, and Zoraida Fernandez-Rico in their new positions!  Anne Wagner joined our department this summer as an…
Carlos Cinelli, Assistant Professor of Statistics, will give a virtual talk entitled “Sensitivity Analysis and Automation for Robust Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences”.  The talk will be…
The Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington are firmly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2024-2025, we are…
Zaid Harchaoui, professor of Statistics in the College of Arts & Sciences and adjunct professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering in the College of Engineering,…